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2/23/06 ---- NEWS RELEASE

2004 Butler County Ohio Growth Numbers

Record Number of New Jobs Created in Butler County, Ohio in 2005.

 Brian Coughlin, Director
(513) 785-5850 

Hamilton, OH, February 23, 2006 ­­­­-- The Butler County Board of Commissioners and the Butler County Alliance, a public/private economic development partnership, announced today that Butler County experienced record growth in job creation, development investment, and leased and sold square footage in 2005. 

The 63 new construction and expansion projects in Butler County created 3,849 new jobs in 2005, a 23.6% increase over the 3,115 new jobs created in 2004; saw new investment in real estate and personal property increase 65.7% to $605,018,800 from $365,122,309 in 2004; and manufacturing, office, and commercial space leased or sold in Butler County doubled from 3,723,387 sq. ft. last year to 7,228,758 sq. ft. in 2005.  (These figures do not include new retail development which is not traditionally included in economic development reporting.) 

"While some communities still struggle with layoffs, plant closings, and job outsourcing, Butler County has been blessed with a strong economy and significant business expansion even during difficult times," said Butler County Board of Commissioners president Greg Jolivette.  “The creation of almost 4,000 new jobs is very gratifying and is a testament to the health of the County’s economy.” 

Healthcare growth continued to thrive in Butler County with the announcements in 2005 of the construction of new facilities for the Health Alliance in West Chester and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Liberty Township that combined will create approximately 1,225 new jobs with an investment of $280 million.  A total of 36% of the new jobs created in 2005 were in healthcare or biomedicine.  Equally exciting, was the announcement in late December that Amylin Pharmaceuticals of San Diego will establish a $150 million biomedical manufacturing facility in West Chester to manufacture a long-acting release treatment for type 2 diabetes. 

“Amylin will create more than 200 new jobs during Phase I and II of the project with an average, annual salary of over $52,000 per employee,” said Commissioner Mike Fox.  “This puts Butler County on the biomedical map and will provide the kind of well paying, high tech jobs that are important for Butler County’s continued growth toward a truly knowledge-based economy.” 

Proving that there is life after a plant closing, the former Fisher Body plant in Fairfield, closed by General Motors in 1988, will be redeveloped by the First Highland Company of Boston. 

“The redevelopment of the 1.2 million sq. ft. former Fisher Body building into a multi-tenant manufacturing and distribution facility and the construction new outbuildings on the adjacent vacant land represents a potential investment of $32 million,” said Butler County Commissioner Chuck Furmon.  “What has been an eyesore will now be redeveloped and re-skinned to become the model and standard for brownfield development in southwest Ohio.”   

Manufacturing in Butler County continues to be strong.  High tech manufacturer Pole/Zero will add 130 new jobs at their West Chester facility with a $5.4 million plant expansion while Monroe’s Precision Packaging is going forward with a $10 million plant expansion that will add 158 new jobs to its workforce.

And, warehouse distribution and supply chain logistics received an unexpected boost from Dell in West Chester where the computer and peripherals maker increased its workforce by 400 new jobs in 2005 bringing total employment at its logistics facility to 1,000.  In addition, athletic apparel manufacturer SanMar invested $25 million for a new distribution facility in West Chester that will create 150 new jobs and retain 200 existing jobs in the region.

Butler County, Ohio, located between the Cincinnati and Dayton metro areas in southwest Ohio, is at the center of a population and market of 2.8 million people.  Butler County has business-oriented government officials; an excellent availability of reasonably priced office, commercial, and industrial space; a productive, knowledge-based workforce; close proximity to interstates I-75, I-71, I-74, and I-70; affordable Midwest housing; and world-class air service from two international airports making it an unsurpassed community in which to conduct business.

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3/23/05 ---- NEWS RELEASE

 

Contact:    Brian Coughlin, Director
                   (513) 785-5850 

2004 Job Growth and Investment in Butler County, Ohio More than Doubles the Combined Total Growth for the Previous Two Years.

Hamilton, OH, March 23, 2005 ­­­­-- The Butler County Board of Commissioners and the Butler County Alliance, a public/private economic development partnership, announced today that the County experienced record growth in 2004. 

"Butler County’s growth in 2004 outpaced the combined growth of both 2002 and 2003 in jobs created; jobs retained; and total investment in industrial, commercial, and retail economic development projects," said Butler County Alliance Chairman Joe Kramer, Executive Vice President of Henkle Schueler & Associates.

The 45 new construction and expansion projects in Butler County created 3,115 new jobs in 2004 versus a combined 2,108 new jobs in 2002 and 2003; retained a total of 6,123 existing jobs in 2004 compared to 369 jobs retained in 2002 – 2003; and saw $365,122,309 of new investment in real estate and personal property versus $240,280,750 in new investment for 2002 – 2003.  In addition, 3,723,387 sq. ft. of manufacturing, office, and commercial space was leased or sold in 2004 in Butler County as compared to 1,538,751 sq. ft. in 2003, and 3,034,344 sq. ft. in 2002. 

"While many parts of the country are struggling to recover from the recent recession and the loss of manufacturing jobs it caused, over 700 new manufacturing jobs were created in Butler County in 2004," said Butler County Board of Commissioners President Chuck Furmon.  Furmon said that even during the recession years of 2002 and 2003 half of the more than 2,100 new jobs created in Butler County were in the manufacturing sector. 

Examples include a $25.7 million expansion at Pacific Manufacturing in Fairfield that will add 250 new jobs at this Toyota supplier; the expansion of two O'Gara Hess & Eisenhardt plants that will create 200 new jobs at its West Chester plant and 60 at its Fairfield facility; a $7 million expansion project in Monroe at Dayton Technologies that will add 45 new jobs and retain 345 positions in 550, 000 sq. ft. of additional manufacturing space; and a $5.2 million expansion at Middletown's Granger Plastics that will create 25 new jobs and retain 30 existing jobs. 

A major $88 million, 500,000 sq. ft. expansion at Cincinnati Financial Corporation's headquarters office in Fairfield will create 500 new jobs and retain 2,923 current positions as the company reinforces its ties and commitment to the community and the county.  Another 100,000 sq. ft. of new office space at Beckette Towne Center in West Chester will create 50 new jobs with an investment of $12 million. 

In distribution, warehousing, and logistics 2,090,131 sq. ft. of space was either leased or sold in Butler County during 2004.  In West Chester, Dell leased 427,926 sq. ft. facility that will employ 665 with a project cost of $31 million.  Also in West Chester, Jack of All Games hired 50 new employees and expanded it's facility by an additional 400,000 sq. ft. at a project cost of $17.3 million.  And, Presto Foods moved from outside the region to locate in an 86,200 sq. ft. distribution facility in Monroe creating 80 new jobs. 

Hospital expansion and growth also continued to thrive in Butler County.  Ft. Hamilton Hospital in Hamilton is completing an $18 million, 43,000 sq. ft. expansion that will add 185 jobs to the hospital's staff and Fairfield's Mercy Hospital bio-medical expansion will cost $4.5 million, add 100,000 sq. ft. to the hospital, and create 100 new jobs.

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