NetJets is growing its global headquarters on Bridgeway Avenue in Columbus by more than 365,000 square feet, a project the company expects to push its Central Ohio workforce to roughly 3,200 people once construction wraps in early 2029. The expansion would add about 800 local jobs beyond the company's current Columbus footprint.
Plans call for two new buildings — one of which includes office space and a training center for employees — along with a new parking garage and upgrades to dining and event venues, according to WSYX. The station reports the project follows the recent renovation of the NetJets Flight Center, which reopened in June with updated technology and new collaboration spaces.
The headquarters sits at 4111 Bridgeway Avenue, a site NetJets has steadily built out over the past decade and a half. Back in 2021, the company told The Columbus Region it already had 1,516 full-time associates at that address, with hiring for safety, service, IT, maintenance, operations, sales and support roles set to begin in the fourth quarter of that year.
A Different Jobs Number From 2021
That 2021 announcement pegged the expansion's job creation at 154 new positions, pending local approvals — a notably smaller figure than the roughly 800 jobs now tied to the current project. The dossier doesn't explain the shift between those two counts, so both figures are presented here as they were reported, each attributed to its own announcement.
NetJets Chairman and CEO Adam Johnson said at the time that the company chose to keep investing in Columbus because of the success of its existing headquarters and workforce culture, per the same 2021 release. The Bridgeway campus has long served as the company's base of operations even as its plans have shifted over the years.
A Winding History on Bridgeway Avenue
NetJets' Columbus footprint hasn't always expanded in a straight line. The company once shelved plans for a $200 million operations and training campus before instead pursuing a $21 million expansion of its existing complex at Port Columbus Regional Airport, according to Aviation International News. That 2010 project added a 140,000-square-foot facility connected to the existing Bridgeway Avenue building — less than half the size of the square footage now being added.
How It Compares to Other Private Jet Expansions in Ohio
NetJets isn't the only private aviation company betting big on Ohio. Flexjet's global headquarters expansion in Richmond Heights is projected to create 976 new full-time positions and roughly $62.5 million in new annual payroll by the end of 2031, while retaining 1,184 existing positions, according to Yahoo Finance. That project, tied to a headquarters that first opened in 2023, was described as the largest of five Ohio development projects recently approved by the state, accounting for more than two-thirds of the expected new jobs in that approval cycle. State officials approved a 1.92 percent, 15-year Job Creation Tax Credit for the Flexjet project, the outlet reported.
For Columbus, the NetJets expansion represents another sizable commitment from the world's largest private jet company to its home turf. With completion targeted for early 2029, the project adds to a long list of build-outs at the Bridgeway Avenue site stretching back more than fifteen years.
