Council approved nearly $50M in tax abatements for five projects that officials say will create jobs and preserve more than 1,200 local positions.

Interstate Utility Trailer has started work on a 17‑acre Franklin site off I‑75 that will combine sales, service and warehouse space for the dealer. The project adds to Franklin’s growing logistics footprint.

Air‑tow kicked off a $6.8M, 76,000‑sq‑ft expansion in Wapakoneta that will shift HQ functions and add roughly 10–15 jobs.

Scannell has started a 1.18M‑square‑foot speculative warehouse in Commercial Point, adding big‑bay logistics capacity beside Rickenbacker and Anduril’s Arsenal‑1.

The historic Mount Vernon News building has been reborn as Founders Food Hall, bringing kitchens, duckpin bowling, a bar and new office and campus space to downtown.

A national engineering firm has bought a historic Gay Street building and will base its national headquarters at 34–38 W. Gay St. in downtown Columbus.

Tentative county assessments add roughly $4.76B and send farmland values soaring 156.5%, while homes and commercial property rise in the high teens.

Columbus State is adding a $66.5 million OhioHealth Hall, a new tech hub and campus renovations downtown to expand hands-on training and local job pipelines. These projects pair bond funding with public and private support.

Mailers offering multi‑million‑dollar buyouts turned up in Jersey Township as a Mink Street Land Company wetlands permit for a 323‑acre data‑center project surfaced.

Ohio approved tax credits for seven projects worth more than $1.1 billion; two Cleveland-area manufacturing expansions would add about 115 jobs.

The Reserve at Hunter Trace brings 95 affordable senior apartments to Lancaster and starts leasing for July move‑ins with on‑site services and voucher acceptance.

A $29.5M renovation will reinvest in the Westin Great Southern, downtown Columbus' oldest surviving hotel, following a 2025 sale.

JobsOhio is pitching Gulf sovereign funds on semiconductors, health care and data centers as the state's GDP approaches $1 trillion.