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Economic Development • Location • Land • Buildings • Workforce • Education • Incentives • Transportation • Southwest Ohio • Quality of Life
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All information provided on the Butler County Alliance Economic Development official web site is provided for information purposes only. Although every reasonable effort is made to present current and accurate information, Butler County Alliance makes no guarantees of any kind. Information on this web site is subject to change without prior notice.
Any links to external web sites and/or non-Butler County Alliance Economic Development information provided on Butler County Alliance Economic Development web pages are provided as a courtesy. They should not be construed as an endorsement by Butler County Alliance Economic Development of the content or views of the linked materials.
In no event shall Butler County Alliance Economic Development be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any such content or services available on or through the Butler County Alliance Economic Development web site.
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INTERSTATES: Butler County
has 11 interchanges adjacent to major interstate
highways including I-75, I-71, and I-74 and is 30 miles
south of I-70.
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As the primary method of transportation of
manufactured goods, both in Ohio and the U.S., the southwest Ohio
region possess an important advantage by serving a market with approximately 130 million people. Butler County's outstanding access to the interstate highway system and the railroads serving the region provide access to the Ohio River and Great Lake ports. The Port of Cincinnati is the fifth largest U.S. inland port; 53.2 million tons pass annually through Cincinnati on to the Ohio River.
CERTIFIED ROAD MILEAGE
Source: Butler County Engineers Office
CERTIFIED ROAD MILEAGE BY TOWNSHIP
Source: Butler County Engineers Office
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Butler County itself
experienced record growth in 2004, outpacing 2002 and 2003 combined
in terms of jobs created, jobs retained, and total investment in
industrial, commercial, and retail economic development projects.
While most areas in the country are still trying to recover from the
recession and the loss of manufacturing jobs it caused, over 700 new
manufacturing jobs were created in Butler County in 2004. In
addition, during the recession years of 2002 and 2003, half of the
more than 2,100 new jobs created in the county for that period were
in the manufacturing sector. Examples include a $25.7 million expansion at Pacific Manufacturing in Fairfield that will add 250 new jobs to this dynamic auto component supplier to Toyota; expansions of two O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt that will create 260 new jobs, 200 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 square feet 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. In distribution, warehousing, and logistics, 2,090,131 square feet of space was either leased or sold in 2004 in Butler County, including the Dell project. Also in West Chester, Jack of All Games hired 50 new employees and expanded its facility by an additional 400,000 square feet at a cost of $17.3 million. Presto Foods moved from outside the region to locate in Butler County in a new $2.45 million, 86,200-square-foot distribution facility in Monroe that created 80 new jobs. Why has Butler County been so successful in attracting new business and expanding existing business? "A lot of it is because of our location," says Brian Coughlin, Butler County's director of economic development. "We have 11 interchanges with access to major interstate highways including I-75, I-71, and I-74; we're 30 miles south of I-70; we're 25 miles from two world-class international airports; and 54% of the nation's population and 53% of the country's manufacturing plants are within a one-day drive."
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