New Albany’s Magnetic Status

Written by Innovate New Albany@InnovateNA14 years ago

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The Columbus Dispatch’s Sunday edition featured New Albany prominently on the cover of its business page touting our community’s quality of life, infrastructure and schools as a “magnet for corporate expansion.”

Highlights include impressive statistics and quotes:

• 2,809 jobs were attracted to New Albany since 2009, including 1,941 of which were new to the state of Ohio
• Tammy Troilo-Krings, CEO of TS24, notes that her new office space in New Albany has resulted in an “8% productivity boost and a greater pool of quality applicants.”
• Ed McMahon, senior resident fellow with the Washington-based Urban Land Institute explains why New Albany has been successful. “They actually have a plan. You have easy land assembly, good schools. A lot of communities are more haphazard.”
• Michael Marlowe, president of Bluemile says of New Albany, “If you’re entrepreneurial and creative, you want to be in a place where you have the chance for serendipity. And that’s what we have by being there.”

To read the entire article, visit the Columbus Dispatch.

Innovate New Albany, the city’s incubator for technology startups, entrepreneurs and small businesses, features 16,000 square feet of space within the New Albany Business Park’s Signature Office Building, 8000 Walton Parkway.