Philo
Philo, OH · Business
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The Columbus Dispatch
Do full parking lots and full pews equate to economic success? Column
Rick Platt is President and CEO of the Heath-Newark-Licking County Port Authority with over three decades of experience in Ohio industrial development. He is a board member of JobsOhio. My dad taught me his skill at finding the best local restaurants. When our family traveled, he had a knack for finding out-of-the-way places to eat even though we’d never been there before. He had measures that weren’t always obvious or stated, but they worked. I once put my skills to the test in Europe. The best meal was at a second-floor restaurant in a small German village. No English menu. Ten tables. Stares from the “you aren’t from these parts” regulars – but darn good food. I’ve applied those inherited skills to industrial development. There are conventional measures. Population growth is the most obvious one. Media reports the ups and downs of a local economy when the Census estimates come out. I like to watch GDP and employment numbers. It’s not always the statistics that tell the economic story. We all look for evidence of prosperity without even knowing we are doing it. First Thought: Counting cars as a way to measure economic impact I look at parking lots in
The Coshocton Tribune
Lancaster Eagle-Gazette
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WTOL 11
Ohio leads country in gas price increase during tax holiday
USA TODAY
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The Best City In America For Gen Z Homebuyers Is Hiding Right Here In Ohio
Somewhere between your third rejected offer on a shoebox studio apartment and your fourth scroll through listings that cost more than a small country’s GDP, a city in Ohio quietly raised its hand. Akron has been sitting here the whole time, patient as a grandparent at a school play,...
thereportingproject.org
New building underway on Newark Granville Road likely to house medical offices
A sandstone-faced commercial building that sat for years at the top of the hill on Newark Granville Road on Newark’s western border with Granville slowly disappeared, stone by stone. The lot sat vacant in recent years, save for a few remaining piles of sandstone – until a few weeks...