Corrine Witherspoon,
Haven Behavioral Hospital of Dayton has announced the addition of
as director of business development.
With over 20 years of healthcare and marketing experience, Jackson has led business teams to meet and exceed sales and retention expectations. Most recently, Jackson was the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for East Ambulance where she was responsible for educating the community on private ambulance services, establishing and implementing marketing campaigns and developing an outside sales team.
Jackson is also the sole proprietor of Comprehensive Life Strategies, a training and development company that specializes in tailored leadership, team building, personal/professional coaching and internal/external customer service programs.
Jodi Neal Jackson
She is a certified Behavioral Analyst, Business Coach and Public Speaker.
As Director of Business Development at Haven, Jackson manages a team of community and clinical liaisons and is responsible for the marketing and business development strategies for the hospital.
For more information on Haven Behavioral Hospital of Dayton, call 937-234-0124 or visit dayton.havenbehavioral.com.
The office of diversity affairs at Miami University has hired two new associate directors and is in the process of hiring a third. Director Kelley Kimple said the office will be fully staffed once the position of assistant director of diverse student development is filled. the new associate director of diversity affairs at Miami University, starts June 1. She has been program coordinator for multicultural affairs at the University of Cincinnati-Blue Ash College. Witherspoon currently serves as president of the Black Alumni Association at Miami.
Hannah Thompson,
the new associate director of LGBTQ services at Miami University, starts June 1. She is coming to Miami from Mount St. Joseph University, where she has served as the career and co-op coordinator, OMIC (Ohio Means Internships & Co-ops) program manager and co-chair of the LGBTQ ALLY group for faculty and staff.
The office of diversity affairs provides direct support to diverse populations, social justice through diversity education and multicultural programming and campus resources on issues of diversity. It is located in the Cultural Center on the second floor of the Armstrong Student Center.
CT Consultants Inc. has announced the addition of
PE as a senior project manager. She brings over 24 years of experience and has led multi-disciplined teams on a variety of projects as the client manager.
During her career, Thomas has worked on a variety of public works projects, including street reconstructions and relocations, storm sewer projects, downtown enhancements, recreational trails, development plans, and boat ramps. Her experience involves taking projects from conception through construction including acquiring project funding.
Thomas graduated from Youngstown State University with a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering and is a registered professional engineer in Ohio.
Julie Thomas,
Several years COLUMBUS — from now, the road around John Glenn Columbus International Airport will be a giant construction site as a planned billion-dollar new terminal is built.
In the meantime, plenty of smaller projects are beginning or underway at or near the airport, taking advantage of available land and easy access to Columbus’ freeway system. They include:
The Columbus Regional Airport Authority, which oversees John Glenn Airport, plans a new Fairfield Inn and Suites hotel a short walk from the terminal building.
On the north airfield, Columbus-based Daimler construction has begun work on the latest phase of an office-and-warehouse development down the road from the headquarters building it built for NetJets a few years ago.
In Whitehall a half mile from the airport, the second phase of an office-and-warehouse project from Mark F. Taggart Co. is under construction for an opening late this year.
“There are many companies that want to house their corporate offices along with a distribution and warehousing component,” said Robert White, Jr., president of Daimler. “A lot of older buildings don’t have the proper (configuration), internet access and other things . ... It’s hard to find the right space in older, existing buildings.”
Columbus-based clothing maker Homage is one of the tenants in the previous phase of Daimler’s development, occupying 40,000 square feet of warehouse and office space for the past two years. The project benefited from state tax credits valued at about $146,000 in exchange for promised additions to Homage’s workforce by 2017. It has exceeded those goals, employing about 175 total in its office, warehouse and local stores.
The apparel company’s decision to consolidate several former locations at the airport was driven by the desire to be close to Easton Town Center, where the company has a busy store, and to be near the shippers it uses, such as FedEx, Homage President Jason Block said.
Many Homage workers live in or near Downtown, Block added, “so there is the added benefit of being opposite traffic going to and coming from work.” Morning traffic is much heavier coming into Downtown than leaving it, and the opposite is true in the afternoon rush hour.
Whitehall is bounded on the north by Fifth Avenue next to the airport, and the city has become more aggressive in the past couple of years in seeking new development.
Zach Woodruff, economic-development director for Whitehall, said the city’s location near freeways and the airport has been a selling point.
“What I think is interesting is that it’s development being done for users that aren’t necessarily heavy air cargo users or shippers,” he said. “But the area definitely has advantages in terms of logistics and access.”
Phase One of the Air South Commerce Center in Whitehall was completed in July 2016.
Drinkware maker Takeya USA and Continental Auto Parts, two companies new to the Columbus area, quickly filled the space.
Taggart is now looking to lease the phase set to open later this year. That phase will feature up-to-date technology and “all the bells and whistles needed to attract users today,” Woodruff said.
“The inventory of Class A space (the most up-to-date, desirable real estate) has been so low,” he said. “We’ve worked with developers on projects like this because we know that once ground is broken, they’ll start leasing.”
These projects don’t include ones directly related to aviation activity at the airport, including a new private airplane hangar that Renier Construction is building for MPW Industrial Services.
A new car-rental facility to serve the airport, being built by the airport authority, should commence construction next year.
Additional hotel rooms also are in the works on the airport property.