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CORPORATE MOVES Ohio By Dominique Cantelme Howard Hanna Moves Real Estate HQ to Cleveland oward Hanna Real Estate will move the regional headquarters of its 21-county operation in Ohio from Seven Hills to Cleveland. It will consolidate its operations in the downtown Warehouse District at 800 West St. Clair, the former location of recently acquired Realty One. “With the help of Councilman [Joe] Cimperman, the Downtown Cleveland Alliance and the City of Cleveland’s Economic Development Department, we were able to show H the unique assets available to businesses that made Downtown Cleveland the location of choice for the company,” Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson says. The city will provide to Howard Hanna an Urban Development Action Grant loan in the amount of $250,000, distributed over three years and likely turned into a grant if all loan conditions are met, including maintenance of employment levels. According to Howard Hanna executives, about 100 Seven Hills employees will join about 55 former Realty One employees downtown. More hiring is expected and the employment level will likely reach 200. Howard W. Hanna IV, president of Howard Hanna Ohio, said that in addition to taking over Realty One’s 25,000-squarefoot office space, the company plans to lease another 5,000 square feet in the building to accommodate more staff. He said Chester Center, WestOH in JulyMedicalisinschedwhich broke ground West Chester, 2006, uled to open its doors in May 2009. The facility is the first new full-service hospital in the Greater Cincinnati area in 25 years. WEST CHESTER MEDICAL CENTER OPENING IN MAY Part of the Health Alliance of Greater Cincinnati, the 380,000square-foot facility will be located near the borders of Butler and Warren counties. The hospital will help fulfill a need for close-to-home health care in these rapidly growing communities. By the time the hospital opens, the populations of these counties will already have grown more than 10 percent, compared with the population level at the 8 FEBRUARY 2009 PHOTO CREDITS: WESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER time of the ground-breaking for the project in 2006. Once fully operational, the 160-bed hospital (which has a 300-bed future expansion plan) will employ nearly 1000 workers. Officials do not expect the economic downturn to negatively impact the hospital’s usage. “People cannot control when they get sick. Illness is always going to be there. So even when there are bad economic times, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s going to impact the medical field,” says Stephanie Savicki of the Health Alliance. Located off Cox Road on the University Pointe medical campus, West Chester Medical Center is equipped with the latest technology, providing services which will include inpatient and outpatient diagnostics and treatment, imaging and a 24-hour full-service emergency department.

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Business Facilities - February 2009

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