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opened “when nothing was here."
"When Union Centre opened, it opened
up 3,000 acres for commercial development and the different sequences of
interchanges," Hinson says. It was the
first new I-75 interchange in Southwest
Ohio in more than 25 years.
"The next big spoke of commercial
development is going to be in Liberty
Township,” he says. “To the outside world,
Liberty and West Chester are going to
flow together. The two townships almost
mirror each other."
BUSINESS OASIS AMID ECONOMIC DESERT:
METROPLEX THRIVES BETWEEN DAYTON & CINCY
By Bill Ferguson Jr.
Call it the Cincinnati Metroplex, Pill Hill
North, the I-75 Growth Corridor, Healthcare Highway or the 275-to-675 Corridor.
Iust take a look.
1 IT'S A BUSINESS OASIS
The area bounding Interstate 75 from the
I-275 beltway north of Cincinnati to the
I-675 beltway south ofDayton is exploding
with growth. It's a business oasis amid a
national economic desert. It starts in West
Chester and Liberty townships, two Butler
County communities just north of I-275,
and stretches north.
2 THREE INTERCHANGES, TWO
TOWNSHIPS, 12 YEARS
The opening of three I-75 interchanges
in the two townships in a 12-year period
threw open the door for development of
what once was farmland. Lots of it.
Those three interchanges:
~ Union Centre Boulevard (Exit 19),
opened in 1997.
- Liberty Way (Exit 24A), 2009.
- Butler County Veterans Highway (Exit
24B; also known as Ohio 129), 1999.
Add to those the 2010 opening of the
Austin Boulevard interchange (Exit 41)
in southern Montgomery County just
south of I-675, and the line between the
Cincinnati and Dayton metro areas is
much more blurry. Of the roughly 115
I-75 interchanges in Ohio, 10 are located
between I-275 and I-675.
3 LIBERTY AND WEST CHESTER FLOW
TOGETHER, MIRROR EACH OTHER
Ioe Hinson, president and CEO of the
West Chester-Liberty Chamber Alliance,
started there just as the area started
booming with businesses. He began his
job of supporting business growth in 1998,
just after the Union Centre interchange
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That next big spoke is Liberty Way, which
will be home to a 64-acre, 1.3 millionsquare-foot mega-center being dubbed
the next Easton, modeled after the
outdoor shopping center in Columbus.
Steiner+Associates, the Columbus-based
developer of Easton, The Greene in Dayton and Newport on the Levee in Northern
Kentucky, started checking out the area
in 2008, according to Caroline McKinney, economic development director for
Liberty Township.
When the economywent south, Steiner
backed away but has since returned and
plans a groundbreaking next year for the
center, to be named Liberty Town Square,
McKinney says. Retail will fill more than
half of the Square, with office space, residential housing and a hotel making up the
rest. The hope is a spring 2015 opening.
“The size and scope are quite large,"
McKinney says.
“For us, this is exciting. For the township,
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I-75 interchanges have led to an explosion
of economic development. The township's
mix is about 60 percent commercial and
4opercent residential/agriculture.
6 WEST CHESTER'S STRENGTH:
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economic development successes to
our infrastructure," says Iudi Boyko,
township administrator since 2005.
"Interstate 75 is the spine, and from the
interstate, the township was able to
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pockets of developable areas."
Boyko started with the township in 1992,
when “it was probably about 5o percent
developed." So, like Hinson, she has seen
a lot of change.
“West Chester is very proud of the
evolution from what typically and predominantly had been a manufacturing/
warehouse type of host back in the early
'9os," she says. “Our diversity, in terms of
economic development, now ranges from
retail to finance to insurance to real estate
to medical, so we've hit every sector."
West Chester has even dubbed its three
interchanges Downtown (Union Centre),
Midtown (Cincinnati-Dayton Road) and
Uptown (Tylersville Road), giving the
township a city feel.
this matches perfectly what our vision was
for this area." In 2006, the township put
together a comprehensive land-use plan
and hired McKinney. What came from the 7 HEALTHCARE HIGHWAY — BRINGING
planning process was that “Liberty Town- SERVICES TO GROWING POPULATION
ship needed a central gathering place for Early on, the health-care industry took
its residents, as well as more amenities."
note of the coming population explosion
between Cincinnati and Dayton.
5 PERFECT MIX OF RESIDENTIAL,
Hinson says that in the late '9os, Iohn
AGRICULTURE AND 3 PERCENT BUSINESS
Gillespie, then with UC Physicians, started
The project is indeed a big deal for Lib- showing how the increasing population
erty Township. Right now, the township is was going to be underserved by health
about 50 percent built out, with residential providers.
and agriculture making up 97 percent of
Now, a number of large health-care
the area and businesses taking the other providers do business in the two town3 percent.
ships, including West Chester Hospital,
“We're always going to be more residen- Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Wellington
tial," McKinney says. “Our job now is to Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, UC
bring on that commercial development Physicians, Cincinnati Children's Hospital
into some strategic corridors that make Medical Center-Liberty Campus, Kettering
the most sense because we have a lot of Physician Network, The Christ Hospital
neighborhoods and residents that come Outpatient Center and Mercy Health
first."
Center at Liberty Falls. Not too far up the
If Liberty is more of a bedroom com- road is Atrium Medical Center at Exit 32
munity, West Chester Township will give in Middletown.
residents plenty ofplaces to work. Its three
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Hinson says. That's where the monikers
Health Care Highway and Pill Hill North
came from — the latter being a play on
what is known as Pill Hill in Cincinnati,
where a cluster of hospitals sits near the
University of Cincinnati in the Clifton area.
Providers keep coming. Boyko notes
that Louisville-based Springstone just
announced a $10 million mental-health
facility along Union Centre Boulevard that
will provide 100 jobs.
The Kettering Physician Network, part
of the Kettering Health Network, is an
example of a Dayton-area business moving south to fill the health-care needs of
the I-75 corridor. The physician network
opened Liberty Pointe Primary Care earlier
this year near the Butler County Veterans
Highway exit.
"We take into consideration a number of
factors, including population growth and
increases in health issues, in a particular
community," says Iulie Hellings, the network's director of operations.
"While Kettering Health Network is new
to Liberty Township, we are no stranger to
Butler County. Fort Hamilton Hospital has
been serving residents in Hamilton and
throughout Butler County for generations,
and we are proud to have welcomed the
hospital into our network in 2o1o."
8 GOOD PAY, eooo EDUCATION
Communities love those kinds of jobs.
Most are high-paying, requiring higher
education levels. They draw people to
live near their workplaces, which leads to
higher-end neighborhoods and a strong
tax base. Liberty Township's median
household income is $96,943, and West
Chester's is $80,268, according to the latest
U.S. Census estimates.
9 GLOBAL PRESENCE: FIVE OF
SOUTHWEST OHIO'S TOP 10 EMPLOYERS
Five of the top 1o employers in
Southwest Ohio have a presence in
West Chester: Fifth Third Bank, Kroger,
Procter & Gamble, UC Health and the
University of Cincinnati, as well as
major employers GE Aviation and AK
Steel, whose corporate headquarters is
there.
"The days of building a community with
manufacturers up and down the corridor
are over," Hinson says. “Ifyou're thinking
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10 LIFETIME OF LEARNING
Education is also a big component of the
growth equation in the area. Lakota Local Schools, the K-12 system that covers
almost all of West Chester and Liberty,
has garnered the highest ranking available — Excellent and then Excellent with
Distinction — on the Ohio School Report
Cards for the past 1o years. The district is
the seve_nth-largest of the 612 districts in
the state.
“To be able to boast of a school district
that has the reputation and caliber of
Lakota is instrumental inbeing able to
-market your community for economic
development purposes," Boyko says.
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At the postsecondary level, colleges
have stepped into the corridor in a big
way. Miami University has its Voice of
America (VOA) Learning Center, while
Xavier University, Indiana Wesleyan
University, Hondros College of Nursing,
Antonelli College and University of
Phoenix all provide adults with a
plethora of educational paths.
Further, Butler Technology and Career
Development Schools also provides 11thand 12th-graders with alternative programs that prepare the students for either
post-high school careers or college. It also
offers adult-education classes and courses.
Hinson and Boyko point to Butler Tech's
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planned bioscience academy as an example of education stepping up to help
business.
“It will attract businesses of that nature
because they know they will get a trained
workforce," Hinson says.
SMALL-BUSINESS SUCCESS
Those types ofbusinesses also lead to a rise
in other sectors: restaurants, banks, hotels,
retail and entertainment, for instance.
Kevin Molony, principal partner of the
firm that franchises the Mellow Mushroom
pizza restaurants in Greater Cincinnati, is
opening his second eatery along Union
Centre Boulevard.
"We chose West Chester as the first
Cincinnati location because of the great
demographics, the great
corporate presence and
the good traffic counts
in the area," he says. "It's
just a very vibrant mix
of businesses there. The
office occupancy is high,
you have P&G nearby, GE
Aviation nearby. There's
a lot of successful, highquality restaurants."
Mellow Mushroom, an
Atlanta-based franchiser
founded in 1974, has about
145 restaurants, mostly
in the Southeast. Molony,
who helped develop the
Five Seasons Sports Clubs
in the Midwest with Corporex founder and
chairman Bill Butler, opened his first Mellow Mushroom in Wilder, Ky., two years ago.
He describes it as “craft pizza (baked on
a stone) and craft beer — and it's a funky
environment that's very family-friendly."
PetPeople, which prides itself on animal
nutrition, is opening its third Cincinnatiarea store, and 12th overall, this fall in
West Chester. Terri Montigny, marketing
manager, says the Hilliard, Ohio-based
family- owned company looks “for a space
that is close to residential but also with
easy access. The community has been
great. We have quite a few customers
from West Chester who shop at our other
locations."
The new PetPeople store will have "the
biggest dog wash in the company. We
provide the water, the towels and shampoo — you just have to bring in your dog."
Fresh Market is opening its third
Cincinnati-area store at Voice ofAmerica
Centre off Tylersville Road.
"We are always on the lookout for markets
where shoppers appreciate high-quality
food and outstanding customer service,
and West Chester is just such a place," says
Rob Koch, the company's senior director
of real estate.
The larger employers get a lot of attention, but it's those smaller enterprises
that are the lifeblood of the community.
The townships have more than 3,000
businesses, Hinson says, and the West
Chester-Liberty Chamber Alliance has
doubled its membership in the past 1o
years to almost 800 members. He says
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As West Chester and Liberty continue to fill
space alongside I-75, the focus moves to the
north. Already, planners have a vision for
another interchange, possibly at Millikin
Road in Liberty Township. McKinney says
it's part ofthe master plan but probably “a
good 1o years out."
Development continues at interchanges
at Ohio 63 (Monroe), Ohio 122 (Middletown), Ohio 123 and Ohio 73 (near Franklin
and Springboro), and is accelerating at
Austin Boulevard.
“We have a lot of undeveloped land east
of I-75, and there's interest in all of it," says
Denise Hamet, economic development
director of Middletown.
All of this business-building brings
Cincinnati and Dayton closer together -—
not the city boundaries, but certainly the
mentality of the residents in between. The
populations of West Chester and Liberty
are up about 1o times from 1960.
“The two cities really are coming together," McKinney says. ”No longer are
you seeing this dead space in between,
especially now that Austin (Boulevard
interchange) has popped up."
Boyko adds: “West Chester sees Cincinnati and Dayton as assets to our growth
and development, not competitors. West
Exit Here for Growth
A LOOK, INTERCHANGE BY INTERCHANGE, AT INTERSTATE 75
FROM I-275 TO I-675 AND THE RESULTING GROWTH
14' EXIT 16A AND EXIT 16B
(I-275 East to I-71 and Columbus, and I-275 West to
I-74 and Indianapolis)
l5 EXIT 19 (UNION CENTRE
BOULEVARD)
The first I-75 interchange in more than 20 years in
Southwest Ohio is home to more than two dozen
restaurants offeringjust about any kind of fare diners
would want — from the most popular fast-food outlets
to casual eateries to finer dining. Need a place to stay?
A half-dozen hotels are available.
This interchange, West Chester's Downtown, also has
the Streets of West Chester Shopping Center, which
includes Rave Motion Pictures, Barnes 81 Noble, the
Village at the Streets of West Chester and the future
Ann Taylor Loft. Swedish retailer IKEA opened one of
its 38 U.S. stores in 2008.
Also here: Fortune 500 company AK Steel moved its
headquarters from Middletown in 2007; aircraft-engine
manufacturer GE Aviation, whose headquarters isjust
down the highway in Evendale, has an office operation
with 2,000 employees; First Financial Bank opened
regional corporate offices; and United Healthcare
consolidated three offices from Cincinnati and Dayton
in Z001.
Schools include Lakota West High School, Antonelli
College, Indiana Wesleyan University Education Center
and University of Phoenix Cincinnati. Numerous other
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Chester has different amenities, different
lifestyles, different community assets
to market than Cincinnati or Dayton. I
believe that the benefit comes in having
the uniqueness of both" suburban and
city living.
Hameti says Middletown is constantly
meeting with economic development
people and chambers of commerce from
Cincinnati to Dayton.
"What will happen in the next five years
is thatwe'll be included more in both communities," she says.
So in the future — and it could be sooner
than we think — maybe the I-75 corridor
from I-275 to I-675 will get a new name.
Cincidayton or Daytonnati, perhaps? I
18 EXIT 24A (LIBERTY WAY)
The newest I-75 interchange provides access to
businesses such as Air-Tite Home Products, Cincinnati
Enquirer north offices, CVS, Pump It Up, Cincinnati
Stoneworks, Cabling Specialist and the Web Extreme
Entertainment.
businesses such as banks, real estate offices, medical
offices, fitness clubs, car dealerships and repair shops,
and manufacturers are located here.
The big news for this exit is a planned groundbreaking
next spring for Liberty Town Square, modeled after
Easton in Columbus. The center will be the size of 22‘/z
football fields and is set to open in the spring of 2015.
16 EXIT 21 (CINCINNATI-DAYTON ROAD)
19 EXIT 24B (BUTLER COUNTY
West Chester's Midtown exit is less developed but still
has fast food and casual dining, a hotel, a Walmart
Supercenter, West Chester Fitworks and many
residential apartment complexes. Butler Technology
and Career Development Schools plans to build a Life
Sciences Learning Academy.
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17 EXIT 22 (TYLERSVILLE ROAD)
This is West Chester's Uptown. Like Union Centre, it's
another great place to eat with more than two dozen
restaurants. It's also a great place to shop, with many of
the major big-box retailers located here: Home Depot,
Kohl's, Kroger, Lowe's Home Improvement, Meijer,
Michaels, PetSmart, Target and T.J. Maxx, for instance.
The Voice of America Centre includes the Aveda
Fredric's Institute and Fresh Market.
It's also a medical mecca, led by West Chester
Hospital and UC Physicians, which spawn other doctors’
practices, urgent care, a dialysis clinic and dental
offices. Other professional services include many banks,
real-estate offices, salons, fitness gyms and car-repair
centers. Schools: Miami University Voice of America
Learning Center and Hondros College of Nursing.
EnterTRAlNment Junction, a great place for kids (and
adult train lovers), provides a good stop for travelers.
Although this exit originally was designed to give drivers
easy access to Hamilton, the first exit after you get on
the highway takes you to Cincinnati Children's Medical
Center Liberty Campus, one of the first highly visible
landmarks along I-75 in Liberty Township.
The first Kroger Marketplace concept store in Greater
Cincinnati opened in 2006 and anchors Liberty Commons
Retail Center, which contains about 20 smaller businesses.
Also here is Liberty Commons Medical Center, with a
kidney center and other doctors’ offices, and Christ
Hospital plans to take the entire second floor later this
year. Lakota East High School is also close to this exit.
20 EXIT Z9 (OHIO ROUTE 63)
The Monroe exit is somewhat of a tourist attraction.
Cincinnati Premium Outlets opened in 2009. The
50-acre Traders World brings in 15,000 to 20,000
shoppers each weekend to its many buildings, offering
all kinds of products, food and entertainment. Treasure
Aisles, just across I-75 from Traders World, attracts a
lot of the same crowd and bills itself as "The Bargain
Hunters’ Paradise."
A few restaurants, a couple of hotels, Joe Morgan
Honda (yes, the former Red) and a giant Home Depot
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Sunstar Engineering Americas,
Walther Engineering, Waytek Corp. and MTP are among
the industrial/construction businesses.
Pilot Travel Center and ADESA Cincinnati/Dayton
auto auctions occupy much of the northeast section
of the interchange. The exit also includes several fast
food restaurants and Kingdom Sports Center.
distribution center also dot the landscape. Solid Rock
Church, home of the "Touchdown Jesus" statue that
was destroyed by a lightning strike, is installing a 32-by52-foot full-bodied Jesus replacement that some have
already begun to call it "Hug Me, Jesus." And, yes, the
makers say it's fireproof.
Z1 EXIT 32 (OHIO 122)
Z3 EXIT as (OHIO 73>
Towne Mall (to the west) and Atrium Medical Center
(to the east) anchor the two sides of this Middletown
exit, which also has about 10 fast food and casual dining
restaurants and seven hotels. There's lots of retail, too:
CVS, Goodwill, Kroger, Lowe's Home Improvement, Sears,
Staples, Target and Walmart Supercenter, to name some.
The newest projects include an 87-room Hampton
Inn, along with the Baxter Health Care Bio-Life facility.
There's also a new YMCA, a silver LEED-certified
Veterans Administration Outpatient Clinic and the new
Greentree Health Science Academy Campus.
This exit, too, leads to Franklin (to the west) and
Springboro (to the east), and is home to a much
broader mix of businesses than Exit 36. It still has a
large complement of industrial/construction businesses,
such as Advanced Engineering Solutions, Buckeye
Fabricating, Burrows Paper Corp., Cincinnati Belting, DI
Communication Systems/Precision Industries, Faurecia,
Ferco Tech Corp., Gayston Corp., Huhtamaki Inc., Koehlke,
NC Works, Ohio-Kentucky Steel Corp., Paper Systems,
Restaurant Parts and More, Sunnex, Valued Relationships
Inc. and Voelker Controls Co., and includes Heritage
Business Park. Retail includes Midway Shopping Plaza,
Kmart, Kroger, Tractor Supply Co., Walgreens and
Walmart Supercenter.
About a dozen fast food and casual dining restaurants
and a couple of hotels give travelers a place to stop. The
Dayton Daily News’ printing plant is highly visible from
Z2 EXIT as (OHIO 123)
This interchange, which leads to Franklin (to the west),
is heavily industrial. Franklin Business Park, Jaygee
Industrial Park and Schumacher-Franklin Interstate
Park are all located here. R.L. Drake, Tech-Way
Industries, Greenpoint Metals, Millennium Metals,
I-75. The Gymnastics Training Center of Ohio and Miami
Jacobs Career College are here, along with a number of
banks, auto parts stores and auto service centers, real
estate firms and a few medical offices. Friesinger's Fine
Chocolates and La Comedia Dinner Theatre can also
be found here.
Z4 EXIT 41 (AUSTIN BOULEVARD)‘
The newest interchange in the area is ready for additional
development. Dayton-Wright Brothers Airport is located
in the southeast quadrant of the exit. The 142-acre
Austin Landing is under construction in the northeast
quadrant, with retailer Kohl's there and Hilton Garden
and Kroger opening soon.
It's also a mini high-tech/industrial area, with Alien
Technology Corp., Invotec Engineering, Kingscote
Chemicals, SARCOM Inc., SourceLink, Teradata and
Yaskawa Motoman Robotics with operations. Dayton
Children's Outpatient Care Center operates here, as
well as several fitness centers such as Dayton Squash
Center, South Regency Tennis Center and YMCA of
Greater Dayton.
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4'2 Dorothy Lane Market, the iconic Dayton grocer, puts its more than 60
years of service to good use in its Springboro store,
43 Dayton Children's Hospital has reached out to the south with its Outpatient
and Urgent Care centers in Springboro.
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2.6 IKEA, the Swedish home furnishings giant, makes Union Centre location its
first store in the Tristate and only the third in the Midwest after Chicago and Detroit.
2.7 Frontgate is one of the country's top upscale home furnishing providers
through its catalog and online sales division. West Chester is home to its corporate
headquarters, national distribution warehouse and outlet store, which attracts
shoppers from around the country.
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4'4‘ Heather's Coffee and Café in downtown Springboro is a homey place for
locals to meet friends, share meals and root for sports teams.
45 Soin International, the multinational holding company founder by Raj
Soin, has consolidated its Dayton area headquarters in Beavercreek, the booming
I-675 suburb.
4'6 The Fitton Center for Creative Arts in downtown Hamilton is art for
the people and by the people. It offers exhibits and events, but also programs for
people to make their own creations.
28 Butler Tech is the largest career and technical school in Ohio.
2.9 Kemba Credit Union, which traces its beginnings to the Kroger Employees
Mutual Benefit Association, moved its corporate headquarters to Union Centre
Boulevard.
30 Butler County Metroparks manages more than 3,000 acres of land
throughout the county.
4'7 The idea behind Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park & Museum seems like
something that would be hatched in New York or San Francisco, but Harry Wilks
decided a 265-acre plot in Hamilton along the Great Miami River would dojust fine.
4'8 Wetherington Golf and County Club is well known for its golf course
and dining, but it's really the place where West Chester does business. U.S. House
Speaker John Boehner, an avid golfer, lives nearby.
31 In just three years, the Crazy Cardboard Regatta at Voice of America
Park has become the must-see (or participate) event of the summer as well as a
key fundraiser for Butler County Metroparks.
4'9 GE Aviation, whose Evendale footprint can't be missed along I-75 north of
Cincinnati, is also one of the largest employers in Butler County with more than
32. Jag's Steak & Seafood is the go-to restaurant at Union Centre, whether
it's for a special meal from its eclectic menu created by chef Michelle Brown or
simply schmoozing with clients in one of six dining rooms.
50 Dayton-Wright Brothers Airport is perfectly situated off Exit 41 near
the Austin Landing development. It serves corporate and personal aircraft and
houses a museum dedicated to the history of the Wright Brothers.
33 Butler County United Way focuses on helping young people become
successful adults and adults become self-sufficient.
5 I Teradata, the NCR spinoff that is one of the world's leading data warehousing
and analytics companies, is headquartered at Austin Landing.
3 4' UC Health made the investment to build West Chester Hospital into a full-
52. RG Properties is the developer of Austin Landing, the 142-acre mixeduse property that has its own I-75 interchange (Exit 41), corporate headquarters,
housing, entertainment and restaurants.
service, state-of-the-art facility so residents wouldn't have to drive into Cincinnati.
35 Cincinnati Children's Hospital Liberty Campus has extended the
renowned medical center's reach into one of the state's fastest growing regions.
36 Atrium Hospital, near the intersection of I-75 and State Route 122 in
Middletown, is affiliated with Dayton's Miami Valley Hospital.
37 Otterbein Skilled Nursing & Rehab Neighborhood is on the campus of
Atrium Medical Center in Middletown and is affiliated with Otterbein Retirement
Lifestyle Community in Lebanon.
1,500 workers.
53 The Trenton Brewery of MiIIerCoors is one of the company's most modern
facilities. The location's 560 employees brew 11 million barrels of beer each year.
54 Champion Window anchors the south end of the I-75 corridor from its
headquarters and factory and showroom. In 2000, the company was named the
country's largest replacement window, siding and patio room company.
55 BAE Systems, the global defense, aerospace and security giant, manufactures
armored vehicles in its Fairfield plant where it employs about 1,000 people.
3 8 When Cincinnati Premium Outlets opened at the intersection of State
Route 63 in Monroe, bargain shoppers no longer needed to drive to Washington
Court House or Lexington.
56 Amylin Pharmaceuticals, which was recently bought by Bristol-Myers
Squibb, manufactures the diabetes drug Bydureon at its facility on Trade Port Drive.
39 Miami University's Voice of America Learning Center brings the school
to the people, complementing the courses available at the regional campuses in
Middletown and Hamilton.
5 7 Cohen, one of the largest metal recycling companies in the country, likes to
say that it was "green when the world was black and white." That philosophy has
paid dividends in today's environment.
4'0 Four Bridges Country Club features a Robert E. Cupp designed golf
course, tennis facilities, three swimming pools and a fitness center. A wine cellar,
dining room and lounge complete the picture.
4']. Planes Companies has grown from one family and a truck to a modern
moving and storage business with five locations, 200 trucks and 400 employees.
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5 8 Chris Worrell set up the West Chester law office of Graydon Head before
it was common practice for firms to do that. He died in March.
59 Joe Hinson has made the West Chester * Liberty Chamber Alliance the
"Chamber of Choice" along the I-75 corridor.
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60 Christine Mataslc, president of the Liberty Township trustees, has been
closely involved with transportation and development issues, and is a board
member of OKI.
68 Pat McNab, senior director of Miami University's Corporate and Community
Institute at its regional campuses, works to establish partnerships that help students
findjobs and provide local employers with skilled workers.
6 J. Craig Rambo is the chairman of McGilI Smith Punshon, the architectural and
engineering company responsible for award-winning projects such as GE Aviation
offices at North Pointe at Union Centre and West Chester Baseball Complex at
Beckett Park.
69 Rich Arnold, the president ofthe Sharonville Chamber of Commerce, leads
a growing membership and is bringing business to the city near the intersection
of I-75 and I-27$.
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62. Larry Schumacher, president of Schumacher Dugan Construction, has more
than 50 years in commercial/industrial construction and real estate development.
70 James Wainscott has guided AK Steel, Butler County's only Fortune 500
headquarters, back to stability. The company is the county's second-largest employer
with more than 3,000 workers.
63 Tom Urban, the former president of Mercy Health, is the driving force
behind the organization's Fairfield Hospital, one ofthe leading healthcare providers
7 1 Judi Boyko, West Chester Township administrator since 2005, has a strong
track record in attracting business and events.
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64' Caroline McKinney, the Liberty Township Economic Development Director,
is at the center of the Liberty Town Square, a $300 million project at Liberty Way
and I-75 that is called the biggest development in Butler County.
65 Lee Wong, a retired U.S. Army veteran, brings military discipline and energy
to his role as vice president of the West Chester Township Board of Trustees.
72 Jim Kleingers is the head Kleingers & Associates, the civil engineering and
land survey company that is intimately involved in many of the building projects
along the corridor.
73 Keith Richburg is one of Fifth Third Bank's key executives in the West
Chester—Liberty Township area, serving on the board of the Chamber alliance.
66 Executive director Carol Hughes is the driving force behind the Springboro
Chamber of Commerce, an influential business group in a thriving area.
74' Deborah Brenneman, a lawyer with Thompson Hine, is active in the West
Chester-Liberty Chamber Alliance and was a finalist for Cincy Magazine's Athena
Award in 2011.
67 John Limbert, CEO of National Bank and Trust, relies upon small-town
customer service to keep the 10-branch operation profitable against its much
larger competitors.
75 Bill Trlick, president of the Chamber of Commerce Serving Middletown,
Monroe and Trenton, is responsible for a key stretch ofthe corridor that has seen
a development boom and is expecting even more.
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