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SZD, Indy law firm combining forces ICE MILLER TO make its presence known in Ohio as the Schottenstein Zox & Dunn name is retired.

BY JEFF BELL | BUSINESS FIRST

Looking to extend its reach beyond Ohio, Schottenstein Zox & Dunn Co. LPA is combining with an Indianapolis law firm, giving up its tradition-rich name as

part of the deal. The Columbus firm will combine operations with Ice Miller LLP, partners agreed Aug. 15. More than 750 attorneys and staff members will be affected, but no staff reductions are planned, the top managers of

the firms told Columbus Business First. “That’s not what this deal is about,” said Schottenstein Zox & Dunn President Jim Davidson. “It’s about client services, not administrative efficiencies.” SEE SZD, PAGE 44

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Nationwide going west with FBI-anchored offices BY BRIAN R. BALL | BUSINESS FIRST

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The FBI is closing in on the Arena District. The law enforcement agency has agreed to anchor the Columbus neighborhood’s latest addition – a three-story office building that will go up across from Huntington Park, extending Arena District developer Nationwide Realty Investors Ltd.’s push west of Neil Avenue. “It was originally designed as a speculative building,” said Nationwide Realty spokeswoman

Tina Guegold, “but the (FBI) has come in as the anchor.” Nationwide Realty will seek approval for the $10 million project at 425 W. Nationwide Blvd. from the city’s Downtown Commission on Aug. 23.

TAMING THE WEST The FBI will become the latest law enforcement agency in the Arena District. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives moved its regional offices to 230 West St. last year, SEE FBI, PAGE 44

Micro Center executives such as Merchandise Manager Lee McDonald, on the Bethel Road store sales floor, think the HDTV trade will pay dividends for the retailer when its sophisticated customers shop for electronics expertise.

Micro Center eyes big picture with TVs THE COMPUTER SPECIALIST is testing a much larger offering of HDTVs at its home store on Bethel Road, but that doesn’t mean it is straying far from its roots.

BY DAN EATON | BUSINESS FIRST

Micro Center knows it’s late to an overcrowded party, but it just couldn’t turn down the invitation. The Hilliard-based computer and consumer electronics retailer is stretching beyond its expertise by more than

doubling its selection of highdefinition televisions in a test and giving the products prime placement on its sales floor. It is making the move admittedly after the initial boom in HDTV sales and at a time when competition is fierce among electronics retailers SEE MICRO, PAGE 45

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Former 5/3 exec deals for CFBank O’Dell leading local investment group BY ADRIAN BURNS | BUSINESS FIRST

An investment group headed by a former Columbus banker may take control of a troubled Fairlawn bank with a Central Ohio presence. Tim O’Dell, Central Ohio president for Fifth Third Bancorp from 1999 to 2003, is spearheading a group that plans to invest $5 million in Central Federal Corp., the parent of CFBank. The proposal, which needs shareholder and regulatory approvals, would see O’Dell named CEO, according to an Aug. 16 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The plan would benefit both Central Federal and O’Dell. The bank has seen its fortunes crumble during the economic downturn, culminating in a May order from regulators to boost capital levels. O’Dell, meanwhile, has been scouting takeover candidates with a group of Central Ohio investors.

Blacklick Woods Golf Manager Rick Towle, left, chats with Todd White about progress on a 30,000-square-foot practice green that will be part of a learning center at the course. PHOTO BY JANET ADAMS | BUSINESS FIRST

Blacklick tearing down to build up business THE METRO PARKS-OWNED golf facility is digging up nine holes to make room for a learning center designed to interest new players and bring in revenue from those already hooked on the game. BY JEFF BELL | BUSINESS FIRST

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entral Ohio’s regional parks system wants to shore up the finances of the golf courses at Blacklick Woods Metro Park while developing a new generation of golfers. To do both, Columbus and Franklin County Metro Parks is converting part of the 36-hole complex in Reynoldsburg to a driving range and instruction center designed to

be a one-of-a-kind facility for Central Ohio, said Rick Towle, Blacklick’s golf manager. The project is aimed at giving play and practice options to players strapped for time and developing a junior golf program that will include lessons, clinics and camps. “It’s not just a practice center – it’s a learning center,” Towle said. “It will be different than anything else around here.” The facility will include the driv-

ing range and a 30,000-square-foot putting green with four sand bunkers, several fairway bunkers, an area where golfers can hit from uneven lies, five target greens, a teaching tee, a short-game teaching area and three practice holes.

‘UNACCEPTABLE TREND’ The new facilities are being built on the former back nine of Blacklick’s executive course. Play is still SEE GOLF, PAGE 46

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CAPITAL CONCERNS T. O’Dell: CFBank, which operates a branch of- Chetwood Group fice on North High Street in Worthington, got into trouble during the recession when loans began to sour in large numbers. It lost $6.1 million last year and, following regulators’ intervention, disclosed a plan Aug. 9 to sell $25 million in additional common stock and $5 million of shares to an investment group led by O’Dell, principal of New Albany-based Chetwood Group, a consulting and investment firm. Without the capital, the bank said in its regulatory filing, it could be forced into a merger by regulators. If that didn’t work, it was in danger of failing. Central Federal CEO Eloise Mackus said she could not comment on the proposal beyond clarifying the proceSEE CFBANK, PAGE 45

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reekside lost one prominent business this month and may lose another before a new owner takes over the Gahanna property. Craig Decker, owner of the Wine Guy Wine Shop Wine Bar and Bistro, is threatening to close his restaurant and store unless he can get lower rent, following Bread Basket Family Bakery out the door. It closed Aug. 6. Creekside’s receiver, Mark Froehlich of NAI Ohio Equities LLC, is urging patience on the part of tenants as the sale process plays out. “It’s in the best interest of tenants to renegotiate with new owners because they’re in a better situation to lower rents and get terms beneficial for both,� he said. “It’s not unusual for (tenants to leave) in a C. Decker: larger receivership. We’ll Wine Guy try to work through it and do it in a fair way that’s in the best interest of all parties.� Decker disagreed. “Status quo isn’t going to save anybody,� Decker said. “(Customers) come here for us or Mezzo, then they leave. They’ve already lost one good tenant. They may lose more.� One of those won’t be Jewels & More. Owner Toni Pasch said business remains good at her jewelry shop, which is opposite the main plaza from Wine Guy. “We have a wonderful clientele that is quite loyal,� she said in an email. “We look forward to the new group ownership and will base future lease decisions on that.� The development along Mill Street has been in receivership since February.

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Tax map research series shows Ohio’s lowered rates The folks at Three Scale Research Inc. are at it again, releasing another in their series on the business climate in Ohio. The Upper Arlington-based firm this month kicked off the series with a report detailing how Columbus is the most centrally located city in the nation for reaching the most people in a 500-mile radius. Now it is taking a 15-part look at comparative tax rates for states, countries, Ohio counties and cities in the Midwest. Being staffed with geographers and economists, the reports will take the form of interactive maps “intended to inform, encourage discussion and generate ideas,� the firm said in its blog. The first map looked at income tax rates, and showed how Ohio’s lowest and highest tax brackets have had among the

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Elford CEO retirement prompts changes in executive posts Elford Inc. has completed changes in its executive suite that include the selection of the seventh CEO to head the Columbus construction company since it was founded in 1910. Jim Smith, 51, Elford’s president and chief operating officer, has replaced Jeff Copeland, 65, who retired from the CEO job he’d held since 2002. Smith called it “a quiet transition.� “Jeff and I have been transitioning for the last three-plus years,� he said. “What I’ve done in the last two years isn’t going to change drastically.� The changing of the guard has led to two other key management changes. J. Smith: New Elford CEO Tim Davis, most recently Elford’s senior director of business development and marketing, became executive vice president and chief operating officer. Davis worked at Smoot Construction Co. in Columbus for five years before joining Elford in 2009. Elford also expanded the duties of Mike Fitzpatrick, president and co-founder of its Elford Development division. He’ll serve as vice president of the construction company, overseeing its business development and marketing. Copeland will remain chairman and provide occasional engineering services, plus training and leadership development help. “We’re looking to capture his wealth of knowledge to supplement our training program,� Smith said. – BRIAN R. BALL

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Insiders go shopping during market turmoil, adding to stock holdings Huntington CEO Steinour leads list of executives buying up company shares BY ADRIAN BURNS | BUSINESS FIRST

While the stock market struggled in July and early August, executives and directors at some Central Ohio publicly traded companies went shopping for shares in their companies. Of 30 public companies in the region, nine saw executives and directors buy stock on the open market between July 22 and Aug. 12, according to filings required by the Securities and Exchange Commission when insider shares are bought or sold. The S&P 500 Index lost 12.7 percent during the period.

Those purchases amounted to a $1.6 million vote of confidence in the companies’ futures. While the insider purchases can be a show of confidence, what’s notable is the lack of buying by executives and board members at the rest of the companies, said Chris Henneforth, president of New Albany money manager Level Partners LLC. “And that’s not something that’s uncommon across the stage right now,” he said. “A lot of businesses are frozen and paralyzed with fear that we’re going into another recession.” Henneforth said it would take 10 times the $1.6 million in purchases to send a signal of confidence in the broader economy.

“That’s a joke,” he said. “There are guys with that much in their checking accounts.” Calls to the companies with the insider activity elicited mostly no comments or unreturned messages. A spokesman for Pacer International Inc. said two of the Dublin logistics company’s directors bought a combined 12,000 shares for $54,480 during the period examined by Columbus Business First. “We have confidence in our company, and I’m guessing that their buying reflected that,” said Pacer investor relations head Steve Markosky. The most active buyers were at Huntington Bancshares Inc., which saw 148,741 shares valued at $832,883 bought by insid-

CLEANING UP Executives and directors at nine Central Ohio public companies took advantage of the recent market slump to buy stock in their companies: COMPANY INSIDER BUYING Huntington Bancshares $832,883 Commercial Vehicle Group $363,439 Scotts Miracle-Gro $104,990 Oxford Resources $97,290 American Electric Power $71,675 Pacer International $54,480 Worthington Industries $33,830 Bravo Brio Restaurant Group $18,900 State Auto Financial $10,533 Note: Amounts shown are the reported value of stock purchases made by the companies’ top executives and directors from July 22 through Aug. 12. Totals do not include options. Source: Securities and Exchange Commission Form 4 and Form 4/A filings

| IN BRIEF | Fracking debate stokes detractors’ fears, backers’ optimism Ohio’s pro-shale gas interests got a boost Aug. 17 from Ohio State University geophysics professor Jeff Daniels. At a Columbus Metropolitan Club forum on the topic of extracting natural gas from deep shale formations, Daniels said the practice can be done safely and drilling in Ohio’s Utica shale formation will take place about 6,000 feet underground, well below groundwater levels. His comments were mixed with those by Ohio oil and gas industry spokesman Tom Stewart, environmentalist Ellen Mee and state natural resources regulator Scott Zody. Stewart defended his industry’s track record, including controversial hydraulic fracturing methods. Mee pointed to water contamination and air pollution problems that have dogged fracking operations in other states. Zody, who works for Ohio’s pro-shale gas Gov. John Kasich, said state government is well-positioned to regulate deep-well drilling operations. Zody also said Kasich sees the development of Ohio’s Utica shale play as an opportunity to pull Ohio out of its economic doldrums. That is a message the governor often has delivered since taking office in January.

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ers during the period. The largest single transaction made at the nine companies during the period was $249,981 in shares purchased by CEO Steve Steinour on July 25, when the stock had drifted to $6.02 from $6.53 earlier in the month. The purchase by Steinour continued a pattern of buying by the bank chief, who holds 2.2 million shares in Columbusbased Huntington. The bank also saw a handful of its directors purchase stock during the period. Also active were executives and board members of Commercial Vehicle Group Inc. in New Albany, which saw purchases totaling $363,439 during the period. 614-220-5450 | aburns@bizjournals.com

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Gay Street patio controversy nets promises of cooperation from city DOWNTOWN RESTAURANTS WANT to see more appreciation for what they’re trying to do for Columbus from inspectors and others. BY DAN EATON | BUSINESS FIRST

As the ire of Gay Street restaurateurs cools and Columbus officials promise more civility, both sides will explore changes that, if the eatery operators have their way, could make business easier. “We do these things to improve our business, to improve the area,� said Jeff Mathes, owner of Due Amici on Gay Street and Barrio on High Street, referring to setting up sidewalk patios that have come under fire from the city. “This is economic development.� With the city’s emphasis on downtown – $9 million of improvements on Gay Street, the opening of Columbus Commons and the $27 million Scioto Mile redevelopment – some think downtown permitting and processes need to be streamlined. “We’ve bought into E. Lessner: that vision,� said ElizaRestaurateur beth Lessner, whose restaurant holdings include the Tip Top Kitchen & Cocktails on Gay Street. “We’re putting our money into that. We want to make our businesses attractive and inviting.� Cleve Ricksecker, Capital Crossroads Special Improvement District’s executive director, said heavy regulation and muddled processes are squeezing businesses and are a deterrent to development.

“Cities aren’t made by big municipal projects,� he said. “They’re made by the thousands of entrepreneurs who are empowered and unleashed.� Some of those entrepreneurs were unleashed this week. City officials met with frustrated Gay Street restaurant owners Aug. 15. Both sides left the table with a pledge from the city for improved customer service from inspectors and the promise of a committee to address code and communication issues.

HOOPS TO HOP Downtown restaurants work with several departments, including Building Services for building code, the Downtown Commission for exterior appearances and Public Service for sidewalk patios. Ricksecker said downtown is a different breed that doesn’t always fit with the city’s suburban-oriented codes and leads to conflicts, but exceptions have been made. Ohio’s building code grants cities leeway on code standards for older buildings, while the Downtown Commission, established in 1997, operates separate from the rest of the city’s zoning. “It was intended to speed up the process

for downtown development to make it as hassle-free as possible,� Ricksecker said. “It shifted the emphasis from separating uses to does it look good, does it function well? That made all the sense in the world.� Right-of-way issues – patios, flower boxes, umbrellas, awnings – still are handled the same throughout the city. Mathes said making downtown its own zoning district works and separating and centralizing right-of-way issues in the district makes sense, too. Mark Kelsey, Public Service director, said at the meeting he is open to changing permitting processes and city codes where possible. Patti Austin, administrator for the division of planning and operations in Public Safety, said the city has no flexibility with federal law such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, which led to the recent flare-up over the flower boxes on the Pearl Alley side of J. Gumbo’s. Franchisee Chad McCoury said his biggest concern was not with ADA, but the city’s handling of the issue. Lessner said business shouldn’t have to choose between beautification and access when there are surely compromises. For J. Gumbo’s, Austin said that compromise means more flower boxes now, with

‘Cities aren’t made by big municipal projects. They’re made by the thousands of entrepreneurs who are empowered and unleashed.’

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ASKING QUESTIONS The communication concern is twopronged, both between Columbus and the business community and within the city departments. “It’s not an easy thing to get 10,000 city staff people on the same page,� Ricksecker said. The city needs to be better at setting goals across divisions and single departments, he said. Much could be solved by asking common sense questions – What is the goal? Is it setting a good precedent? What is the issue and what isn’t? Ricksecker said those were questions asked by the city under previous downtown development administrator Bob McLaughlin, who left that position in 2007, months before it was eliminated in budget cuts. Mathes, Lessner and McCoury see an economic development issue. “On one hand, the Department of Development is trying to make things simple, trying to incentivize,� Mathes said. “On the other, the perception of Public Service is the opposite. It’s enforcement. It’s regulatory.� Austin said the city will take a look at centralizing its permitting process, which would not just benefit businesses but also special events and farmers markets such as Pearl Market. She said it will be more proactive in aiding small businesses. “They want us to help them more,� Austin said. “We can go in, mark up their drawing and be done with it. We can give them more information up front.�

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Agency moving to workers’ compensation building ALCOHOL AND DRUG Addiction Services is leaving a Nationwide-owned building to save taxpayers money by occupying state-owned space. BY BRIAN R. BALL | BUSINESS FIRST

The Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services plans to leave its offices at 280 Plaza in downtown Columbus this year, but landlord Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. isn’t raising a fuss about losing the big tenant. The state agency plans to vacate 36,451 square feet in the building at 280 N. High St. – commonly called Two Nationwide Plaza – by the end of the year. It expects to move its 100 workers across the street into 22,222 square feet of the William Green Building, the state-owned tower at 30 W. Spring St. that is anchored by the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation. Pieter Wykoff, a spokesman for the Ohio Department of Administrative Services, which represents state government in property deals, said the consolidation fits

Gov. John Kasich’s pushed for improved cost efficiency when it comes to real estate. The 39 percent reduction in square footage and lower rent at the William Green tower will save the state $432,000 a year, he said. “We’re taking a look at all of our leased commercial space to get as many agencies out of the commercial space and into state-owned properties so we can save money,� he said.

KEEPING IT IN-HOUSE The Department of Administrative Services has marketed space in the William Green Building since 2009, after reductions at the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation made 100,000 square feet available. Marsha Ryan, former workers’ comp administrator in the Strickland administration, told Columbus Business First in 2009 that leasing the space to other state agencies could save the bureau $1 million a year in rent to the Ohio Building Authority, the bonding agency that financed construction of the 30-story tower in the 1980s. While many downtown landlords might

‘Rather than (lease the space) to the real estate market, Nationwide decided to put some of their own folks in the space.’ Terry Mathews | CB Richard Ellis Group Inc.

shudder at the loss of a major state tenant, Nationwide welcomed it. That’s because the insurer is scrambling to find more downtown office space for its employees. Terry Mathews, senior vice president of CB Richard Ellis Group Inc.’s Global Corporate Services division, said Nationwide can use the space this fall as it prepares to relocate 400 workers from the former BMW Financial Services building in Dublin to its downtown campus. “Rather than (lease the space) to the real estate market,� he said, “Nationwide decided to put some of their own folks in the space.� An additional 1,000 Nationwide employees are expected be moved into the city in the next year or so as part of an economic development deal Nationwide struck last year with City Hall. That accord cleared the way for the city to support financing some public improvements near Grandview Yard, the mixed-use development Nationwide Realty Investors Ltd. is building primarily in Grandview Heights.

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It can’t be easy to be a company suing Facebook, but Michael McKibben sounds up for it. His Web communications company, Leader Technologies Inc., last month filed the opening brief in the federal appeals phase of its three-year lawsuit against Facebook Inc., accusing the social networking giant of building its software backbone on Leader’s patented technology. The appeal grinds on a year after a jury in U.S. District Court in Delaware, where both companies are incorporated, delivered a split verdict that was a sort of moral victory for Leader but meant a loss in the case. The jury found that Facebook infringed on all 11 of Lewis Center-based Leader’s claims related to its patent, but that Leader sold its technology more than a year before seeking protection – which the law says invalidates the entire patent. Leader’s technology has been hard to sell once it became available for free, McKibben said, but he remains confident both in his product and his legal prospects. “It’s never a distraction protecting the intellectual property you’ve created,” he said. “When you’ve got the truth on your side and you’ve got good lawyers, you can take them on.” Facebook declined to comment. A search of federal appellate cases turned up only two against Facebook – the famous one by the Winklevoss twins and a class action related to an advertising program.

Plaintiff: Leader Technologies Inc., Lewis Center Defendant: Facebook Inc., Palo Alto, Calif. Filed: Nov. 19, 2008, in U.S. District Court for Delaware; appeal filed April 21 in U.S. Court of Appeals Case: 08-CV-0862; appeal is 2011-1366 Accusations: Leader alleges Facebook used its pending patent application for an online datamanagement system. July 2010 verdict: Jury found Facebook infringed on Leader’s patent, but the patent was invalid. Relief sought: Injunction to stop using the technology and triple damages for lost revenue.

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Both resulted in settlements. McKibben started Leader Technologies in 1997 to use the Internet to manage business processes. In court documents, he says the company spent $10 million developing its signature product, Leader2Leader, to automate sorting communications and documents by project. Jeff Lamb’s name appears on the patent with McKibben’s. He was then Leader’s technology chief, and said developers hit a wall trying to build its system with offthe-shelf software. In December 2002, the company put the other programmers on a month’s leave while Lamb went on a coding marathon. That’s when it filed for provisional patent protection. “When they came back in January, we had a brand new approach to solving that problem,” said Lamb, now at startup developer QStart Labs in Columbus. “There’s a certain kind of nerdy edification that the jury came back (saying) that it was innovative, it was ahead of its time, it was unique and no one had ever done it before,” Lamb said. A year later, the company filed its full patent application, and McKibben published a description of its claims. Facebook went live just a few months later, in 2004. “Whether you call it social networking or enterprise collaboration, it’s the same stuff,” McKibben said. McKibben won’t say how he thinks Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg found the white paper while in his Harvard University dorm room, other than that Zuckerberg has boasted of hacking exploits and that McKibben’s son Max was a fellow student. Despite the infringement finding, the jury also decided Leader2Leader had always incorporated the patented technology, disbelieving McKibben’s testimony that the product evolved over time and couldn’t have used code Lamb hadn’t yet written. The appeal argues that the jury can discredit McKibben’s testimony, but can’t use that as proof that the product always had the technology. “This is I think the strongest argument that Leader has,” said Earl LeVere, a patent litigator at Schottenstein Zox & Dunn Co. LPA who has watched the case. But the company still faces hurdles, LeVere said. Federal appellate judges defer to juries, and the district judge ruled that the jury could rely on Leader’s written statements that the product today contains the patented technology. To reverse the verdict, the three-judge panel would have to find zero supporting evidence. “That’s the type of situation where I could see the court of appeals going either way,” LeVere said.

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Vorys Sater Seymour and Pease LLP 52 E. Gay St., Columbus 43216 614-464-6400 • vorys.com

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Limited Brands, Honda of America Manufacturing, Abercrombie & Fitch

Litigation, corporate, labor and employment, commercial, real estate, banking and finance

1909/ Columbus/ Russell Gertmenian

Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP 41 S. High St., Suite 2900, Columbus 43215 614-227-2000 • porterwright.com

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American Electric Power, Huntington National Bank, Rocky Brands

Corporate/securities, litigation, labor and employment, M&A, environmental, energy

1846/ Columbus/ Robert Trafford

Bricker & Eckler LLP 100 S. Third St., Columbus 43215 614-227-2300 • bricker.com

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Nationwide, OhioHealth, City of Columbus

Litigation, health care, business, tax and estates, education, regulatory services

1945/ Columbus/ Kurtis Tunnell

Schottenstein Zox & Dunn Co. LPA 250 West St., Columbus 43215 614-462-2700 • szd.com

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Big Lots, City of Dublin, Huntington Bancshares

Labor/employment, business/ corporate/restructuring, business litigation, health care

1966/ Columbus/ James Davidson

Squire Sanders & Dempsey LLP 41 S. High St., Columbus 43215 614-365-2700 • ssd.com

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29/ 43/ 6

Advanced Drainage Systems, JPMorgan Chase, New Albany Development Corp.

Corporate, litigation, labor/ employment, real estate, environmental, health care, tax

1976/ Cleveland/ Alex Shumate

Jones Day 325 John H. McConnell Blvd., Suite 600 Columbus 43215, 614-469-3939 • jonesday.com

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23/ 39/ 6

Nationwide, Cardinal Health, Abercrombie & Fitch

Trial practice, M&A, real estate, tax, issues and appeals, labor and employment

1980/ Cleveland/ Elizabeth Kessler

Baker & Hostetler LLP 65 E. State St., Suite 2100, Columbus 43215 614-228-1541 • bakerlaw.com

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32/ 28/ 2

Cardinal Health, State Farm Insurance, Greif

Commercial litigation, business, employee benefits, labor and employment, environmental

1979/ Cleveland/ Daniel Gunsett

Kegler Brown Hill & Ritter Co. LPA 65 E. State St., Suite 1800, Columbus 43215 614-462-5400 • keglerbrown.com

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39/ 13/ 8

Cardinal Health, Charles Penzone, Donatos Pizza

Corporate, litigation, government relations, M&A, international business, labor

1964/ Columbus/ Michael Zatezalo

Bailey Cavalieri LLC 10 W. Broad St., Suite 2100, Columbus 43215 614-221-3155 • baileycavalieri.com

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Battelle, Mount Carmel Health System, Time Warner Entertainment

Director and officer liability, commercial bankruptcy, litigation, banking, corporate

2003/ Columbus/ Donald Paynter

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP 191 W. Nationwide Blvd., Suite 300, Columbus 43215, 614-628-6880 • dinslaw.com

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Corporate, litigation, labor/ employment, health care, workers’ compensation

1987/ Cincinnati/ Donald Leach Jr.

Thompson Hine LLP 41 S. High St., Suite 1700, Columbus 43215 614-469-3200 • thompsonhine.com

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Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Zoombezi Bay, Kokosing Construction

Corporate, business litigation, construction, real estate

1981/ Cleveland/ Anthony White

Chester Willcox & Saxbe LLP 65 E. State St., Suite 1000, Columbus 43215 614-221-4000 • cwslaw.com

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American Municipal Power, Hill Distributing, Interstate Gas Supply

Litigation, corporate, familyowned businesses, health care, employment

1884/ Columbus/ Charles Saxbe

Carlile Patchen & Murphy LLP 366 E. Broad St., Columbus 43215 614-228-6135 • cpmlaw.com

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Isaac Brant Ledman & Teetor LLP 250 E. Broad St., Suite 900, Columbus 43215 614-221-2121 • isaacbrant.com

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Wasserstrom, Lifestyle Communities, Lowes

Corporate, litigation, government affairs, family law, tax and estate planning

1983/Columbus/ management committee

Roetzel & Andress LPA 155 E. Broad St., 12th floor, Columbus 43215 614-463-9770 • ralaw.com

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Chancellor Health Partners, OhioHealth, PNC Bank

Corporate, business litigation, labor/employment, governmental affairs, estates

1986/ Akron/ Erika Haupt

Carpenter Lipps & Leland LLP 280 N. High St., Suite 1300, Columbus 43215 614-365-4100 • carpenterlipps.com

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Fifth Third Bank, General Motors, Nationwide

Litigation, public policy

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Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP 41 S. High St., Suite 2600, Columbus 43215 614-223-9300 • beneschlaw.com

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Cardinal Health, Communicare Health Services, Alvis House

Litigation, health care, public law, public finance, corporate/ securities, nonprofit, energy

1984/ Cleveland/ Thomas Washbush

Lane Alton & Horst LLC 2 Miranova Place, Suite 500, Columbus 43215 614-228-6885 • lanealton.com

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Cincinnati Insurance, Kroger, Doctors Co.

Litigation, professional malpractice, construction, business, employment

1929/ Columbus/ Gregory Rankin

Crabbe Brown & James LLP 500 S. Front St., Suite 1200, Columbus 43215 614-228-5511 • cbjlawyers.com

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General trial practice, insurance and corporate law, zoning, land use development, probate

1917/ Columbus/ Jeffrey Brown

Frost Brown Todd LLC 10 W. Broad St., Suite 2300, Columbus 43215 614-464-1211 • frostbrowntodd.com

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Anchor Hocking, Glimcher Realty Trust, Waste Management

Litigation, labor and employment, business/ corporate, IP, lending

1988/ Cincinnati/ Thomas Williams

Maguire & Schneider LLP 250 Civic Center Drive, Suite 500, Columbus 43215, 614-224-1222 • ms-lawfirm.com

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Old Republic National Title Insurance, Real Living

White-collar criminal defense, commercial litigation, employment litigation

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Wiles Boyle Burkholder & Bringardner Co. 300 Spruce St., 1st floor, Columbus 43215 614-221-5216 • wileslaw.com

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Cameron Mitchell Restaurants, PalmerDonavin Manufacturing

Municipal law, business litigation, real estate, debtor/ creditor, restaurant employment

1940/ Columbus/ Michael Close

Calfee Halter & Griswold LLP 21 E. State St., Suite 1100, Columbus 43215 614-621-1500 • calfee.com

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Ohio State University, NexTech, Reservoir Venture Partners

Reminger Co. LPA 65 E. State St., 4th Floor, Columbus 43215 614-228-1311 • reminger.com

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1991/ Cleveland/ Ronald Fresco

Luper Neidenthal & Logan 50 W. Broad St., Suite 1200, Columbus 43215 614-221-7663 • lnlattorneys.com

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Clark Schaefer merging offices BY GINGER CHRIST | FOR BUSINESS FIRST

Clark Schaefer Hackett & Co., a midsize accounting firm in Central Ohio but the largest in the Dayton area, will combine its Dayton and Middletown offices at Austin Landing, one of that region’s biggest commercial developments. The accounting firm will put the two offices and 83 workers into a 20,000-square-foot space in a building at the 142-acre mixed-use development off the interstate in Miami Township. Clark Schaefer signed a 10-year lease. The company, which was founded in Middletown, runs offices in Columbus, Toledo, Springfield and Troy. It has no plans for other office consolidations, said Herb Lemaster, shareholder in charge of the Dayton office who will oversee operations at the combined operation. The accounting firm will be the first tenant in a fourstory, 120,000-square-foot building, which will begin construction Sept. 1. The $12 million building will become the third office building for the complex. Clark Schaefer expects to move in next July 1. In addition, developer RG Properties expects lease commitments from two more companies, which would bring Austin Landing’s starting occupancy to 50 percent. Names of the other prospects weren’t disclosed. “I see it as a real positive for the Dayton region because we’re gaining jobs from Middletown that could have gone to Cincinnati,” said Mark Fornes, president of Mark Fornes Realty Inc., who represented the accounting firm in the deal. The accounting firm last December signed a 12-year lease in downtown Cincinnati, where it will station more than 100 employees. Lemaster said a downtown presence isn’t as important as it was years ago given the technology advances of business. With telecommuting, fewer clients visit the firm’s office, and more often Clark Schaefer employees travel to clients’ sites. GINGER CHRIST is a reporter for the Dayton Business Journal, an affiliated newspaper. 937-528-4427 | gchrist@bizjournals.com

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Wyler buys McDorman Chevy dealership TAPPING INTO A long friendship, the Cincinnati car merchant has a deal to add the showroom in Canal Winchester to its network of nine dealerships. BY DAN MONK | FOR BUSINESS FIRST

Cincinnati car dealer Jeff Wyler is reaching back to the start of his career to expand the reach of his auto dealership group into Central Ohio. Jeff Wyler Automotive Family Inc. has signed a purchase contract for Bob McDorman Chevrolet in Canal Winchester. The deal cements a friendship that began in the 1960s, when Wyler was McDorman’s sales representative for General Motors Corp. McDorman, 79, said he talked to four prospective buyers before reaching a deal with Wyler – in a 15-minute conversation. “We sat in a restaurant and talked it over,” McDorman said. “They hadn’t even brought the food yet, and we had it done.” An avid car collector, McDorman last November sold a 150-car package that included what was billed as “the world’s most complete Corvette collection.” He still has three collectors-edition Corvettes and is planning to buy five more. “I’m going to drive a different one every day” in semi-retirement, he said. The purchase needs the approval of GM. The dealership’s 75 employ-

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Bob McDorman, seen with his car collection in 2003, says he reached the agreement to sell his Canal Winchester Chevrolet dealership in 15 minutes. He plans to retire. ees were told of the sale this month. Neither would reveal the purchase price, but both said the deal allows McDorman to retain a minority stake in the dealership for four years. That would let McDorman achieve his goal of being a Chevy dealer for 50 years. Wyler said the deal fits with his strategy of expanding to cities within 100 miles of Cincinnati. The 789-employee company, which is among the largest privately held companies in the Cincinnati area, owns dealerships in Springfield, Frankfort, Ky., and Clarksville, Ind. The group operates nine dealerships with 28 franchises.

“There comes a point of diminishing returns in one market,” he said. “My son-in-law and son are young and aggressive and they want to grow the business. I’m happy to be part of growing it for the next generation.” Wyler said he’s closing in on another acquisition but declined to identify the seller. Other Cincinnati-based car sellers with Central Ohio showrooms include Joseph Auto Group and Performance Automotive. DAN MONK is a reporter for the Cincinnati Business Courier, an affiliated newspaper 513-337-9438 | dmonk@bizjournals.com

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Neoprobe’s retail investors hoping to see long-held faith rewarded Celebratory mood ensues at Dublin biotech company’s latest shareholders’ meeting BY CARRIE GHOSE | BUSINESS FIRST

Public companies have shareholders. Neoprobe Corp. has believers. Staff of the Dublin biotech company had to rush to find more chairs for the hotel conference room where more than 100 visitors brought a celebratory air to an Aug. 15 annual meeting recapping recent milestones: New leadership, return to a major stock exchange, a cash infusion from selling a business, submission for regulatory approval of its first drug, and revival of another dormant product. Neoprobe is not sitting still as it awaits a decision expected by June from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on whether it can sell Lymphoseek, an aid to testing for the spread of cancer. The company expects to buy the rights to at least one more radiopharmaceutical by the end of the year and try to usher it to commercialization, CEO Mark Pykett said. Executives acknowledged the help of retail shareholders who’ve kept faith in the company, profitable in just two of its 28 years. Pykett and CFO Brent Larson mingled with clusters of them, taking questions long after the formal session ended. A line formed to shake hands with former CEO David Bupp, who remains a director and 5 percent owner. John Webb and Steve Maassen, regulars on an Internet message board for shareholders, drove together from St. Louis and organized a happy hour the night before. They’re among many owners certain they’ll finally make it big on what Maassen calls “the most undervalued, overlooked company I could think of.” Maassen, a retired Teamster who has bought shares for as little as 7 cents, was amazed he found a penny stock company with two drugs in late-stage clinical development, a revenue source and no debt. In the past 12 months, the stock has ranged from $1.50 to $5.48. “I couldn’t stop following this company. It was addictive,” said Webb, a retired contractor. He bought Neoprobe at an average of 60 cents a share. He still holds blue chips, but he has evangelized Neoprobe to friends, business associates and even a grandchild who invested. The two said money is great, but the promise of Neoprobe’s radioactive specialty drugs – finding cancer that conventional methods miss – keeps them hooked. “I want to see this work,” Webb said. Institutional investors are starting to take notice. Wall Street investment houses that typically don’t buy until a stock is on a major index now hold 21 percent of Neoprobe shares, with 39 funds making new investments and 54 increasing their holdings as of June 30, according to an Edgar Online Inc. summary. Eight funds decreased their positions in the quarter and four sold out. “The company is on the right path,” said Michael Goldberg, principal with Platinum-Montaur Life Sciences LLC, which infused the company with $16 million and influenced several management changes. With its investment converted to preferred shares, which led to accounting changes

that created most of the company’s on-paper losses last year, New York-based Platinum has made back its $16 million and still controls the equivalent of 52 million shares – pure profit. Goldberg and independent analysts said the company was wise to sell its only revenue source, a hand-held radiation detection device used in surgery. Shareholders overwhelmingly approved a sale of that business to Cincinnati-based Devicor Medical Products Inc. for $30 million plus up to $20 million in future royalties. The immediate infusion of $27.3 million gives the company three years’ worth of cash, Larson said. Neoprobe has built up “unique insight” in the radioactive drug niche in the decade it worked on Lymphoseek, both by navigating regulations and designing clinical experiments, said Kevin DeGeeter, an analyst with New York-based Ladenburg Thalmann & Company Inc. It will need more products to move forward, he said, and now is a sensible time to take on a new drug. Most of the work is done on Lymphoseek, and DeGeeter estimated its other drug – cancer-detecting Rigscan – is at least five years from marketing. If Lymphoseek is approved for sale, marketing and distribution will be done by Dublin-based Cardinal Health Inc., which splits revenue 50-50 with Neoprobe. 614-220-5458 | cghose@bizjournals.com

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8,000s in the coming 12 months. As I was watching the market plunge, I wondered how it was possible for Ponzi-scheme artist Bernard Madoff to be convicted for swindling $65 billion from investors by the same government that swindled trillions of dollars from the American public. Well, when people begin to recognize that they can vote themselves largess from the public treasury, their collective demand soon reaches a critical mass that throws the equilibrium of their democracy out of balance. Basically that’s what’s been happening for decades. But on the other hand, just imagine what a wonderful country this could be if all of our legislators were forthright, noble, just, honest and wise. Casting blame does not solve problems, although we are all to blame. Don’t panic. Don’t listen to the fear-mongers who ooze from the woodwork with horror stories and then, like lemmings, race madly in line to follow each other over the cliffs. The market never will be as bad as it gets in your darkest dreams. Still, this is the end of an era, and the ripple effects may change the dreams and hopes of hundreds of millions of Americans. If the United States ever had to suffer a credit downgrade, this is the best time for it. We are now wallowing in the same dirty laundry basket as hundreds of other countries, so we have plenty of company. On the plus side, the United States has the best and cleanest dirty laundry of them all. So this too shall pass. If your portfolio contains many of the income stocks I’ve recommended or similar issues suggested by others, just stay the course. Sell your business development companies, but please keep your other good dividend-paying issues. It’s not the value of your investments that matters, rather it’s the income that is paid that is most important. If you have $343,000 in dependable dividend issues, such as pipelines, utilities and telephone businesses that have a combined yield of 6.9 percent, or $23,000, don’t make a single change. If your portfolio declines to $220,000 in value, those dividends are still likely to total $23,000 annually. Do not allow yourself to be pushed into a variable annuity by a charming and articulate broker who will make a sweet 6 percent to 8 percent commission on the sale. As I noted earlier, such annuities are subject to fluctuations in market value. If you do have a variable annuity, keep it, and do not allow the salesman to move it to another annuity product. If you have cash, keep it in cash. I think the Dow could have another 2,000 points on the downside, which will give us some time-honored investment opportunities with attractive dividends to warm the cockles of your bank account. I’ll discuss those issues in another column. MALCOLM BERKO is an investment specialist. Address questions to him at P.O. Box 8303, Largo, Fla. 33775. mjberko@yahoo.com

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JobsOhio backers promise speed, flexibility with development deals BY JOE COGLIANO | FOR BUSINESS FIRST

For Mark Kvamme, JobsOhio is all about speed and flexibility. “We want to go on the offense,� said Kvamme, interim chief investment officer of JobsOhio, the state’s new private economic development organization. Kvamme and Christiane Schmenk, director of the Ohio Department of Development, sat down for an interview after the official rollout of JobsOhio this week, outlining what businesses can expect during the next 12 to 18 months. While Kvamme said specific goals haven’t been set, the organization has started working with regional partners such as Columbus2020 under an economic development contract with the state. The regional partners will be charged with putting together the initial stages of economic development deals, then funneling those deals to JobsOhio. Business First: What incentives will JobsOhio be able to offer that are currently handled by the Ohio Department of Development, or don’t exist at all? KVAMME: (JobsOhio) will have upward of $100 million a year to direct, the way we think it should be directed, combined with (other state) incentives. We’ll have a pool of money to do what needs to get done and we’ll have a pool of resources and capability that we advise the state on where they should put it. Q: Will JobsOhio incentives be issued as grants for roadway improvements or equipment, similar to grants currently issued by the state? KVAMME: The last thing we’re going to do is create programs. What we’re going to do is, we have three metrics of success: jobs created, capital invested and (return on investment) to the state. So if we need to invest half a million dollars in a roadway interchange in order to create 500 jobs, we’ll do that all day long. This is a very important point because when you work in a bureaucracy, basically you have different programs that are then funded by the state and approved by the legislature. So you have grants, job creation tax credits, job retention credits, Clean Ohio, shovel-ready sites ... and it just goes on and on. What happens is, this (pot of money) has $10 million, this one has $5 million, this one has $50 million. So what you do is sit there and play this game of what do we need, which ones can we take from? But it doesn’t make any sense to the company ... and with all these extra “gotchas� it just doesn’t work. In a JobsOhio-type situation, we can sit down and construct a business deal in a way businesses think. And then we’ll have the flexibility if they need an interchange, if they need a sewer, if they need to order a new piece of equipment, whatever it is, if it helps us get those jobs here then we’ll do it. Q: You talk about moving at the speed of business, but at some point when state incentives are involved, doesn’t the process still get slowed down? SCHMENK: We know we have to find a way to work as fast as they are, so we’re already starting to revise our programs. We’re looking at revising our tax credit approval process so that it doesn’t take as long to come before a formal board so we can get things done in a lot more quick and efficient way.

Q: Would that mean the Tax Credit Authority would meet more often? SCHMENK: Or not as often. Perhaps we can outline parameters that if a company meets X,Y and Z, and gets approval of the CIO of JobsOhio and the director of development, they will automatically get that tax credit. We’ve seen that work with other states. Q: How were the regional partners chosen? KVAMME: We sat down and said, ‘Who are the top private development organizations we can work with across the state?’ We canvassed the state to see who the key folks are who have resources and capability and have been doing it for awhile. If you really look at the (Dayton Development Coalition), Columbus 2020 and Cincinnati USA, the way they’re set up is almost identical to the way JobsOhio is being set up. Q: When it comes to keep large corporations in Ohio, is JobsOhio going to take the lead? SCHMENK: Attraction is important, but 80 percent of the new jobs will come from companies already here. And one of the things the JobsOhio network will do for us is to focus on a coordinated statewide retention and attraction program that the state hasn’t ever had in the past. JOE COGLIANO is a reporter for the Dayton Business Journal, an affiliated newspaper. 937-528-4424 | jcogliano@bizjournals.com

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With a flurry of mergers and acquisitions in several industries made public Aug. 15, observers are keenly looking for potential banking deals. That’s what Matthew Monks of American Banker did Aug. 15 in an article in which he wrote that Columbus-based Huntington Bancshares Inc. could be primed to start buying other banks. Monks wrote that Huntington has the capital, share price and location to be “well positioned as a buyer.� His trade pub report is only available by subscription. Monks noted in the report that Huntington has stated its focus is on growth by making more loans and opening more accounts versus buying other banks. But he tossed in a July comment from Huntington CEO Steve Steinour in which he left the door open on deal making. “We have the capacity and the capital and the talent to acquire if we choose to,� he told the publication last month. The American Banker piece identified likely acquirers as U.S. Bancorp of Minneapolis, ADRIAN Pittsburgh-based PNC BURNS Financial Services Group Inc. and M&T Bank Corp. of Buffalo, N.Y., saying they “are easy to spot – they have relatively valuable shares and a history of deal making.� It put Huntington in the “not-quiteready-but-getting-there club,� which also included Cleveland’s KeyCorp and Fifth Third Bancorp of Cincinnati.

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Linda Logan doesn’t think it’s a stretch to say a new Major League Lacrosse franchise in Central Ohio can do for that sport what the Columbus Crew and Blue Jackets have done for soccer and hockey. Logan, executive director of Greater Columbus Sports Commission, told me that Aug. 16 after she attended an event at which MLL’s JEFF new Ohio Machine team BELL confirmed what we reported Monday, that it will play its home games next year at Ohio Wesleyan University’s Selby Field in Delaware. Interest in soccer and hockey, especially at the youth level, started to really take off after the Crew came to town in 1996 and the Jackets debuted in 2000, Logan said. “I anticipate that happening for lacrosse,� she said. “It will generate a lot more demand for great competition in (Central Ohio).� That could lead to good things for the Sports Commission, which is charged

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A&F faces difficult Situation Abercrombie & Fitch Co. thinks the Situation is a grenade to their brand (i.e., unattractive and they’d rather not take him home for the night). Michael “The Situation� Sorrentino, one of the colorful cast members of MTV’s Jersey Shore, in addition to GTL (gym, tanning, laundry), cooking Sunday dinner and hooking up with skanks, also likes to wear Abercrombie & Fitch. The New Albany-based retailer isn’t down with that and has offered the Sitch and the show’s producers “substantial payment� to wear another brand. “We are deeply concerned that Mr. Sorrentino’s association with our brand could cause significant damage to our image,� a statement from the company reads. – DAN EATON with landing major sporting events that bring visitors and their money to Central Ohio. The Crew’s presence has helped attract headline events such as World Cup qualifiers and Major League Soccer ’s allstar game, while the Jackets have turned Columbus into a hockey city worthy of hosting the NCAA ’s Frozen Four in 2005. With the Ohio Machine’s arrival in the region, the commission already is eyeing Major League Lacrosse’s all-star game and championship weekend, as well as NCAA lacrosse tournaments and the U.S. Lacrosse Festival.

Nationwide CFO sees U.S. avoiding recession The man in charge of the money at Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. says he doesn’t think the U.S. is headed back into recession – but he’s not foreseeing boom times anytime soon, either. CFO Mark Thresher said during a discussion about second-quarter results that businesses Nationwide insures have expanded this year – albeit slowly. “On the commercial side, we’re starting to see exposures grow again,� he said, referring to payroll and revenue levels that often determine insurance premiums. Such slow but unspectacular growth in the economy should continue for the remainder of 2011, he said. “We haven’t changed our view,� Thresher said. “We think it is sluggish, slow growth.� – ADRIAN BURNS

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Time Warner Cable buying Insight In an effort to expand its reach in the Midwest, Time Warner Cable Inc. has struck a deal to buy cable operator Insight Communications for $3 billion. Both companies connect with thousands of TV customers in Central Ohio. New York-based Time Warner said its cash purchase of privately held Insight, which also makes its home in New York, brings it more 750,000 customers in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky and eventually should save up to $100 million a year. Time Warner counts more than 2 million customers in Ohio and ranks as one of Central Ohio’s 50 largest employers with more than 1,000 workers, according to Columbus Business First research. Insight’s lone subscriber base in the Buckeye State includes pockets of east Central Ohio that add up to fewer than 100,000 subscribers, spokesman Jason Keller said. The 3,000-employee company also has a small administrative contingent on the east side of Columbus but bases the vast majority of its staff in Louisville, he said. Keller referred questions on the potential work-force impact of the acquisition to Time Warner Cable, where a spokes-

man declined to comment. While the deal requires regulatory approval, it marks the largest transaction for Time Warner Cable since it was separated from Time Warner Inc. in 2009.

Smucker investors want report on global warming’s impact A fight is brewing over J.M. Smucker Co.’s coffee, and it won’t be played out in the kitchen. The iconic Orrville-based jelly maker and purveyor of Folgers and other coffee brands is locked in a proxy battle with a group of investors that was to take the form of a shareholder resolution at the company’s annual meeting Aug. 17. At issue: Whether Smucker is doing enough to reconcile its coffee production practices with climate change and environmental sustainability practices. Investors Trillium Asset Management LLC and Calvert Investments Inc. wrote in a recent regulatory filing that they’re concerned about maintaining the financial health of the company’s coffee business in the face of climate change. The pair wants Smucker to release a report in six months on how it will deal with the “social and environmental risks and opportunities” on the business, which accounted for 40 percent of its $4.8 billion revenue haul in the last fiscal year. The group also wants Smucker to make public how it will address changing temperatures and rainfall patterns along with the company’s “responsibility for its impact on the coffee-farming families in its supply chain.” Smucker called the proposal “unnecessary, duplicative and inappropriate,” saying it just released a corporate responsibility report that addresses those issues. Trillium and Calvert apparently weren’t satisfied with the report, writing in their letter that only one of its 38 pages discussed the coffee business and none touched on climate change.

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Graeter’s bulking up in Cincy Ramped-up ice cream production from a year-old plant at Graeter’s Manufacturing Co.’s Cincinnati headquarters will mean a reduced presence at the company’s Bethel Road operation in Columbus. The ice cream maker and retailer said it is moving forward with a previously disclosed plan to consolidate ice cream production at a 28,000-square-foot facility that opened in June 2010. All ice cream production at the Bethel Road shop and another plant in Cincinnati will be moved there, which will cost 20 full-time jobs between the two operations. The company didn’t provide a time line on the shift or detail how many jobs are being cut in Columbus. Graeter’s said both sites will remain retail storefronts and administrative offices while continuing to turn out ice cream cakes, pies and toppings.

Ohio is losing more corporate citizens than it’s gaining, according to new data from Atlas Van Lines. In 2010, nearly 60 percent of the moves by corporations were out of Ohio, rather than into the state, according to Atlas’ annual Migration Patterns study. Ohio had the highest percentage of outbound moves in the country. Only 1,819 companies moved into the state last year, while 2,682 companies left the state. This marks the eighth consecutive year Ohio has been dubbed an outbound location, with more workers being transferred out of the state than in. The state or district with the highest percentage of inbound relocations was Washington, D.C., where 68 percent of corporate moves were into the area. The study, based on input from human resources executives, tracked nearly 75,000 moves in 2010.

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etting hired shouldn’t be so complicated. Neither job seekers nor hiring managers like corporate bureaucracy. Laborious search tactics, including applicant tracking systems, have made selecting workers more difficult. Decision makers are frustrated, and too frequently sincere job seekers looking to impress collide with their impatience. At times it is the candidate who makes the chore of hiring easy who becomes the chosen one. In order to improve your odds of staying in the good graces of the fast-moving hiring manager, consider these points found on every hiring decision maker’s

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wish list, including mine: I HAVE NO TIME FOR LIFE STORIES: I wish candidates would leave their history monologues at the door. I am looking for specifics from a candidate, and when I am forced to hear about every job a candidate ever held and chat about his football record, military assignments and corporate conferences, he loses my atten-

tion and with it any thought that I might ultimately offer him a job. Surely he believed that I would fixate on something if he told me everything. Not true. I don’t always need to know how the clock is made. Just tell me the time. YOU EITHER KNOW IT OR YOU DON’T: I’m offended by claims on your résumé that don’t measure up. I called you in because I needed someone to bring expertise in a specific technology, and you led me to believe you were proficient at it. Maybe you studied in school what I require or were trained on the job. But when I ask for two to five years’ experience and you, believing you’re a quick learner, show up in my office for an

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interview after telling me something different, I lose faith in your integrity. I have been known to train new hires in certain areas, but not those who misrepresent themselves from the beginning. DON’T TRY SO HARD, BE WHO YOU ARE: I wish you’d cut the act. You fool no one when at 50 you dress like you’re 20 years younger. Your using the slang of another generation leads me to believe you lack an identity, and that distracts me from evaluating where you would fit into my firm. I wish you’d stop telling me that you don’t look your age. I have far more respect for the candidate who takes pride in who she is. UNDERSTAND MY NEEDS: I wish a candidate could walk into my office and immediately solve my problems. Interviewing is not enjoyable because it takes me away from my job. I am always hoping that the next interview will bring my next hire. But too many times you candidates arrive knowing very little about my company, and I wonder why you ever agreed to visit. My next hire will have a viable purpose for pursuing my company. He will understand my industry and how my company fares when others can’t survive. He will have learned what keeps me awake at night, and he will offer far more than canned answers to my interview questions. Want to work for me? Then bring some good ideas in that fancy folder. DON’T HOLD ME TO DEADLINES: OK, I’m the one under pressure to fill the position. But things happen that wreck the deadlines we make, and normally they have nothing to do with you. I wish candidates would stop hanging on my every word and stop becoming emotional when the timing doesn’t progress the way they’d hoped. It is fine to check back with me once, but don’t get paranoid or even worse, turn combative. DON’T PLAY MONEY GAMES: If I ask for an estimate of required compensation and you respond by stating money doesn’t matter, I know you are playing the game of duck and dive. There’s no point in initiating a relationship if I can’t afford you or if you have an inflated pay requirement. This how it works: I need to fill a job that fits my budget, but just because I request a figure doesn’t mean I plan to pay you as little as I can, even in this tough economic climate. REASONABLE NEGOTIATIONS: I wish candidates wouldn’t focus on compensation so quickly in the interview. Yes, job seekers want to know if they’re pursuing a realistic opportunity, but the beginning of a hiring procedure is never the time to begin negotiating for pay. The optimum time to negotiate a compensation package comes after an offer has been extended. And you need a better rationale than that new graduate degree if you want more dough. JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE PERFECT FOR THE JOB DOESN’T MEAN YOU’RE PERFECT FOR MY COMPANY: I wish candidates would realize companies are made up of departments inhabited by human temperaments. If my group consists of reserved personalities, your fast-paced work style may create mayhem. If your work style is more methodical and our project goals tend to change rapidly, you may not be a good fit. You might meet and exceed every single requirement, but so will many others, and I need a compatible persona. JANICE WORTHINGTON is executive director of Worthington Career Services, a career management firm in Columbus. 614-890-1645 | janice@worthingtonresumes.com

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ately it seems when I watch ESPN, I see another pitcher throwing a temper tantrum after a poor performance. San Francisco Giants star relief pitcher Brian Wilson melted down when he was pulled from a game in the ninth inning. He heaved the water cooler against the bench, then grabbed a bat and pummeled the cooler. Afterwards, he said, “Give yourself 30 seconds to completely lose it, then come back and be part of the team.” Did I hear that correctly? Does that mean it’s okay for your teenager to trash the house after a rough day at school – just for 30 seconds? Or should the employee who blows up at work be forgiven for knocking over the water cooler? That only takes 5 seconds. How about people who go crazy verbally and cuss a blue streak? A lot of very nasty and damaging words can be uttered in half a minute. Is this out-of-control behavior acceptable? Absolutely not. These hotheads don’t understand that every time you lose your temper you advertise yourself – and you’re not selling a positive. Keeping your temper in check is not just essential, it’s the mark of a professional. Consider these ideas: Figure out what you’re really angry about. Is your discontent a carryover from previous events? Count to 10 – 20 or 30 if necessary. Just as you can’t un-ring a bell, taking back angry words is impossible. Give the other side a break, even if you think they’re wrong. You may discover there are other unrelated factors at work that are guiding the discussion. Never fight a battle just so you can say you won. You’ll be labeled a bully. Accept that some things are just beyond your control.

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f you’ve ever taken a vacation to Florence, S.C., it’s doubtful you would get this city confused with Florence, Italy. But it does happen, and if you’re Stacy McKay Benander, you find a way to correct it quickly. “One time we had a student who was going to study abroad in Florence, Italy, and on the very day that that student was scheduled to depart, her parent called alled our office in a frenzy because when the girl went to the airport to check eck in for her flight, she realized she purchased d a flight to Florence, South uth Carolina,” she said. “So So we had to do some fast ast footwork and within a half hour, we were able le to find her a flight to aher intended destination, Florence, Italy.” d Such details, and

less crucial ones, are Benander’s bread and butter. Or shall we say her pane e burro? “Something that is a challenge is that you don’t have anyone else to fall back on,” she said. “Sometimes it feels like being a parent in a strange way.” Granted, situations like the errant ticket buyer have happened rarely in the fiveyear existence of Gahanna-based Athena Study Abroad, the company Benander p g students to founded to expose college the w wonders and varied

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About 130 to 140 students a year use Athena Study Abroad’s services, which are offered for spring, fall and summer semesters. “That is supposed to be the idea,” she said, “that they have no questions that we can’t answer.” Rebecca Mobley, who is unfamiliar with Athena Study Abroad, said having a single facilitator to arrange foreign student excursions is invaluable. The interim chairwoman of the Social Science department at Columbus State Community College has led such trips to Mexico and China. The Mexican government helped Mobley with that trip, but she enlisted a travel agency for the China trip that brought needed expertise regarding regional cultures and geography, for instance. “What the private company offered was all the arrangements,” she said. There is value to studying abroad that goes well beyond learning a new language, said Benander, whose company is named after Athena, the ancient Greek goddess of wisdom. Students develop a more threedimensional perspective of themselves and the world by seeing far-off lands and experiencing a new way of living. “It is so important that our leaders and students have a global mindset,” she said. CRAIG LOVELACE is a freelance writer.

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Still serving INTERNET PIONEER COMPUSERVE has plenty of alumni whose hearts remain tied to the formative years they spent in its old Upper Arlington headquarters. As they’ve scattered to dozens of other companies and ventures of their own, they’ve helped to advance Central Ohio’s technology industry. BY CARRIE GHOSE | BUSINESS FIRST

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Wearing his allegiance Damian Synadinos stood out among the first attendees at the reunion, not because at 37 he’s younger than the company but because he was wearing a papery-textured windbreaker emblazoned with the CompuServe logo from a 1990s product launch. Synadinos started at CompuServe as an intern while a 19-year-old Ohio State University student and stayed four years, wooed away just before the WorldCom sale. “Until my current job, it was the longest job I’ve ever held,” he said. He moved on to other companies, always a quality assurance tester, making sure software interfaces for consumers weren’t buggy before release. Now he’s doing that for flight scheduling software at Columbus-based NetJets Inc. “It’s always interesting when you talk to somebody and they worked at CompuServe, too,” he said.

ompuServe Interactive Services Inc., a subsidiary of AOL Inc., is a discount Internet connection service tucked into a Dublin office park. But that’s not CompuServe. In Central Ohio, CompuServe Corp. is the company that never went away. Founded in 1969 and broken up in 1998, it has woven itself into the DNA of everyday online experience and the IT industry. Its pull is so strong that about 160 former employees showed up for a mixer and tour this month at the company’s former Upper Arlington headquarters, now owned by a private school that rents out the complex’s concrete-walled data center to cloud computing provider Expedient Communications. Attendees hugged, slapped backs, took cellphone pictures, hunted for their old cubicles, gathered again in the auditorium and laughed at co-founder Jeff Wilkins’ opening line: “I’d like to welcome you to the CompuServe all-company meeting.” Every person interviewed said since leaving they’ve never worked at a company like it. They’d once counted 100 “CompuCouples” – pairs who met at or brought their spouses into the company. In a Q&A session, the first question shouted to Wilkins was, “Are you hiring?” “All organizations have a culture. CompuServe had a cult,” said Roger Blackwell, former Ohio State University marketing professor and a past CompuServe director who attended the reunion. “It was the Google of the ‘80s.”

‘BUNCH OF HAIR-ON-FIRE KIDS’ Close bonds among the alumni were forged as 20-somethings tackling the then-new concept of home computer usage, said Paul Lambert, who started at CompuServe in 1973 and left successor Verizon Communications Inc. in SEE CULT, PAGE 26

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James White, right, had two stints as a CompuServe programmer in the 1970s, then returned to his native Pittsburgh as an IT consultant. His son, John, was born in Pittsburgh, where he got a job with Expedient. When it expanded to Central Ohio last year, he was one of the sales engineering team sent to his dad’s old workplace for months at a time. “Not only have we repurposed the building, we repurposed the next generation,� James White said.

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COMPUSERVE EXECS: WHERE ARE THEY NOW? Jeff Wilkins: CompuServe Corp. co-founder left the company in 1985 after selling it to H&R Block Inc. He founded Metatec International Inc. and went on to other technology companies. He now is chairman of Health Care DataWorks, which helps hospitals unite and analyze electronic medical and financial data to find efficiencies.

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FROM PAGE 25 2000 as vice president of network technology. “We were a bunch of hair-onfire kids trying to figure out what this industry was all about,� he said. “We grew up together. “We continue to have some of our closest relationships with our colleagues,� said Lambert, who has lunch every Wednesday with two to 20 CompuServe alumni. Employing about 3,600 worldwide at its peak, and about 7,000 through its history, the company was the first to popularize personal email, online shopping and news browsers. Its top software engineer invented the GIF format, those postage-stamp sized animated loops key to viral parodies and online ads. “We didn’t invent everything. We invented a lot of stuff,� Lambert said. “We put a lot of pieces together that were floating around. We didn’t invent the personal computer, but we sure did take advantage of them.� CompuServe was 80 percent owned by tax giant H&R Block Inc. when it was split up and sold off in 1998, with consumer Web services going to AOL Time Warner (now just AOL Inc.) and its business and networking expertise to WorldCom Inc., itself later acquired by Verizon. As the online revolution exploded, it became harder for Internet connectivity companies to compete with telecommunications giants such as Time Warner and AT&T, who now dominate home Internet connections, Lambert said. “People who own the wires control the market,� he said. AOL wound down the Upper Arlington operations, shuttering the building in 2007 and moving the last vestiges of the brand to Dublin. The old headquarters SEE LEGACY, PAGE 27

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LEGACY: Offices, people in distant regions connected FROM PAGE 26 was sold last year to Tree of Life Christian Schools, but the city doesn’t want a school in the office portion. Expedient rents the data building from the school. Some company workers went to Silicon Valley and points elsewhere, but many CompuServe executives and engineers went on to software companies and IT departments throughout the region. Hundreds still work for Verizon worldwide. Internet access is no longer dialup, but the ideas CompuServe stood for remain influential, said Janel Crabtree, director of analyst relations for Verizon Business in Hilliard. She started when it was CompuServe in 1993. “The need to connect offices and people around the globe is still there,” she said. “(CompuServe) did create a lot of great leaders who continue to bring those skills into other companies.” About 30 CompuServe alumni work at Dublin-based OCLC Inc., and reunion attendees said many SEE IT, PAGE 29

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She turned out the lights Karen Szabo – shown here talking with Allen Wang, who was in database administration in the AOL days – started in CompuServe’s facilities department as an administrative assistant in 1992 and worked up to management under AOL. “I closed the building down,” she said. When AOL left the building in 2007, she was one of the last ones to stay through to clean up and make sure it was secure. “It was the end of a really great career. It was always about the people,” she said. She said the building hasn’t changed much. Owner Tree of Life Christian Schools allowed reunion attendees to wander throughout the mostly vacant structure; one found CompuServe product manuals from the 1990s still on a desk. Szabo now works in the membership call center at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium. “I still use the CompuServe email service,” she said.

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Jim Smith was one of the first CompuServe employees hired in 1970, and he stayed until H&R Block downsized in 1995 in advance of the sale. Then 60, Smith opted to retire and volunteers teaching computer skills at senior centers. “I can’t picture myself working anywhere else,” he said. “It was just a terrific blend of people.”

An employee in the AOL division of Netscape (another Internet access provider acquired about the same time as CompuServe) later added the “repeat” command, hence the dancing babies in endless loops. “I was somewhat amused,” he said. In 2000, Wilhite had a stroke during a medical procedure. He returned to work but took an AOL buyout and retired on stock options the next year. He returned to the Cincinnati area where he grew up, and watches his creations proliferate. “Officially, PNG (Portable Network Graphics format) was to replace GIF on Web, yet there are millions of GIFs floating through the Internet every day,” he said. Bob Root started in 1977, developing technical education courses for corporate customers. He went with WorldCom in the sale and retired from Verizon. “This was the best place ever to work,” he said of CompuServe. “They cared about your family and your family life.”

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Steve Wilhite also started in 1970, his first job, and became CompuServe’s principal software architect. He said via email that he invented the Graphics Interchange Format – or GIF, he pronounces it “jif” – as a way to transmit simple animation with the least amount of memory.

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Former CompuServe employees, including Jim Smith, in profile at right, toured their company’s old data center building with Expedient employees, such as Matthew D’Eramo, laughing at left. Expedient now operates there.

‘Missionary marketing’ David Ditmars was a marketer for CompuServe just shy of three years in the 1980s, but said it has informed his work since. “There was a sense of group entrepreneurship,” he said. “It was missionary marketing. There was no such thing as an online source of information then.” He left the company for Battelle, working in a software division that was sold off and grew, then went on to positions at the former Qwest Communications International Inc. and then Central Ohio software companies. Laid off last fall, he consults, sits on advisory boards and volunteers. Jason Comstock also worked in marketing for CompuServe, but in the 1990s. He went to Verizon, then had a series of tech jobs and now is an IT consultant to small businesses. “I do things today that I can point back and say, ‘I learned that at CompuServe,’ ” he said.

FROM PAGE 27 went on to build up Columbus-based Sterling Commerce Inc., which IBM Corp. bought from AT&T Inc. last year. Other alumni went to Ohio State University, Nationwide, NetJets Inc. and Pinnacle Data Systems Inc. “There’s a whole bunch of entrepreneurs who have small below-the-radar outfits,” Lambert said. Wilkins left in 1985 to found now-defunct CD- and DVD-ROM manufacturing business Metatec International Inc. He now is chairman of Health Care DataWorks, an Ohio State spinoff software business. He told the rapt reunion group it was fun to be back and reminisced about the days he and his father-in-law started the company in a West Fifth Avenue storefront as a spinoff of an insurance company’s IT department. “A mainframe cost a million dollars and had less computing power than the iPhone in most of your pockets,” Wilkins said. But plenty has come full circle, he said. Back then, CompuServe was renting out computing power in the insurer’s mainframes outside business hours. The event’s host, Pittsburgh-based Expedient, has a network of eight data centers nationwide, including Upper Arlington, where clients store their data in shared servers. “It’s timesharing,” he said to big laughs. “I say we were doing it in 1972.” On a tour, regional account executive Matthew D’Eramo said Expedient reused a lot of CompuServe’s generators, buried power lines and other technology. The computing power is another story. “It’s like comparing the space shuttle to a moped,” Wilkins said. Wilkins said he’s glad not only that the building has new life, but that data centers and other network providers in the region are growing. “It enhances the reputation of Columbus as a big data town,” he said. 614-220-5458 | cghose@bizjournals.com

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People to Know DARREN YEAGER Director of business operations, Teksystems Age: 40 Years with company: 17 Education: Bachelor’s in arts & sciences, Ohio State University First job: Aerotek RICH GRUNENWALD Managing director, Experis Age: 52 Years with company: 7 Education: B.S./B.A., Ohio State University; MBA, University of Dayton First job: Computer operator Favorite website: linkedin.com Lives in: Hilliard PATTY LICKLITER General manager, Dedicated Technologies Inc. Age: 54 Years with company: 14 Education: Harper College, Palatine, Ill. First job: General manager, Dobbs-Airline Catering Co. Lives in: West Jefferson Hobby: Grandchildren

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FOOTNOTES 1. Full-time computer consultants in Central Ohio employed by firm. 2. Full-time computer consultants in Central Ohio not employed by firm (contract staff, independent agents). 3. Other Central Ohio staff and employees. 4. Local consultants previously counted who are working at client sites for staff augmentation.

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 9 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 21 23 24 25 25

RANK COMPANY NAME LAST ADDRESS YEAR CITY, ZIP PHONE • WEBSITE

2010 FULLTIME EMPLOYEES: OTHER/ REVENUE: TECHNOLOGY CENTRAL OHIO/ CONSULTANTS: OFFSITE COMPANY EMPLOYEE1/ CONSULTING CONTRACT2 STAFF

PARTIAL LIST OF COMPANY’S LOCAL FOCUS OR AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

LOCAL: FOUNDED/ TOP EXECUTIVE/ CONSULTING EXECUTIVE

Technology staffing and services

1995/ Darren Yeager/ NA

1

Teksystems 5115 Parkcenter Ave., Suite 170, Dublin 43017 614-789-6210 • teksystems.com

500/ 50

51/ 550

WND/ $2.4 billion

3

Information Control Corp. 2500 Corporate Exchange Drive, Columbus 43231 614-523-3070 • iccohio.com

430/ 50

55/ 180

$46 million/ Business intelligence, digital media, same application integration, collaborative/shared systems, infrastructure support services

2

Accenture 250 West St., Columbus 43215 614-629-2000 • accenture.com

410/ 0

10/ 0

WND/ $21.55 billion

Consulting and outsourcing, specialize in financial services, products, resources, public services, communication

1982/ Jim Struntz/ same

4

Sogeti USA LLC, a Capgemini SA Co. 8425 Pulsar Place, Suite 300, Columbus 43240 614-847-4477 • us.sogeti.com

290/ 30

15/ 120

WND/ $13 billion

Testing, commerce, mobile, cloud, business information management, infrastructure, enterprise architecture

1987/ John Schwab/ same

6

Modis Consulting 130 E. Wilson Bridge Road, Suite 330 Worthington 43085, 614-781-6070 • modis.com

180/ 40

12/ 220

$20 million/ WND

Contract, contract-to-hire and direct hire, projects, outsourcing

1986/ Monty Ragland/ NA

5

Quick Solutions Inc. 440 Polaris Parkway, Suite 500, Westerville 43082 614-825-8000 • quicksolutions.com

170/ 15

30/ 137

$23.1 million/ same

Software design/development, network design/support, project management, Web development, agile coaching

1991/ Tom Campbell/ Jerry Jones

NR

Experis 175 S. Third St., Suite 375, Columbus 43015 614-223-2300 • experis.us/clients.htm

150/ 35

11/ 120

$18 million/ $1.8 billion

Placement services in IT, engineering, finance and accounting

1995/Richard Grunenwald/ same

Careworks Technologies 5555 Glendon Court, Dublin 43016 614-336-4682 • careworkstech.com

138/ 21

16/ 116

WND

NR

Management and IT consulting, interactive design and development, infrastructure services, software development

2000/ Todd Cameron/ Tim James

ComResource Inc. 1159 Dublin Road, Suite 200, Columbus 43215 614-221-6348 • comresource.com

120/ 20

14/ 132

WND

11

Project management, business/software integration, IT infrastructure delivery services, data storage solutions

1991/ Gary Potts/ Keith Potts

Fast Switch Ltd. 37 W. Bridge St., Suite 200, Dublin 43017 614-336-1122 • fastswitch.com

120/ 49

21/ 169

$14.3 million/ $25.4 million

IT consultants

16

1996/ Mark Pukita/ Randy Dean

14

Kforce Inc. 200 E. Campus View Blvd., Suite 225 Columbus 43235 614-776-3200 • kforce.com

114/ 33

19/ 147

$14.5 million/ $990 million

Provides contract technical resources and permanent placement services for corporations of all sizes

1981/ Randy Wilcox/ same

7

Unicon International Inc. 241 Outerbelt St., Columbus 43213 614-861-7070 • unicon-intl.com

112/ 85

22/ 189

$22.7 million/ $24.8 million

Web application development, risk management, project management, system integration

1990/Pei-Chen Jane Lee/ Mike McAlear

Strategic Systems Inc. 5200 Upper Metro Place, Suite 120, Dublin 43017 614-717-4774 • strsi.com

102/ 16

8/ 23

$4.6 million/ $10.7 million

IT services

22

2004/Sankar Mangapuram/ same

Centric Consulting LLC 2235 Bryton Drive, Powell 43065 888-781-7567 • centricconsulting.com

100/ 10

5/ 110

WND

10

Strategy, process and technology consulting that competes with tier 1 organizations

2001/ Jason Pohl/ Chad Caldwell

8

Tekmark Global Solutions LLC 7965 N. High St., Suite 205, Columbus 43235 614-523-4248 • tekmarkinc.com

80/ 0

10/ 80

$11.7 million/ $113.4 million

IT staffing and consulting, application development, project management, systems integration

1990/ Roger Beck/ same

Maximation LLC 2257A Westbrook Drive, Building H, Columbus 43228, 614-777-2082 • maximation.com

78/ 0

8/ 7

WND

9

Contract programming services, outsourcing, network service and repair

1991/Ronald Brown/Pam Kolb, Rick Brown

HMB Information System Developers 191 W. Nationwide Blvd., Suite 650, Columbus 43215, 614-221-6831 • hmbnet.com

77/ 14

5/ 9

WND

12

Application design, development, integration, portals and collaboration, rich internet applications, cloud

1994/ John Mackessy/ Tom Harris

21

Sapphire Technologies 445 Hutchinson Ave., Suite 850, Columbus 43235 614-436-0961 • sapphire.com

75/ 0

7/ 75

WND/ $385 million

Staffing augmentation on a contract and contract-to-hire basis, permanent placement, ERP services and project services

2005/ Kelli Shannon/ NA

19

Cardinal Solutions Group Inc. 401 N. Front St., Suite 210, Columbus 43215 614-545-3860 • cardinalsolutions.com

74/ 1

5/ 50

$7 million/ Consulting and training, system integration $25.5 million for enterprise content management, portals, document management, mobile

2004/ Nick Peterson/ Jeff Hunsaker

12

Paragon Group 104 N. Hamilton Road, Gahanna 43230 614-472-0080 • theparagongroup-inc.com

73/ 3

8/ 73

$4.9 million/ same

Staffing, audit, project management, VOIP, infrastructure, voice and data

1998/ Joe Kubina/ same

19

American Business Solutions Inc. 8850 Whitney Drive, Lewis Center 43035 614-917-2274 • absi-usa.com

70/ 30

21/ 65

$5 million/ $7.8 million

Web development, software service and support, training, IT projects, staff augmentation

1998/ Rajeev Dubey/ Andre Williams

18

Oxford Consulting Group Inc. 385 County Line Road W., Westerville 43085 614-310-2700 • oxford-consulting.com

70/ 50

22/ 70

$12 million/ $14 million

Strategic staffing, business integration, multichannel commerce, IT risk management

2008/ Michelle Kerr/ Chad Mead

14

Dedicated Technologies Inc. 580 N. Fourth St., Suite 280, Columbus 43215, 614-460-3200 • dedicatedtech.com

67/ 9

13/ 76

$8.5 million/ $9 million

IT consulting, development, enterprise support, project delivery and security

1997/ Jeffrey Dalton/ same

Navigator Management Partners LLC 450 S. Front St., Columbus 43215 614-796-0090 • navmp.com

59/ 20

3/ 20

$11.3 million/ $14.1 million

IT and management consulting services

16

2001/David Schoettmer/ same

NR

Diversified Systems Inc. 700 Taylor Road, Suite 150, Gahanna 43230 614-476-9939 • diversifiedsystems.com

30/ 10

7/ 30

$5.5 million/ Systems integration, program and project $7.5 million management, database support and design

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Manifest Solutions 2035 Riverside Drive, Columbus 43221 614-930-2800 • manifestsc.com

30/ 28

15/ 55

$7.5 million/ same

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outlays and still upgrade their computing environments. Companies have put off major upgrades to their own data rooms and are now at a point where they need a new generator or additional cooling. When situations like this happen, the conversation always goes to a build versus buy analysis, and many companies decide they no longer want to be in the facilities business – they would rather outsource. Another area we spend a lot of time on is disaster recovery planning. The amount of data companies are generating is staggering and many businesses are required to keep this data for years, which compounds the issue. The other trend is that as companies become more reliant on their computing environment, they have much less tolerance for down time. Three years ago, many companies would set recovery goals that were measured in days, and now they set targets to have critical systems available in minutes. How much demand is there in a market like this for data protection? When most people think of disaster recovery, the first things that come to mind are the major natural disasters, but the most common disasters are much more localized such as fires or a water leak from the roof or a broken pipe. Other things that are often classified as a disaster – anything that takes the business offline for an extended period of time. Some common examples would be a power outage from an ice storm or a car accident that takes out a telephone pole. Is there an advantage to not being in the central city? The biggest advantages to us not being located in a multitenant building in the central city are mainly physical and convenience. Our building is single-story with bunker-type construction, so we don’t have to worry about who is above or below us and if their bathroom is going to leak into our data center or if construction that another tenant is doing will impact our electricity or network connectivity.

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Recycling, refurbishing old business computers COMMUNITY COMPUTER ALLIANCE connects the needy with technology. BY MELISSA KOSSLER DUTTON | FOR BUSINESS FIRST

COMMUNITY COMPUTER ALLIANCE 371 Maier Place, Suite 15 Columbus 43215 Phone: 614-824-5587 Fax: 614-754-8842 Website: ccompa.org Revenue FY2011: $4,958 Other program income: $1,555 Recycling proceeds: $1,530

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Mission: To make technology available to the community that needs it the most – low income families, disabled individuals and senior citizens – at no cost by refurbishing donated systems, and to help individuals develop computer skills, improving their opportunities in the work force. Executive staff: Dan Hurst, executive director; and James Hurst, vice president. Board members: Dan Hurst, executive director; James Hurst, vice president; Don Schindelholz, secretary; and Kevin Connors, executive board member. Paid staff: 1 Volunteers: 80 Fundraisers: Quarterly recycling events. Quick facts: Organization re-uses or recycles more than 99 percent of items that come through its doors. All recipients complete a free computer literacy class. Organization has received more than 40,000 pounds of materials. Waiting list to receive refurbished computer systems is longer than six months.

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ob hunters need computers to find openings, create resumes and submit applications. That’s why the computer lab at the Exit Program is indispensable, said Michele Johnson, founder and CEO of the Columbus organization that helps formerly incarcerated men and women rebuild their lives. The program is able to provide the lab because of a donation from the Community Computer Alliance. The Columbus-based nonprofit organization refurbishes donated computers and provides them to organizations and individuals in need. “The need is huge,” said Dan Hurst, executive director of the organization. “It’s amazing how many people don’t have access to technology.” Hurst founded the alliance while working for a retail company that would often receive broken computers. Hurst wanted to do something other than recycle or discard the parts. The organization focuses on rebuilding computers that can be fixed and properly recycling parts that cannot be repaired. He recycles 99 percent of the unusable parts. “When people hear about what we’re doing with old computers, they get a good feeling of helping the community,” he said. “A lot of our donors are very earth-conscious and are very happy to get rid of their equipment.”

WHERE OLD COMPUTERS GO The Community Computer Alliance receives computers by holding recycling events and working with companies that have old machines they no longer need. “We try to hold recycling events once a quarter to raise awareness about our organization,” Hurst said. He would like to partner with more businesses in order to re-

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Dan Hurst, right, wants the people who receive his refurbished computers to know how to fix them, so his Community Computer Alliance offers classes. While many who get the free systems are low-income individuals and senior citizens, other nonprofit organizations also benefit. That includes David Cofer, managing director of Community Development for All People. ceive larger donations of workable computers. People who qualify for computers currently wait about a year for them.

One of the difficulties in finding suitable computers is that people are concerned that information left on the computer

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will be compromised, Hurst said. Sometimes people will damage the hard drive in an effort to protect their information. Smashing a hard drive or drilling holes into it does not prevent a hacker from gaining access, he said. Instead, it only destroys his organization’s ability to reuse the part. Hurst said he has gone to great lengths to shield donors from an invasion of their privacy. The organization has a secure process of removing the donor’s data and information from the computers, Hurst said. “The hard drives of all the machines we take are completely wiped to our high standards,” he said. “We have the highest possible standards in place.” The agency also is licensed and bonded to further protect donors. Once the computers are refurbished, the organization gives them to senior citizens, individuals who meet federal poverty standards and other nonprofit organizations. Individuals and groups who receive computers must take Hurst’s class on how to run and repair the machine. “We want them to know how to fix the computer themselves,” Hurst said. Hurst hopes to add other classes in the future. He’d like to provide opportunities for people to earn certifications in computer repair and technology that would be useful in helping them gain employment, he said. The computers the Exit Program received have helped numerous program participants find jobs in a touwgh economy, Johnson said. Clients also use the computers to take online classes and look for housing, she said. “To give us five computers was just phenomenal,” she said. “We have definitely benefited from it.”

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plaintiff case #04 CV 000364 07/26/11 CHAPTER 7 State of Ohio v. Ismail Group of Industries 2330 Harrisburg Pike Inc. (address not shown) 2330 Harrisburg Pike $46,333 Grove City 43123 plaintiff Assets: $0 case #04 CV 013651 Debts: $425,599 07/26/11 Major Creditor: UPS Capital Business Credit State of Ohio v. G.A. Keranis S.A. $165,000 (address not shown) Attorney: Garry A. Sabol $2,155,438 case #11-58021 plaintiff 08/02/11 case #04 CV 008909 07/26/11 State of Ohio v. American Virginia I.N.D. C.O.M. E.X.P. de Tabacos LTDA (address not shown) JUDGMENTS $149,702 plaintiff DELAWARE COUNTY case #04 CV 010072 William P. Frederick and Mar07/26/11 garet M. Frederick v. Webster State of Ohio v. Soex India Building Co. Inc. aka Webster P.V.T. Ltd. Building Co./Jody W. Parks Northgate Park Drive aka Jody Parks Winston Salem, N.C. 27106 637 Ross Road $30,226 Sunbury 43074 plaintiff $75,000 case #05 CV 000734 plaintiff 07/26/11 case #10 CVH 03 0509 08/04/11 State of Ohio v. Keblon S.A. (address not shown) FRANKLIN COUNTY $2,822,681 State of Ohio v. G.A. Keranis S.A. plaintiff case #05 CV 005312 (address not shown) 07/26/11 $344,371 plaintiff Caterpillar Financial Services case #02 CV 013958 Corp. v. J&A Transportation 07/26/11 LLC/John D. Schleppi 6137 Winnebago St. State of Ohio v. N.V. Sumatra Grove City 43123 Tobacco Trading Co. $101,896 (address not shown) $28,366 plaintiff

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case #11 CV 004959 07/26/11 Fran C. Rainier v. The Pool Man Inc./John C. Gueli 5471 Sweet Gale Court Canal Winchester 43110 $59,320 plaintiff case #11 CV 002317 07/26/11 Sheehan Brothers Vending Inc. v. Jacqueline N. Jordan/Higher Standardz LLC (foreign-Clark County) (address not shown) $30,000 plaintiff case #M 10 CV 1415 07/26/11 Sharon A. Kellum v. Carl H. Woodford/First National Cash Refund Inc. 1620 E. Broad St., Suite 1708 Columbus 43203 $87,800 plaintiff case #10 CV 009987 07/26/11 John A. Becker Co. v. Electric Unlimited/Joseph M. Kitchen (address not shown) $10,856 plaintiff case #10 CV 006376 07/28/11 Hann Financial Service Corp. v. Mayle Caughey Towing & Transporting LLC/ Juanita Renne Caughey/Chris Caughey 2583 Deming Ave. Columbus 43202 $50,339 plaintiff case #11 CV 005064 07/28/11 Ohio Department of Commerce v. High Standard LLC/ Universal Mechanical LLC 35460 Clay Hill Road Logan 43138 $65,652 plaintiff

80 20 Inc. v. Arrow Solutions case #10 CV 013711 07/29/11 LLC case #11 CV 009484 Netjets Aviation Inc./Netjet Sales Inc. v. L.N. Financial LLC 08/01/11 4475 River Green Parkway, Columbus Income Tax Division Suite 100 v. Abbott Laboratories/Miles Duluth, Ga. 30096 D. White $327,994 case #11 CV 009491 plaintiff 08/01/11 case #11 CV 005597 Compmanagement Inc. v. 07/29/11 Marsam Metalfab Inc. case #11 CV 009492 LAWSUITS 08/01/11 Columbus Income Tax Division DELAWARE COUNTY v. Creative Kidz Enrichment Center Inc. R.F.C. C.D.O. 2007 One Ltd. fka case #11 CV 009493 CBRE Realty Finance C.D.O. 08/01/11 2007-1 Ltd. v. Polaris Office Investment LLC/8401 Data Columbus Equipment Co. Point Office Investment LP/ v. Ohio Heavy Equipment Nashville Polaris Investment Leasing LLC LLC commercial docket case #11 CVH 07 0891 case #11 CV 009516 07/26/11 08/02/11 Glimcher Properties LP v. Columbus Equipment Co. v. Media Solutions Inc./Mindy D. J.A. Dempsey & Sons ExcavatHedges/Don D. Hedges et al. ing Co. Inc. case #11 CVH 07 0894 commercial docket 07/26/11 case #11 CV 009518 08/02/11 FRANKLIN COUNTY SWAC LLC v. Jeffrey Loft 1 LLC/ Grange Mutual Casualty Co. v. Waterford LP et al. Authentic Tile & Marble Co. commercial docket personal injury case #11 CV 009571 case #11 CV 009437 08/02/11 08/01/11 Michael Finer Meats Inc. v. Wells Fargo Bank NA v. Limited Stackman LLC Investment Group/Ashraf A. case #11 CV 009574 Ettayam et al. 08/02/11 foreclosure Capital For Merchants LLC v. case #11 CV 009457 Lions Head Ventures LLC 08/01/11 case #11 CV 009586 Interstate Gas Supply Inc. v. 08/02/11 Bethel New Life Inc. First Communications v. Precommercial docket mier First Home Healthcare case #11 CV 009474 Agency 08/01/11 case #11 CV 009652 Way Way Inc./Jeff Foster v. 08/03/11 Shannons Pub Inc./GeorgesFirst Communications v. Los ville Inc. et al. Jalapenos Mexican Grill & case #11 CV 009476 Cantina LLC 08/01/11

case #11 CV 009653 08/03/11 Addivision LLC v. OVC LLC commercial docket case #11 CV 009663 08/03/11 Manheim Remarketing Inc. v. 2 Your Door Auto Sales LLC case #11 CV 009668 08/03/11 State Tire & Service LLC v. Performance Site Co. case #11 CV 009696 08/04/11 Erie Insurance Exchange v. Ohio Store Fixtures Inc. personal injury case #11 CV 009704 08/04/11 Attorney General Michael Dewine v. Home Improvement Terrace King LLC case #11 CV 009717 08/04/11 GM Plumbing & Heating Inc. v. Congregation Ahavas Sholom foreclosure case #11 CV 009741 08/05/11 Fairfield National Division Park National v. Tims Lancaster Inc. cognovit case case #11 CV 009773 08/05/11

FRANKLIN COUNTY

Collaborative Supply Chain Solution/C.E.V. Delivery Services 8203 Expansion Way Huber Heights 45424 $36,157 (State Insurance Fund Premium) case #11 JG 027192 07/26/11 S.A. Phillips Restoration Inc. 972 Harmon Ave. Columbus 43223 $20,155 (State Insurance Fund Premium) case #11 JG 027193 07/26/11 G&R Management Services Inc. 4555 Knightsbridge Blvd. Columbus 43214 $53,935 (State Insurance Fund Premium) case #11 JG 027196 07/26/11 Genesis Janitorial Services Inc. 19 Centre Point Saint Peters, Mo. 63304 $21,712 (Sales Tax) case #11 JG 027604 The Dublin Convention & 07/26/11 Visitors Bureau was accredited E-Play LLC for another four years by the 1177 Olentangy River Road Destination Marketing AccreditaColumbus 43212 tion Program, an international $29,102 accreditation program developed (Sales Tax) by the Destination Marketing case #11 JG 027610 07/26/11 Association International. Camaco LLC Hamilton Capital Manage40000 Grand River Ave., Suite ment Inc. was ranked 120 110 on a list of the nation’s top Novi, Mich. 48375 independent financial advisers FILED $148,189 by Financial Advisor magazine. (Use Tax) The rankings are based on total case #11 JG 027639 DELAWARE COUNTY assets under management. 07/26/11 Prestige Music Studios Inc. Advanced Automotive Systems 46 Village Pointe Drive Inc. Powell 43065 40000 Grand River Ave., Suite 110 $42,121 Novi, Mich. 48375 (941) $126,561 case #201100019545 (Use Tax) 07/21/11 case #11 JG 027640 McComas Builders LLC/Jason B. 07/26/11 Honors .........................35 Mortgages Residential ................ 38 McComas L.G. Philips Displays USA Inc. Bankruptcies Commercial ............... 36 Business licenses 1477 Rome Corners Road 1251 Avenue of the Americas Galena 43021 Chapter 7 .................. 35 Residential ................ 36 New vendors ............. 40 New York, N.Y. 10020 $20,659 Court cases Real estate transactions New corporations....... 40 $726,848 (940/941) (Use Tax) Judgments ................ 35 Commercial ............... 36 Liquor licenses case #201100019549 case #11 JG 027641 Lawsuits .................... 35 Vacant land ............... 36 In process .................. 40 Gatherings and get-togethers of which you want to make note. 07/21/11 07/26/11 Federal tax liens Residential ................ 36 Transferring................ 40 Herzing Ohio Inc. MADISON COUNTY Filed .......................... 35 Building permits 525 N. Sixth St. accountantinformationmarket. Where: Grange Insurance State tax liens ............35 Commercial ............... 38 Milwaukee, Wis. 53203 com. Audubon Center, 505 W. Whittier Barbara C. Howard 4425 Route 56 S.E. $185,754 St., Columbus Sales Executive Club of Central A schedule of Topics 4 the Times London 43140 (Use Tax) When: 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Ohio – Wednesdays industry-specific online seminars $31,856 case #11 JG 027642 Information in For The Record is compiled by Business First and American City Business Leads. Program: Lunch and Leaders – Visit murrayassociates.com for by Plante & Moran can be (6672) 07/26/11 For amplifications or corrections, contact Katy Smith at 614-220-5468. Leveraging Building Information weekly programs. found at plantemoran.com/ case #201100003012 Genesis Janitorial Services Inc. Modeling perspectives/webinars. Ohio Referral Network – 07/18/11 Sources of Record information: For hours of Delaware County: 740-833-2000 19 Centre Point Cost: $10 members, $25 Tuesdays-WednesdaysGoldStar Referral Club – operation, contact the governmental office in the co.delaware.oh.us/auditor/index.html Saint Peters, Mo. 63304 Keith D. Howard nonmembers includes lunch Thursdays Mondays-Fridays respective county. Web site users may need to co.delaware.oh.us/clerk/index.html $22,906 4425 Route 56 S.E. Contact: usgbc-coh.org Visit meetup.com/Ohio-ReferralFor area meetings, go to register, pay a fee or both to view some records co.delaware.oh.us/recorder/index.html (Sales Tax) London 43140 Network/ electronically. Not all records are available in goldstarreferralclubs.com case #11 JG 027646 $31,690 Fairfield County: 740-687-7190 electronic form and not all offices are displayed. 07/26/11 Dames Bond Central Ohio – (6672) realestate.co.fairfield.oh.us Forty Plus of Central Ohio – First Monday of the month case #201100003013 fairfieldcountyclerk.com/ Mondays Terrence O’Keefe For area networking events, visit Mid-American Jewelers As07/18/11 landaccess.com Visit fortyplusoh.org for details. 1301 Inglis Ave. Bankruptcies: U.S. Bankruptcy Court Southern damesbond.com for details. sociation Columbus 43212 Trombley Construction Franklin County: 614-462-3322 AmSpirit Business Connections District of Ohio, Columbus Division. What: Mid-America Jewelry $13,746 Services Inc. franklincountyohio.gov/clerk/ – Tuesdays-Fridays ecf.ohsb.uscourts.gov/ Show. Business to business trade. 1665 Cumberland St. (Commercial Activity Tax) franklincountyohio.gov/recorder/ For area chapter meetings, go to Building permits: City and county building and case #11 JG 027648 When: Aug. 19-21 London 43140 franklincountyohio.gov/auditor/ amspirit.com/chapters.php inspections departments 07/26/11 Where: Greater Columbus $52,716 Licking County: 740-670-5110 Business Network InternaConvention Center Federal tax liens: County recorder offices (941) AUGUST lcounty.com/auditor/ tional – Tuesdays-Fridays MADISON COUNTY Expected attendance: 5,000 case #201100003054 Judgments: County clerk of courts offices lcounty.com/clerkofcourts/ For area chapter meetings, (not open to the public) 07/20/11 Miller Cabinet Co. LLC lcounty.com/rec/ go to bni-ohio.com/cgi-bin/ 25 THURSDAY Lawsuits: County clerk of courts offices Website: midamericajewel6217 Converse Huff Road chapterlist.cgi Madison County: 740-852-2972 Liquor licenses: State of Ohio Department of American Marketing Association ers.com Plain City 43064 madisonoh.ddti.net/auditor/ Scioto Ridge – TuesdaysCommerce Division of Liquor Control Where: Insource, 4700 North$22,789 Dames Bond co.madison.oh.us Wednesdays liquorcontrol.ohio.gov/ west Parkway, Hilliard (Withholding Tax) What: Dame On! Live a Life You landaccess.com/ For area chapter meeting details, When: 7:30-9 a.m. Book/Page 26/612 Love, Personally and ProfessionFOR CASE STATUS INCLUDING Mechanics’ liens: County recorder offices go to srjng.com. Pickaway County: 740-474-6093 Program: Columbus Zoo Goes 07/27/11 ally, a daylong conference with WHETHER A LIEN HAS BEEN Mortgages: County recorder offices pickaway.org/ Mobile, Gregg Oosterbaan, direc- 18 local presenters, panels and Transition Networking Group RELEASED, CONTACT THE P&W Millworks Inc. landaccess.com tor of IT at the zoo New corporations: Ohio Secretary of State – Second and last Tuesday, go to interactive presentations. Early COUNTY’S COMMON PLEAS 8005 Lafayette Plain City Road Cost: $5 for members and trannetgroup.org. sos.state.oh.us/ Union County: 937-645-3012 Bird registration ends Aug. 13. COURT. INFORMATION AVAILPlain City 43064 students, $15 for nonmembers co.union.oh.us/Auditor/auditor.html When: Oct. 13 ABLE ONLINE FOR FRANKLIN The Accountant InformaNew vendors: County auditor offices $12,325 Contact: columbusama.org co.union.oh.us/Clerk_of_Courts/clerk_of_courts. tion Market – TuesdaysWhere: Makoy Center, Hilliard COUNTY AT HTTP://FCDCFCJS. (Sales Tax) Real Estate Transactions: County recorder offices html Expected attendance: 300 CO.FRANKLIN.OH.US/CASEINU.S. Green Building Council – Wednesdays Book/Page 27/19 co.union.oh.us/Recorder/recorder.html State tax liens: County clerk of courts offices FORMATIONONLINE/. For area chapter meetings, go to Central Ohio chapter Website: damesbond.com 08/03/11 Barbara Oliver Tootle of Worthington received Pi Beta Phi’s fraternity’s Member of Distinction Award. The award honors members who have “distinguished themselves and have achieved success and recognition within their profession,” according to a news release. Tootle is president of Left Field Consulting, which provides organizational development, communication and speech writing services. She previously held positions at Ohio State University including as an administrator, adviser, teacher, programmer and editor. She spent 11 years as the university’s coordinator for Greek affairs and is a member of the National Speakers Association and past national President of the Association of Fraternity Advisors. In 2000, Ohio State established the Barbie Tootle Buckeye Spirit Award.

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MORTGAGES COMMERCIAL DELAWARE COUNTY

505 S. High St. Columbus 43215 Lot 9 The Brewery District $710,000

RESIDENTIAL

First Merchants Bank to Carol and Theodore K. Manley property at 4021 Fairfax Drive Columbus 43220 Lot 2 Hillcrest Addition $712,500 First Place Bank to Charles J. and Nancy Lockwood property at 230 Ashbourne Road Columbus 43209 Lot 42 Stanberry Place $1,000,000 First Place Bank to Edmund F. and Maryanne B. Funai property at 23 Wiveliscombe New Albany 43054 Lot 23 The New Albany Country Club $716,000 The Arlington Bank to Raghuram P. and Neena Reddy property at 7560 Bellaire Ave./5227 Reserve Drive Dublin Lot 12 Dublin Estates/Lot 29 The Reserve $750,000

Columbus First Bank to InvestDELAWARE COUNTY ments Links LLC 5112 Harlem Road Insight Bank to Peter E. and Galena 43021 Susan D. Geier property at property at 9158 S. Old State Road 6421 Cook Road Lewis Center 43035 Powell 43065 1.00 Acres/Portion 1.145 Acres 6.53 Acres (metes & bounds) Portion Farm Lot 2 Sec. 03 03 18 Parcel ID 600 311 02 001 000 Parcel ID 318 341 02 010 000 $1,100,000 $1,720,000 JPMorgan Chase Bank NA Perpetual Federal Savings Bank to Douglas H. and Erika M. to Primas Properties Ltd. Gimple property at property at 901/903/905/907/909/911/913/ 8668 Creighton Drive 915/917/919/921/923/925/927/ Powell 43065 929/931 Bayridge Drive Lot 4657 Wedgewood Park Lewis Center 43035 $508,000 Units 901/903/905/907/909/9 U.S. Bank NA N.D. to Rita S. 11/913/915/917/919/921/92 Fortin Trustee 3/925/927/929/931 Lake Club property at Condominium 7155 Temperance Point St. $708,000 Westerville 43082 Lot 1477 Highland Lakes FRANKLIN COUNTY $515,000 Perpetual Federal Savings MADISON COUNTY Union Savings Bank to James A. Bank to 33 E. 17th Co. Ltd. Farm Credit Services of Midand Julie K. Homon Trustees property at America FLCA to Michael property at 33 E. 17th Ave. K. and Pamela J. Boerger 8633 Gavinton Court Columbus 43201 Trustees Dublin 43017 Lots 172-173 Indianola Forest (no address shown) Lot 244 Muirfield Village $707,000 59.721 Acres/62.133 Acres $601,000 The Huntington National Bank (metes & bounds) et al. to Scioto Valley Co. LLC $1,140,000 FRANKLIN COUNTY property at 4577 Lyman Drive Fifth Third Mortgage Co. to Hilliard 43026 Thomas W. and Laurel A. 4.209 Acres (metes & bounds) Zulliger Parcel ID 050 007700 property at $645,000 3029 Scioto Estates Court Columbus 43221 TriState Capital to Columbus THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION Lot 14 The Estates at Scioto Run Properties LLC IS AVAILABLE ON DISK OR VIA property at E-MAIL. CALL 877-593-4157 $680,000

REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS

COMMERCIAL DELAWARE COUNTY Altair Professional Village LLC to Cardinal Westerville LLC 560 Cleveland Ave. Westerville 43082 Parcel ID 317-333-01-006-002 $2,027,352 Donald R. Kenney to Equus Now Ltd. 8956 Cotter St. Lewis Center 43035 Parcel ID 318-313-04-014-558 $647,073

Donald R. Kenney Trustee to Emerald Lakes BJ Clubhouse LLC 4600 Emerald Lakes Blvd. Powell 43065 Parcel ID 319-344-05-025-000 $224,000 Lewis Center Investments LLC to Franklin Foundation Inc. Rail Timber Way Lewis Center 43035 Parcel ID 318-220-01-058-032 $200,000

columbusbusinessfirst.com | BUSINESS FIRST Deryck and Joyce Smith to Juman Inc. 1910-1916 Lockbourne Road Columbus 43207 Parcel ID 010-112368 0.575 Acres (metes and bounds) $250,000 Massenelli Brothers Inc. to Akshita Properties LLC 3556 Grove City Road Grove City 43123 Lots 101/103/102 AG Grants Beulah $225,000

FRANKLIN COUNTY

Olde Hilliard Real Estate Investment Co. LLC to SOI Truberry Group Inc. to BB Properties No. 7 LLC Residential Enterprises LLC 4227/4235 Avery Road 6582 Raynor Court Hilliard 43026 Dublin 43017 Lot Res A Avery Road Parcel ID 600-310-08-068-000 $1,400,000 $320,000 Sage 505 Inc. to Columbus Triangle Properties Inc. to Properties LLC Regent Homes LLC 505 S. High St. 4827 Creek View Court Columbus 43215 Powell 43065 Lot 9 Brewery District Parcel ID 319-220-20-033-000 $900,000 $274,500 Mazel Tov Properties LLC to Tomika N. Alexander to IntegMyflori LLC rity Real Estate Holdings 1870 Dunbar Drive 2517 Roe Drive Columbus 43201 Lewis Center 43035 Lot 6/8 John R. Dunbars Parcel ID 318-133-15-015-000 $435,000 $244,100 Steven B. Lewis to Frederick Polaris Assembly of God to F. Campbell Bishop of the Saint Andrews Anglican Roman Catholic Diocese of Church Columbus 7481 Old State Road 27 E. Dominion Blvd. Lewis Center 43035 Columbus 43214 Parcel ID 318-422-01-006-000 Lot Res C Rosemary East $225,000 $265,000 Donald Kenney to Vistas at Kerr & Abreu Properties LLC to Wedgewood BJ Clubhouse LLC S&G Family Investments LLC 10900 Southwind Drive 1650 Wyandotte Road Powell 43065 Columbus 43212 Parcel ID 319-344-05-014-000 Lots 298-300 Ricketts and Millers $260,000 $224,000

VACANT LAND DELAWARE COUNTY Eden Pike Farms II LLC to Eden Pike Farms I LLC Route 521 Delaware 43015 Parcel ID 518-200-03-042-000 $313,845 Joseph H. and Wendi K. Garrett to San Marino LLC Section Line Road Delaware 43015 Parcel ID 520-410-01-062-003 $230,000 UNION COUNTY Charles L. Hagy Trustee to Cronkleton Land LLC (no address shown) 27.90 Acres/6.5 Acres/362.581 Acres/Portion 188.130 Acres (metes & bounds) Parcel ID 35 0001021 000/35 0001023 000/35 0013004 000 $2,877,000

RESIDENTIAL DELAWARE COUNTY Daniel L. and Nancy A. Wollenberg to James A. and Kathleen C. Rutherford

1908 Woodlands Place Powell 43065 Parcel ID 319-444-06-007-000 $1,365,000 Matthew J. Romeo to Richard S. Everhart 6095 Springburn Drive Dublin 43017 Parcel ID 600-343-07-015-000 $915,000 Bob Webb Tartan Fields LLC to Stephen M. and Abbigail L. Mason 6544 Brodie Blvd. Dublin 43017 Parcel ID 600-310-06-026-000 $653,660 Sirva Relocation Properties LLC to Yujin and Angela Kim 2370 Dauer Court Powell 43065 Parcel ID 319-131-03-009-000 $646,500 Michael L. and Kimberly A. Bedzyk to William L. Jr. and Jill Phillis 8810 Sweetwater Court Powell 43065 Parcel ID 318-322-05-011-000 $590,000 M/I Homes of Central Ohio LLC to Amit B. and Hema Patel 5956 Braymoore Drive Galena 43021 Parcel ID 317-230-24-022-000 $574,680 Bob Webb Tartan Fields LLC to Richard V. and Christina V. Hall 6742 Raynor Court Dublin 43017 Parcel ID 600-310-08-076-000 $568,000 Dominion Homes Inc. to Anthony P. and Tanya Parisi 1123 Elderberry Loop Delaware 43015 Parcel ID 319-110-05-016-000 $535,579

Pyramid Custom Builders LLC to Victoria M. and Douglas A. Etgen 4447 N. Hampton Drive Dublin 43016 Parcel ID 319-344-08-018-000 $516,250 Fischer Single Family Homes II LLC to Brian and Jennifer Price 4282 Hickory Rock Drive Powell 43065 Parcel ID 319-240-18-010-000 $499,599 William A. and Patricia S. Burton to Gregory F. and Sandra J. Tillett 2755 Sweet Clover Lane Galena 43021 Parcel ID 317-110-05-007-000 $485,000 M/I Homes of Central Ohio LLC to Ronald J. and Raina L. Carroll 5266 Cornice Court Galena 43021 Parcel ID 317-230-40-057-000 $423,323 Fischer Single Family Homes II LLC to Douglas and Lindsay Werner 1146 Elderberry Loop Delaware 43015 Parcel ID 319-110-04-019-000 $420,797 Lawrence T. and Phyllis F. Nentwich to Patrick J. and Lisa A. Finneran 288 Glenworth Court Powell 43065 Parcel ID 319-431-04-014-000 $409,900 Barry A. Piar to Karen Smith Trustee 3721 Nicoya Court Lewis Center 43035 Parcel ID 318-413-04-096-000 $400,000 The Huntington National Bank to Mark J. Stropki 2549 Dauer Court Powell 43065

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BUSINESS FIRST | columbusbusinessfirst.com Parcel ID 319-132-02-005-000 $398,000 NVR Inc. to Phillip L. and Trisha M. Lennemann 1354 Lockwood Court Galena 43021 Parcel ID 418-140-06-030-000 $388,505 Kirk P. and Suzanne M. Lowery to David J. and Lyndsey M. Manzo 7300 Wallpepper Court Westerville 43082 Parcel ID 317-311-05-054-000 $388,000 Timothy T. and Vy T. Li to Scott and Jennifer Young 5842 Sherman Lakes Way Galena 43021 Parcel ID 418-140-06-016-000 $385,000 The Lakes at Golf Village LLC to Gary L. and Nancy J. Collier 8284 Dolman Drive Powell 43065 Parcel ID 319-240-01-066-622 $378,000 Kevin B. Tompkins to Timothy E. Rickard and Terry L. Niblack 8574 Coldwater Drive Powell 43065 Parcel ID 319-311-07-010-000 $376,250 David A. Brugger to James E. and Nicole R. Eads 3014 Route 257 Ostrander 43061 Parcel ID 500-230-01-023-007 $374,000 Craig A. and Teresita Gaitan to Michael K. and Elizabeth M. Gabel 5643 Springburn Drive Dublin 43017 Parcel ID 600-344-05-105-000 $372,000 Mark G. and Elizabeth K. Metcalf to Gustavo Acosta and Ana Munoz 5980 Gainey Court Westerville 43082 Parcel ID 317-230-13-021-000 $370,000 David A. Poirier to Kristen L. and Marshall J. Usher 3235 Stony Creek Court Lewis Center 43035 Parcel ID 318-130-01-006-000 $365,000 Rockford Homes Inc. to Scott W. and Tina R. Hanks 3249 Winding Woods Drive Powell 43065 Parcel ID 319-240-14-035-000 $363,790 Rockford Homes Inc. to Kelly P. and Brian Macaulay 3299 Winding Woods Drive Powell 43065 Parcel ID 319-240-14-041-000 $358,880 Douglas J. and Rebecca L. Schmale to Wade W. and Teresa D. Wilde 5412 Annandale Court Westerville 43082 Parcel ID 317-230-10-001-000 $353,900 In Ho Song and Hae Ran Suh to Donald Andrew Nelson 7682 Indian Springs Drive Powell 43065 Parcel ID 319-240-02-026-000 $340,000 Homewood Corp. to Nathaniel E. and Brandy N. Worsham 6268 Streamside Drive Galena 43021 Parcel ID 417-330-04-009-000 $335,225 Christine F. Mihalich to Kevin and Kristin O’Keeffe 8874 Westward Way Powell 43065 Parcel ID 319-313-08-012-000 $333,000 Joseph A. and Marsha L. Filia to Brian M. and Angela M. Truka 5231 Port Haven Drive Galena 43021 Parcel ID 418-410-09-014-000 $330,000

Todd and Tiffani Livengood to Dwayne E. and Donita L. Carson 6461 Cheyenne Creek Drive Lewis Center 43035 Parcel ID 318-240-04-071-000 $327,500 Kimberly L. Hausfeld to Matthew T. and Ashley E. Alexander 5328 Aryshire Drive Dublin 43017 Parcel ID 600-432-28-005-000 $327,000 Rachel L. and Richard A. Kelley to J. Lynn Greenstein 619 Deer Trail Westerville 43082 Parcel ID 317-344-19-012-000 $322,500 NVR Inc. to Lloyd P. and Barbara D. Cicetti 5641 Aster Way Galena 43021 Parcel ID 418-140-04-003-000 $321,481 Paul and Debby M. McGarvey to Steven A. and Karen A. Scott 3645 Africa Road Galena 43021 Parcel ID 418-440-01-065-000 $315,000 Frank J. Ziol Trustee to Cleon G. Jr. and Cynihia A. Wellington 425 Havendale Drive Westerville 43082 Parcel ID 317-433-04-032-000 $312,500 Donald D. Deafenbaugh Jr. to Woodrow N. Waldrop 2251 Tucker Trail Lewis Center 43035 Parcel ID 318-423-12-012-000 $310,000 Prudential Relocation Inc. to Ismail Nabeel and Nishat Hydari 5862 Rocky Shore Drive Lewis Center 43035 Parcel ID 318-120-06-038-000 $304,350 Fischer Single Family Homes II LLC to Robert Jr. and Meredith Lee Sweeney 863 Ballater Drive Delaware 43015 Parcel ID 418-320-07-077-000 $298,777 NVR Inc. to Eric J. and Mandy M. Pichiotino 5806 Sherman Lakes Way Galena 43021 Parcel ID 418-140-06-031-000 $298,225 Chaman L. and Neelam Gupta to Seth W. and Shancie L. Jenkins 3162 Ardmore Court Powell 43065 Parcel ID 319-434-02-008-005 $294,000 Michael E. and Tamara J. Wallace to Matthew and Catherine Pannebaker 269 Franklin St. Delaware 43015 Parcel ID 519-432-02-023-000 $287,700 R. Kevin Darling to Luke L. Molnar and Caroline Millman 2240 3 B’s and K Road Sunbury 43074 Parcel ID 517-300-01-090-000 $285,000 William J. Leidecker to Christopher A. and Diana M. Hinton 580 Olde Mill Drive Westerville 43082 Parcel ID 317-344-03-008-000 $285,000 Romanelli and Hughes Building Co. to David A. and Wilma J. Hiss 3669 Foresta Grand Drive Powell 43065 Parcel ID 319-314-01-021-441 $280,000 Fischer Single Family Homes II LLC to Douglas and Suzanne Sweeney 837 Ballater Drive Delaware 43015 Parcel ID 418-320-07-073-000 $279,652

D. Quentin and Nancy L. Sayer to Andrew Robert and Lisa A. Desjardins 7143 Greenery Court Westerville 43082 Parcel ID 317-311-10-014-000 $276,000 Donley Custom Homes LLC to John A. Lancione 947 Riverbend Ave. Powell 43065 Parcel ID 319-414-03-002-000 $275,000 Dominion Homes Inc. to Ryan T. and Sheri A. Miracle 1020 Balmoral Drive Delaware 43015 Parcel ID 418-320-15-002-000 $274,412 Dominion Homes Inc. to Robert C. and Kelly R. Salomone 2102 Marigold St. Lewis Center 43035 Parcel ID 318-240-22-032-000 $268,767 Nora A. Shaw to Jeffrey H. and Noelia Kleeberg 2846 Barharbor Court Lewis Center 43035 Parcel ID 318-132-05-006-000 $267,000 Patrick A. and Judith A. Spicer to Benjamin and Deanna L. Robeano 5746 Foxglove Place Westerville 43082 Parcel ID 317-311-08-012-000 $265,000 James R. Ramsey Jr. to B. Carl II and Aimee Harruff 2370 Blayney Road Sunbury 43074 Parcel ID 417-110-01-052-000 $264,000 Fannie Mae to Jerry S. and Linan Sun 1090 Blue Heron Drive Westerville 43082 Parcel ID 317-434-05-020-000 $264,000 Fannie Mae to Craig A. and Ashley R. Kalie 7255 Upper Cambridge Way Westerville 43082 Parcel ID 317-311-07-020-000 $263,350 Lyrin E. Murphy to Deborah A. Crowley Trustee 7535 Riverside Drive Powell 43065 Parcel ID 320-140-01-009-000 $260,000 Rockford Homes Inc. to Shawne A. Diebied and Gloria B. Reid 2771 Abbey Knoll Drive Lewis Center 43035 Parcel ID 318-133-06-054-000 $259,985 Joseph Jr. and Cynthia M. Glinski to Dwayne A. and Amy C. Adams 1190 Wedgewood Terrace Westerville 43082 Parcel ID 317-434-06-071-000 $257,450 Romanelli and Hughes Building Co. to Rocco and Therese M. Faoro 3695 Foresta Grand Drive Powell 43065 Parcel ID 319-314-01-021-444 $251,576 Westport Homes Inc. to Cynthia L. Storin 266 Long Trail Ostrander 43061 Parcel ID 400-100-07-015-000 $250,676 John V. Johnson II to Donald L. and Robin L. Sanders 9333 Route 37 Sunbury 43074 Parcel ID 417-240-01-003-000 $250,100 Philip and Amanda H. Cratty to Brett L. Crawford 7170 Cook Road Powell 43065 Parcel ID 600-310-01-013-000 $250,000 Sebrena R. Rogers to Theodore A. II and Larissa R. Saunder 527 Round Pearl Court Delaware 43015 Parcel ID 419-410-08-028-000 $245,000

Robert D. and Connie A. Williams to Jamie and Anthony P. Martini 3222 Devonshire Drive Delaware 43015 Parcel ID 418-310-04-002-000 $242,627 Lindsay E. Hart to Randall C. Thomas 2811 Minuteman Court Powell 43065 Parcel ID 319-434-03-089-000 $242,000 Rockford Homes Inc. to Mary Rayen and Matthew G. Cellura 871 Oakley Drive Delaware 43015 Parcel ID 419-410-30-006-000 $241,010 Michele D. Powell to Gino W. and Stace Torio 7670 Pinehill Road Lewis Center 43035 Parcel ID 318-311-15-027-000 $241,000 Cacy E. Rossi to Elizabeth A. Williams and Megan F. Winnenberg 6617 Winesap Place Westerville 43082 Parcel ID 317-313-06-060-000 $240,000 William J. and Nancy A. Billinghurst to Harry L. and Dolores C. Kirsch 220 Alder Court Delaware 43015 Parcel ID 419-130-10-032-000 $234,000 Robert A. and Dianne L. Lanier to Tina P. Franks 767 Mill Wind Court Westerville 43082 Parcel ID 317-344-17-020-000 $230,500 Brian M. Hubler to Jeffrey M. Santee 214 Crystal Petal Drive Delaware 43015 Parcel ID 419-410-07-019-000 $230,000 Brent and Diane Simms to Randy E. and Elizabeth C. Marshal 5695 Cloverdale Drive Galena 43021 Parcel ID 418-410-04-029-000 $225,000 Richard E. Spence and Decaro L. Shauna to Gabriel L. Ramsey and Elizabeth A. Tope 16140 Hartford Road Sunbury 43074 Parcel ID 416-140-02-024-000 $223,000 HSBC Bank USA NA Trustee to Carl D. and Amanda K. Smerdel 5757 Chiddingstone Lane Westerville 43082 Parcel ID 317-311-08-006-000 $219,900 Federal National Mortgage Association to Jeffrey P. and Christine M. Gooderham 627 Deer Trail Westerville 43082 Parcel ID 317-344-19-013-000 $215,000 NVR Inc. to Kerry and Devon Kaster 242 Harmony Drive Delaware 43015 Parcel ID 519-330-28-004-000 $214,605 David and Roberta Bain to Brittaney M. and Timothy J. Weyand 6895 Sunningdale Drive Westerville 43082 Parcel ID 317-313-10-026-000 $212,500 Scott Walker Ltd. to Dirk K. and Maureen P. Kaiser 545 Fields Meadow Drive Sunbury 43074 Parcel ID 417-134-08-021-000 $206,900 Richard A. and Jane M. Strohm to Sue Zust 6460 Upper Lake Circle Westerville 43082 Parcel ID 317-313-05-001-567 $198,000

Federal National Mortgage Association to Melissa Berry 397 Abbotsbury Drive Westerville 43082 Parcel ID 318-443-03-015-000 $196,000 Carly L. Nutter to Mary C. Bingham 4424 Crimson Maple Lane Westerville 43082 Parcel ID 318-414-04-006-524 $192,500 William C. Steinhoff to Curt M. and Rebecca M. Scott 1671 Galena Road Sunbury 43074 Parcel ID 517-300-01-125-000 $190,000 Kinsale Village LLC to David M. and Rebecca J. Fontanarosa 7024 Kinsale Lane Powell 43065 Parcel ID 319-210-01-045-523 $188,925 Kinsale Village LLC to William A. and Theresa M. Esposito 7026 Kinsale Lane Powell 43065 Parcel ID 319-210-01-045-524 $188,650 Randy E. and Elizabeth C. Marshal to Brett D. and Katherine E. McKinney 9008 Holquest Drive Lewis Center 43035 Parcel ID 318-341-08-006-000 $185,000 David B. and Stanya M. Doty to John A. and Sherehan E. Ross 436 Blaisdell Drive Delaware 43015 Parcel ID 519-332-02-038-000 $185,000 Kenneth W. and Terri L. Glover to Joseph W. and Kimberly A. Harbolt 1303 Curve Road Delaware 43015 Parcel ID 419-110-01-011-000 $184,000 Tuyen D. and Ellen L. Cao to Ryan M. Seman/Debra E. Seman/Jerome M. Seman 300 Holly Grove Road Lewis Center 43035 Parcel ID 318-343-04-031-000 $182,000 M/I Homes of Central Ohio LLC to Michael R. and Sara L. Graf 323 Seatrain Drive Delaware 43015 Parcel ID 519-320-33-020-000 $180,698 Steven J. and Mary Beth Collignon to Robert A. Lanier 582 Village Mill Drive Sunbury 43074 Parcel ID 417-420-07-024-000 $179,700 Jeffrey L. Armstrong and Jamie L. Fidazzo to Benjamin A. and Karlie R. Bozic 99 Highmeadows Circle Powell 43065 Parcel ID 318-323-08-017-000 $176,849 Carolyn Dean to Marcia H. Gilmer 7453 Red Maple Place Westerville 43082 Parcel ID 318-414-04-006-512 $175,900 The Village at Bale Kenyon LLC to Lindsey E. and Sharyl R. Smith 7284 Kendal Lane Lewis Center 43035 Parcel ID 318-413-01-001-518 $175,365 Sue A. Watson to Chadwick I. Smith 6143 Hilmar Drive Westerville 43082 Parcel ID 317-314-06-012-000 $175,000 Lorraine J. Gowens to Matthew L. and Stephanie N. Czarnecki 163 Roswell Place Powell 43065 Parcel ID 319-422-05-003-000 $175,000 Maple Crest Builders Ltd. to Jonathan A. and Katherine K. Burry 115 Braddington Court Delaware 43015

AUGUST 19, 2011 | Parcel ID 519-330-12-003-000 $170,180 MCAL LLC to Adam E. and Autumn M. Story 108 Helen Court Delaware 43015 Parcel ID 519-330-21-002-000 $170,000 Kevin A. Haney to Yuliyan V. Filipov 316 Linwood St. Delaware 43015 Parcel ID 519-330-09-047-000 $170,000 The Village at Bale Kenyon LLC to Samuel L. and Susan R. Furbee 7282 Kirklington St. Lewis Center 43035 Parcel ID 318-413-01-001-517 $169,495 Kathryn May Martin to Timothy J. Kemme 4081 Shoemaker Road Ashley 43003 Parcel ID 618-300-01-013-000 $169,000 The Estates at Polaris Village LLC to Christopher J. Bracale 363 Westgreen Lane Westerville 43082 Parcel ID 317-332-02-017-584 $169,000 Teresa M. Underwood to Devin Smith and Kristen A. Howard 66 Fountain Ave. Delaware 43015 Parcel ID 519-423-11-009-000 $168,000 Louise C. Emerick to Donald H. and Donna S. Obrian 8476 Payson Drive Lewis Center 43035 Parcel ID 318-314-09-010-000 $165,000 The Village at Bale Kenyon LLC to Kathleen Herrmann 7288 Kendal Lane Lewis Center 43035 Parcel ID 318-413-01-001-520 $164,000 Dominion Homes Inc. to Tiffany D. Davis 1685 Flat Rock Run Columbus 43240 Parcel ID 318-431-06-003-000 $162,898 S. Baumann Juliana to Timothy L. and Donna L. Sullivan 284 Black Walnut Drive Westerville 43082 Parcel ID 317-343-02-004-508 $156,000 Federal National Mortgage Association to Linda Loesch 784 Barberry Spur Ave. Delaware 43015 Parcel ID 519-320-12-005-000 $152,000 Northpark Place LLC to Jay S. Ortlip Trustee 1539 Gage St. Columbus 43240 Parcel ID 318-431-01-011-670 $150,000

Henry and Harriet Fayne to Edward and Cathleen M. Wolf 1980 Hillside Drive Columbus 43221 Lot 1 Upper Arlington $715,000 Andrew and Carrie L. Madison to Jonathan H. and Pamela R. Young 2476 Bexley Park Columbus 43209 Lots 158-159 Bexley $699,000 Daniel C. and Martina C. Ogbonna to William E. and Molly W. Carlin 3675 Farley Court New Albany 43054 Lot 20 New Albany Country Club $661,000 Duffy Homes Inc. to Robert E. Fitzgerald and Donna Vichinisky Fitzgerald 9260 Pamplin Way New Albany 43054 Lot 26 Tidewater at New Albany $570,000 Michael H. and Annette A. Hallarn to Paul A. and Mary E. Fry 1321 Carron Drive Columbus 43220 Lot 54 Stratford Place $550,000 Richard J. and Cristine Dennis aka Cristine R. Dennis to Brian and Maria Mauntel 1905 Berkshire Road Columbus 43221 Lot 18 City of Upper Arlington $550,000 Farber Holdings LLC to Ioannis Zissis 4339-4367 E. Main St. Columbus 43213 Lots 268-273 Bernards $525,000 Robert E. Fitzgerald and Donna Gayle Vichinsky to Elizabeth Manning Erath 5005 Brooksview Circle New Albany 43054 Lot 500 Hampsted Village $515,000 Ann F. and Mark P. Barwig to Michael A. Hochanadel and Jane Robin Ackley 4059 Prince George Lane New Albany 43054 Lot 16 New Albany Country Club $497,000 Michael A. Edwards to Joseph Jacob Trustee 1845 Upper Chelsea Road Upper Arlington 43212 Lot Res A Upper Arlington $475,000 Slone Graphics LLC to CER Real Estates Investments LLC 939-949 W. Third Ave. Columbus 43212 Lots 114-117 Northwest Blvd. $453,000 Darren E. and Kimberly K. Fogt to Jason W. and Daniele J. Thomas 6647 Baronscourt Loop FRANKLIN COUNTY Dublin 43016 Lot 366 Ballantrae Gregory S. Nelson Trustee to $450,000 Lisa L. Huang and Jack X. Lee 7192 Dublin Road Beck Place LLC to Bruce R. Dublin 43017 Stevenson and Kay E. Towers Parcel ID 273-001786 12.82 637 S. Grant Ave., No. 15 Acres (metes and bounds) Columbus 43026 $1,501,000 Unit 15 Beck Place Condominium $438,000 Sarah Ziegler-Kay fka Sarah Windels Ziegler and Daniel J. John A. and Kari S. Wiese to Kay to Charles J. and Nancy Shane L. and Rita M. Hart Lockwood 7286 Coventry Woods Drive 230 Ashbourne Road Dublin 43017 Columbus 43209 Lot 5 Coventry Woods Lot 42 Stanbery Place $428,000 $1,337,000 Gary T. and Patricia K. Davis/ Stuart and Marka A. Lyle to David J. and Susan K. DysingPaul F. and Jina Sue Schubert er to Stephen N. Bamattre/ 5867 Dunheath Loop Robert A. Bamattre/Cynthia Dublin 43016 L. Bamattre Lot 459 Ballantrae 1636-1642 Glenn Ave. Columbus 43212 $1,050,000 Lots 236-238 Ricketts and Millers R. Keith and Pamela S. Morris $424,000 to Edmund F. and Maryanne Fischer Single Family Homes Funai II LLC to Senthil Gopalakrish23 Wiveliscombe nan and Nidhi Gupta New Albany 43054 1148 Merston Drive Lot 23 New Albany Country Club Columbus 43235 $895,000

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Lot 86 Oldstone Crossing $411,000 Bexley Gateway Plaza Ltd. to Kendell F. Sherrer 500 S. Parkview, Unit 305 Columbus 43209 Unit 305 Alexander Condominium $405,000 Eugene H. Pierce Jr. and Elaine Pyrch Pierce to Aleix M. Martinez 1063 Perry St., Unit 25 Columbus 43201 Unit 25-1063 Homes at Harrison Park Condominium $393,000 Matthew B. and Darcy Selby to Todd L. and Stacy R. James 6915 Kindler Drive New Albany 43054 Lot 135 New Albany Link $390,000 Premier Properties Inc. to Williamd Van Huffel aka William Vanhuffel 4062 Bremo Recess New Albany 43054 Lot 93 New Albany Country Club $385,000 Wesley W. and Karen A. Mayer to Shira A. Thompson 7066 Shetland St. Columbus 43235 Lot 27 Stilson Highlands $385,000 Beth B. and J. Franklin Luchsinger to Gregory S. and Patricia J. Reed 50 S. Remington Road Bexley 43209 Lot 194 Ardmore $380,000 Sirva Relocation Properties LLC to Shakil A. Karim 8850 Grate Park Square New Albany 43054 Lot 372 New Albany Links $377,000 Fischer Single Family Homes II LLC to Dawn N. and Jonathan T. Carpenter 7177 Maple Leaf Circle S. Blacklick 43004 Lot 14 Woods at Havens Run $376,000 Julie Seel to Monica L. and Charles J. Mallue IV 6187 Memorial Drive Dublin 43017 Lot 1432 Muirfield Village $375,000 Johan Winoto and Gracia Agustania Budiono to Hari M. Sharma and Indu B. Sharma 5930 Winslow Court Dublin 43016 Lot 12 Glade at Ballantrae $370,000 Richmond Square LLC to John T. and Kay M. La Porte 7 Richmond Square New Albany 43054 Unit 7 Richmond Square Condominium $368,000 William F. and Joyce A. Slough to Orin L. and Jessica A. Hemminger 1891 N. Devon Road Upper Arlington 43212 Lots 2/10/11 Upper Arlington $362,000 Stephanie and Keith A. Cline Jr. to James E. and Katherine E. Tebbutt 6661 Lower Brook Way New Albany 43054 Lot 135 West Hampsted $355,000 Fischer Single Family Homes II LLC to Stephen Galen Will 5832 Trafalgar Lane Dublin 43016 Lot 601 Ballantrae $350,000 Aparna S. and Satish K. Kalyani to Se Ming Chu and Hsin Chin Hsueh 7756 Wryneck Drive Dublin 43017 Lot 25 Hawks Nest $349,000 Molly W. Carlin Trustee to Monica I. Ardura 5160 Abbotsbury Court New Albany 43054

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Lot 295 Hampstead Village $344,000 Christopher R. and Megan A.L. Potts to Daniel F. and Angela M. Ruiz 4140 Reedbury Lane Columbus 43220 Lot 45 Reedbury $341,000 Daniel P. and Irene G. Donhowe to Carrie L. and Edwin M. Keener IV 8118 Aston Way Dunlin 43016 Lot 58 Shannon Glen $320,000 Christopher W. and Cherry W. Lo to Silivian and Christol Jeyabalan 6968 New Albany Road E. New Albany 43054 Lot 102 New Albany Links $315,000 Paul A. and Mary E. Fry to Matthew D. and Suellen E. Sharp 2606 Brandon Road Columbus 43221 Lot 137 Brandon Heights $315,000 Robert A. Brewer to J. Jerome Brady and Carrie S. Brady 2574 Chartwell Road Upper Arlington 43220 Lot 32 Wellington Woods $299,000 Timothy M. and Kimberly A. Oliver to Brian A. Christensen 6097 Broadwell Corut Galloway 43119 Lot 145 Village at Thornapple $299,000 Charles E. and Nina L. Bell to Allyson A. Kirkbride 6088 Brigids Close Drive Dublin 43017 Lot 467 Dublinshire $297,000 Andrew A. and Caren E. Wildman to Steven S. and Melissa D. Pryor 979 S. Cassingham Road Bexley 43209 Lots 10-11 Livingston Heights $296,000 Gary M. Goldsmith to Brian J. and Melissa E. Baker 799 Tweed Court Worthington 43085 Lot 174 Olentangy Highlands $290,000 Roshani N. Kandawalla aka Roshani Kandawalla to Brian S. and Kristen D. Cobb 1043 Woodman Drive Worthington 43085 Lot 302 Olentangy Highlands $290,000 Jackson on High LLC to Young Hwan Kim 1145 N. High St., Unit 304 Columbus 43201 Unit 304 Jackson on High Condominium $289,000 Paragon Relocation Resources Inc. to Cristian I. Donoso Quirogat and Igrid Gurel Donoso 5755 Dalymount Drive Dublin 43016

Lot 67 Trinity Park $287,000 Al and Donette R. Uddin to Julie J. Bender 1699 Northwood Circle New Albany 43054 Lot 313 Park at Harrison Pond Villages at Rocky Fork $285,000 David L. and Robin S. Mead to Pamela L. Hampson Trustee 538 Woodlake Drive Westerville 43081 Lot Res V Lakeside Forest $285,000 Carol D. and David S. Corbett to Andrew and Caren Wildman 1857 Andover Road Upper Arlington 43212 Lot 17 Upper Arlington $280,000 Frederick T. and Gayle N. Reidenbach to Benjamin A. and Gina M. Gilchrist 6954 Candace Place Worthington 43085 Lot 40 Perry Highlands $280,000 Fischer Single Family Homes II LLC to Jay M. and Lisa M. Price 5088 Keefer Lane Grove City 43123 Lot 76 Margies Cove $277,000 NVR Inc. dba Ryan Homes to James and Brenda L. Basnik 5475 Snider Loop New Albany 43054 Lot 16 Enclave at New Albany $276,000 Clayton K. Lowe to Brian D. and Agnes N. Burris 68 Walhalla Road Columbus 43202 Lot 49 Walhalla Park Place $275,000 Timothy M. and Cathy L. Lucks to Christopher and Megan Potts 1488 Ardwick Road Columbus 43220 Lot 21 Reedbury $273,000 Kathleen A. and Dewey Maynard Jr. to Shane G. and Angela N. Harris 5077 Breckenhurst Drive Hilliard 43026 Lot 30 Carrington Place $269,000 David J. and Dawn L. Pollay to Walter T. Soga 496 n. Drexel Ave. Bexley 43209 Lots 53-54 Bexley Heights $266,000 Juliette Leukart and Douglas M. Ramsey to Stephen A. Winston 46 S. Roosevelt Ave. Bexley 43209 Lots 45-46 Robert Weilers $262,000 Judith A. Thomas Administrator of the Estate of Daniel J. Thomas aka Dan J. Thomas to Erin K. McCoy 7690 Windwood Drive Dublin 43017

Lot 285 Brandon $260,000 John T. and Jennifer C. Kemp to David C. and Laura A. Fullen 3318 Darbyshire Drive Hilliard 43026 Lot 42 Ridgewood Estates $257,000 Anna M. Wang to Janet L. Blank and Susan D. Blank 4093 Delancy Park Drive Dublin 43016 Unit 4093 Gramercy Place Condominium $255,000 Todd L. and Stacy James to Brian D. and Misty Reed 2713 Skelton Lane Blacklick 43004 Lot 20 Jefferson Estates $255,000 Scot E. and Maryellen Danforth to Robert L. and Katherine J. Watts 256 Melbourne Place Worthington 43085 Lot 208 Van De Boe Hager Co. $253,000 John C. and Caroline S. Ellingwood to Pamela L. Riley 3366 Kendelmarie Way Dublin 43017 Unit 3366 Village of Scioto Condominium $252,000 Patrick J. and Helen M. Timbers to Michael J. Farley 1158 Forest Glen Westerville 43081 Lot 58 Woodglen $251,000 Broad & High Development LLC to Michael Royse Wagner 8 E. Broad St., Suite 701 Columbus 43215 Unit 701 8 on the Square Condominium $250,000 David S. and Susan L. Stevens to Michael W. and Bethany L. Wayt 827 Aldengate Drive Galloway 43119 Lot 85 Village at Thornapple $249,000 Charles M. and Cathy Thomas to Jason M. and Melissa K. Wheeler 501 Garden Drive Worthington 43085 Lot 57 Worthington Southwest $248,000 Gerald H. and Janet M. Gedwill to Zachary R. and Sara E. McFarlen 3085 Landen Farm Road E. Hilliard 43026 Lot 1334 Lakewood $246,000 Charles Allen Messerschmitt and Mary Jacqueline Messerschmitt to Douglass T. and Stephanie L. Forbes 902 Babbington Court Westerville 43081 Lot 74 McDot Farms $246,000 Gary E. and Vickie A. Asher to Joseph P. and Kathleen Dicesare 7032 Fitzgerald Road

Dublin 43017 Lot 16 Hemingway Village $245,000 Edward F. and Mary Jane Bobay to John T. and Hallie A. Marshall fka Hallie A. Marshall 3129 Rock Fence Drive Columbus 43221 Lot 22 Scioto Trace $244,000 Telhio Credit Union to Brent L. Kilbarger 4790 Heycross Drive Grove City 43123 Lot 279 Hoover Crossing $240,000 Brenda L. Petty to Andrew D. and Elizabeth Moore 1943 Bedford Road Upper Arlington 43212 Lot 14 Upper Arlington $238,000 Maronda Homes Inc. of Ohio to Nathan D. and Connie P. Hoang 4410 Orangeberry Drive Grove City 43123 Lot 23 Autumn Grove $237,000 Jean D. Westin nka Jean D. and Douglas F. Chamberlain to Tracy L. and Rita G. Nichols 2424 Wyncourtney Court Powell 43065 Lot 214 Summit View Woods $232,000 Robert Scott Carter to Kari S. Black (no address shown) Lot 664 Hunters Ridge $230,000 Fischer Single Family Homes II LLC to Christy K. Vallance 3096 Adderbury Drive Grove City 43123 Lot 36 Claybrooke Crossing $229,000 Sean P. and Kathleen Z. Russell to Bryan A. and Sarah K. Fair 7653 Starmont Court Dublin 43016 Lot 842 Olde Sawmill $228,000 John C. Berry and Ann Levine Berry to Peter Caleb Robinson and Kimberly Langston Rogers Robinson 175 Westwood Road Columbus 43214 Lot 32 Webster Estates $225,000 Mark A. and Linda D. Richardson to Virginia A. and James A. Faulkner 3865 Stonesthrow Court W. Hilliard 43026 Lot 138 River Run $224,000 Dominion Homes Inc. to Robert E. and Paula McQuade 5370 Herring Run Way Dublin 43016 Lot 307 Haydens Crossings $218,000 Jeffrey R. and Kristen M. McKitrick to Kristina L. Wood 5919 Alturas Way Hilliard 43026 Lot 366 Westbrooke $217,000

Susan M. and E. Philip Kafoure to Jason M. and Jennifer K. Elliott 988 Brule Court Westerville 43081 Lot 257 Spring Grove $215,000 Peter L. and Xanath L. Van Frayen to Megan M. McGinnis and Michael D. Goodson 1017 S. Remington Road Bexley 43209 Lot 5 Beverly Park $212,000 Thomas P. and Meko J. Olman to Michael and Mary Elizabeth Hall 1175 Forest Rise Drive Westerville 43081 Lot 13 Chatham Ridge $210,000 Dennis G. Mertzanis to Gene C. Katter 3075 Midgard Road Columbus 43202 Lot 116 Walhalla Park Place $208,000 Walter R. and Grace V. Theil Trustees to Taylor A. and Jordan A. Winnestaffer 6675 Clark State Road Blacklick 43004 Parcel ID 170-000300 2.2 Acres (metes and bounds) $205,000 Yusu Wang to Brady K. Dalrymple and Lindsey C. West 3029 Splitrock Road Columbus 43221 Lot 76 Quarry Pointe $205,000 R. Brian and Gail M. Stone to Jeffrey R. McKitrick 5909 Pinto Pass Drive Hilliard 43026 Lot 355 Westbrooke $204,000 Brett and Lori Ludwig to Joshua F. and Kathryn K. Hornik 5808 Hunting Haven Drive Hilliard 43026 Lot 286 Westbrooke $203,000 Katie J. and Nathaniel R. Yahn to Amanda J. Pinney 274 Clinton Heights Ave. Columbus 43202 Lot 2 Parcel ID 010-028346 $201,000 Edward S. and Carol Amos to Karen Albers Larson 1381 LaRochelle Drive Columbus 43221 Unit 18-J Trouville Tremont Condominium $200,000 Todd M. and Lisa Allen to Khalid H. Sheta and Nehad S. Mohamed 6576 Delburn Court Dublin 43017 Lot 47 Riverside Glen $200,000 MADISON COUNTY Esther Manker to Lizabeth S. and James R. Elasser 8935 Smith Calhoun Road Plain City 43064

columbusbusinessfirst.com | BUSINESS FIRST Lot 1 Friendship Acres $350,000 Karen L. Kitchen to Andrienne L. and Brent A. McCracken 245 Old Xenia Road London 43140 Lot 1 Spegal Estates $280,000

BUILDING PERMITS COMMERCIAL

SA Weller Construction commercial alteration at 150 E. Gay St. (sixth floor) $100,000 DELAWARE COUNTY

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Arlington commercial alteration at 3 Pillar Homes LLC Edinburgh Cove LLC to Karen 8787 Owenfield Drive commercial addition at Morris Orange Township 4480 Kenny Road 906 Mitchell Drive $120,000 (69 dining room capacity/add 1,030 square feet London 43140 ADA restrooms/interior kitchen/ Unit 18 Edinburgh Cove dining room) Integrated $237,000 commercial alteration at $150,000 8270 Green Meadows Drive Michael R. Stuthard to Joshua S. Brackett Builders Inc. Orange Township Alcott and Amanda L. Swartz commercial building at (tenant finish) 399 E. Livingston Ave. 2005 Deer Run Lane (credit union/relocate data center) $122,000 London 43140 23,933 square feet $50,000 Lot 10 Deer Run $235,000 Bron Construction Group Ltd. RESIDENTIAL Paul and Kristen Hershberger to commercial alteration at 6150 E. Broad St. William F. II and Judy L. Hess CITY OF COLUMBUS Mt. Carmel Classrooms 1455 W. Choctaw Drive (office area) Dominion Homes Inc. London 43140 $100,000 single-family residence at Lot 476 Choctaw 5808 Ivy Branch Drive Constructive Innovations Inc. $163,000 Lot 406 Village at commercial building at Elouise May Lodwick to Seth Haydens Crossing 809 Marion Road T. Fry $151,588 (storage building) 371 Darbyview Drive $150,000 Fritz Harding West Jefferson 43162 single-family residence alteraCorna Kokosing ConstrucLot 7 J&L tion at tion Co. $153,450 755 Dennison Ave. commercial alteration at (add 6 car garage) 50 W. Town St. David and Colleen Wolford to $80,000 (remodel offices to conference Mark A. Crager rooms on floors 5-7 in office Kolbe Construction Services 2601 Seneca Drive building) Inc. London 43140 multifamily residence altera$80,000 Lot 1023 Choctaw tion at $153,080 Hanlin Rainaldi Construction 1800 Watermark Drive Corp. (replace heat pumps for 6 commercial alteration at UNION COUNTY units/52 light fixtures) 41 S. High St. $60,000 U.S. Bank NA Trustee to RichMorgan Stanley Smith Barney/ ard R. Chene and Kathleen Huntington Building (27th floor) Thompson Building Associates Askin Chene Inc. $400,000 single-family residence altera6805 MacNeil Drive Jackovic Construction Co. LLC tion at Dublin 43017 commercial addition at 2551 Sonata Drive Lot 110 Tartan Fields 1345 Polaris Parkway (repair fire damage) $701,000 (mercantile building) $65,000 $275,000 M/I Homes of Central Ohio LLC Todd Renger to Yun-Chun Yu and Yu-Yung Mathew Curtis single-family residence alteraHuang commercial alteration at tion at 9222 Golden Rose Way 1509 Hilliard Rome Road 567 Overbrook Drive Dublin 43017 (restaurant) (convert porch to habitable space) $90,000 Lot 165 Tartan Ridge $50,000 $363,000 Parkway Construction & AsVillage Communities Real sociates LP Torpakai Sherzai to Elizabeth Estate Inc. commercial alteration at multifamily residence at S. Gay 3631 Soldano Blvd. 5308-5326 Kepwick Drive 6890 Postlake Court Chuck E Cheese (16 unit apartment building) Dublin 43016 $272,348 $325,000 Lot 31 Post Preserve Renovators Inc. $325,000 Village Communities Real commercial alteration at Estate Inc. Dominion Homes Inc. to 41 S. High St. multifamily residence at Ronald Waterman (third floor/human resources 5309-5327 Porlock Place 726 Stallion Way space) (16 unit apartment building) Marysville 43040 $325,000 $92,000 Lot 5590 Woods at Mill Valley Restaurant Specialties Inc. $269,500 DELAWARE COUNTY commercial building at Jerry L. and Penny J. Robinson 2421 S. Hamilton Road 3 Pillar Homes to Howard H. and Sharon M. Taco Bell single-family residence at Eischen $380,000 5423 Grand Oak Blvd. 26115 Newton Perkins Road Grand Oak SA Weller Construction $280,000 West Mansfield 43358 commercial alteration at 4,828 square feet 5.990 Acres/3.00 Acres (metes 5677 Chantry Drive & bounds) Parcel ID 22 0002008 (change of use from storage to Ambassador Homes 200/22 0002008 300 single-family residence at educational/training facility) 2417 Roe Drive $150,000 $200,000

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M/I Homes single-family residence at 6726 Fall Brook Trail Olentangy $370,941 5,934 square feet M/I Homes single-family residence at 6731 Clear Creek Loop Scioto $330,105 5,870 square feet M/I Homes single-family residence at 6746 Fall Brook Trail Olentangy $373,546 5,779 square feet New England Homes single-family residence at 2892 Creek Road Trenton Township $530,000 7,349 square feet Quinn Custom single-family residence at 8130 Harriott Road Concord Township $1,700,000 11,030 square feet Regent Homes single-family residence at 7498 Kerfield Drive Cheshire $250,000 5,266 square feet Rockford Homes single-family residence at 768 Elderberry Loop Olentangy $440,000 6,232 square feet Rockford Homes single-family residence at 867 Elderberry Loop Olentangy $383,000 4,662 square feet Roger Graszl single-family residence construction at 1880 Abbotsford Green Drive Loch Lomond (swimming pool) $68,000 Romanelli & Hughes single-family residence at 4590 Hunters Bend Liberty Village $409,000 5,724 square feet Romanelli & Hughes single-family residence at 14380 Centerburg Road Porter Township $320,000 5,300 square feet Romanelli & Hughes single-family residence at 14490 Centerburg Road Porter Township $350,000 7,698 square feet Ryan Homes single-family residence at 2971 Abbey Knoll Drive Abbey Knoll $170,000 4,162 square feet Ryan Homes single-family residence at 5700 Aster Way Sherman Lakes $250,000 5,339 square feet Schottenstein single-family residence at 7994 Meadow Chase Drive Berkshire Estates $180,000 4,751 square feet Sierra Custom single-family residence at 1670 Adlington Drive Cheshire $242,000 5,008 square feet Swiss Construction single-family residence construction at 2058 County Road 605 N. Trenton Township (accessory building) $57,750 2,314 square feet

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Sleep Outfitters of Ohio LLC 5986 E. Main St. Columbus 43213 Tobacco for Less 2410 N. High St. Columbus 43202 Super Beauty Outlet Corp. FRANKLIN COUNTY 4632 E. Main St. Whitehall 43213 Dave Fox Remodeling single-family residence alteraOreck Clean Home Center, tion at No. 209 2278 Old Stone Road 7370 Sawmill Road Lot 21 Colts Neck Columbus 43235 (master bath remodel) Skynet Managed Technology $53,156 Services LLC Divine Co. General Contractors 1 E. Campus View Blvd., Suite single-family residence addi225 Columbus 43235 tion at 1416 Reynoldsburg New Albany MADISON COUNTY Road Jefferson Township Madco Vinyl Signs & Designs (addition/break room/mud room) 200 E. High St. $75,000 London 43140 Elite Home Remodeling Old Mill Market single-family residence addition/ 13961 Main St. alteration at South Solon 43153 3734 Caracas Drive Lot 48 H.C. Huber NEW $58,000 CORPORATIONS Monogram Homes single-family residence at DELAWARE COUNTY 1669 Lynnbrook Court Lot 9 Lynnbrook North American Wood Box Co. $337,539 3172 Brentwood Court Powell 43065 O.K.R. Builders single-family residence alteraBig Walnut Girls Softball Astion at sociation Inc. 3406 London Lancaster Road 16513 Hartford Road Madison Township Sunbury 43074 (storm damage/roof/siding replacement) FAIRFIELD COUNTY $180,000 East Central Beekeepers Association MADISON COUNTY 320 W. Jefferson St. Baltimore 43105 Jacob and Kimberly Beathard single-family residence at FRANKLIN COUNTY 6810 Hume Lever Road 4.69 Acres Fairfield Township Blockhead Studios Inc. $138,000 2435 Sutter Parkway Dublin 43016 Schumacher Homes single-family residence at New Beginning Realty Inc. 1723 E. Choctaw Drive 4177 Wyandotte Woods Blvd. Lot 216 Choctaw Dublin 43016 $94,000 Choice One Home Healthcare Inc. 5918 Heritage Lakes Drive Hilliard 43026 Xtreme Management Group Inc. 7116 Gablestone Lane THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION New Albany 43054 IS AVAILABLE ON DISK OR VIA CW Residents For Responsible E-MAIL. CALL 877-593-4157 Growth 18 Columbus St. NEW VENDORS Canal Winchester 43110 Somali American Friendship DELAWARE COUNTY Association 2333 Brookbank Drive SIGNmaster Grove City 43123 758 Radio Drive Lewis Center 43035 The Service People Inc. 356 E. 13th Ave., Apt. 2 Print Partner Ohio LLC Columbus 43201 10417 Lanbridge Place Powell 43065 Columbus Collegiate AcademyWest Inc. Banh Mi Vietnamese Kitchen 1469 E. Main St. 8641 Columbus Pike Columbus 43205 Lewis Center 43035 Livingston Cellular Inc. The Bogey Bar & Grill 1635 E. Livingston Ave. 6013 Glick Road Columbus 43205 Powell 43065 Cory Pampalone Inc. Turkey Hill Minit Markets, 790 Bank St. No. 707 Columbus 43206 2740 Stratford Road Mother Thru Mother Ministries Delaware 43015 5345 Great Oak Drive, No. N CVS Pharmacy, No. 3364 Whitehall 43213 111 W. Cherry St. Ethiopian American FoundaSunbury 43074 tion In North America Inc. Lhasa My Apsa Handicrafts & 33 S. James Road, Suite 203 Collectibles Columbus 43213 6727 Spring Run Drive The Columbus Rugby Football Westerville 43082 Club Oreck Clean Home Center, 65 E. State St., Suite 1000 No. 211 Columbus 43215 1374 Polaris Parkway, No. 211 UFO Action Committee Columbus 43240 191 W. Nationwide, Suite 300 Columbus 43215 FRANKLIN COUNTY The Collaborative Dance Ledo’s Lounge Project 2606-2608 N. High St. 560 E. Town St. Columbus 43202 Columbus 43215 Big & Tall Lumatrax Inc. 3395 E. Main St. 65 E. State St., Suite 1800 Columbus 43213 Columbus 43215

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columbusbusinessfirst.com | BUSINESS FIRST Equity Planning Partners Co. 1399 E. Cooke Road Columbus 43224 Rami Z Inc. 1776 Boysenberry Lane Columbus 43228 Tax Free Muzik Inc. 5111 Station Road, Apt. 4 Columbus 43228 Central Ohio Community Involvment Foundation Inc. 2267 Glenbrook Drive Columbus 43232 HC Way Inc. 171 E. Campus View Blvd. Columbus 43235 Kout Inc. 2012 W. 25th, No. 501 Cleveland 44113 Devoted Hearts Inc. 26 E. Madison Ave. Springfield 45504

IN PROCESS DELAWARE COUNTY M.J.S. Feed LLC 3866 N. State St. Route 3 Dunbury 43074; C1 FRANKLIN COUNTY James B. Wimbush dba D. No. 1 Happy Family Bar & Club 764 St. Clair Ave., 1st Floor & Patio Columbus 43201; D2; D5 Mount Vernon Drive Thru Inc. 1232-1234 Mount Vernon Ave. Columbus 43203; C1; C2 Ever Shine Inc. dba Ever Green Market 915 S. James Road Columbus 43227; C1; C2

Mozart’s Inc. dba Mozart’s Cafe 2885 N. High St. Basement UNION COUNTY 1st-2nd floor & Patio Boyd Promotional Services Inc. Columbus 43202; D5 505 Mill Wood Blvd. M.K. Restaurants LLC dba Marysville 43040 Market No. 65 65 E. State St. Columbus 43215; D5

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MANUFACTURER A1: Manufacturer of beer, ale, stout and other malt liquors A1A: Beer, and any liquor by the glass or container on A-1 or A-2 permit, premises until 2:30 a.m. MANUFACTURERS WAREHOUSE W: To operate a warehouse for the storage of beer or liquor and to sell such products from the warehouse to a B permit holder with consent to Import on file or to customers outside this state DISTRIBUTOR B1: Distributor of beer, ale, stout, other malt liquor RETAIL STORE CARRYOUT C1: Beer only in original sealed container for carry out only C2: Wine and certain mixed drinks in sealed containers for carry out C2X: Beer in original sealed containers for carry out RESTAURANT D1: Beer only for on premises consumption or in sealed containers for carry out D2: Wine and certain drinks for on premises consumption or in sealed containers for carry out D2X: Beer only for on premises consumption or in sealed containers for carry out D3: Liquor for on premises consumption only until 1 a.m. D3A: Extend issued permit privileges until 2:30 a.m. D3X: Wine only for on premises consumption only until 1 a.m. PRIVATE CLUB D4: Beer and any liquor to members only for on premises consumption only until 1 a.m. NIGHT CLUB D5: Liquor for on premises consumption only; beer and wine for on premises or off premises in original sealed containers, until 2:30 a.m. HOTEL AND MOTEL D5A: (same as D5) for hotel or motel with 50 or more rooms for transient guests SPECIAL RESTAURANTS D5I: Beer and liquor by the glass or container for on premises consumption, only until 1 a.m. (restaurants meeting criteria) SUNDAY SALES D6: Sale of liquor on Sunday between 1 p.m. and midnight OTHER D8: Sale of samples of beer, wine and mixed beverages, but not liquor, at retail, for consumption on premises H: PUCO motor carrier to transport beer and liquor, also to railroad

Trading Yankees LLC dba The Yankee Trader Bar & Grill 463 N. High St. Columbus 43215; D1; D2; D5 Mozart’s Inc. dba Vienna Ice Cafe 2899 N. High St. Columbus 43202; D1; D2 Transx Ltd. 2595 Inkster Blvd. Winnipeg Manitoba Canada R3C 2E6; H King Gyros Inc. dba King Cyros Greek Restaurant 400 S. Hamilton Road Whitehal 43213; D1; D2; D5 LICKING COUNTY Day Y. Noche LLC dba Day Y. Noche 134 E. Broadway Granville 43023; D1; D2; D3; D5 Coughlin Investments Ltd. dba Pataskala Pub 1421 E. Broad St., Unit B Pataskala 43068; D5

TRANSFERRING FRANKLIN COUNTY From: G.J.P. Inc. dba Corners Beverage Shoppe 1383 Johnstown Road Gahanna 43230 (change of name and address) To: Tamarkin Co. dba Giant Eagle, No. 6501 1250 N. Hamilton Road & Mezzanine Gahanna 43230; D1; D2; D6 From: 1507-1509 E. Livingston Ave. Columbus 43205 (change of address) To: Le Togolais LLC dba Cleveland Market 3963 Cleveland Ave. Columbus 43224; C1; C2; D6 From: Ailess LLC dba Dirty Frank’s Hot Dogs 248 S. Fourth St., 1st Floor & Partial Basement Columbus 43215 (change of name and address) To: Jose Luis Fletes dba Casa Hacienda Grill 1264 Dublin-Granville Road Columbus 43229; D1; D2; D3; D3A From: Dimmers Inc. dba Phoenix Night Club (change of name) To: Jazz Cafe LLC 980 Barnett Road & Basement Columbus 43227; D1; D2; D3; D3A From: Talal Inc. dba Faye’s Beer & Wine (change of name) To: V.R.S. Market Inc. dba V.R.S. Market 2407 N. High St., 1st Floor Columbus 43202; C1; C2; D6

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Time for Congress to wipe out junk lawsuits

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Our take on the news.

WARREN BUFFETT chimes in that the super-wealthy should pay more in taxes. That’ll keep the Oracle off a lot of holiday party arty lists this year.

STANDARD & POOR’S pumps up mortgage fraud bubble, then chops U.S. credit rating – and watches market downgrade its credibility as the Treasury bond market hums.

QUOTABLE: “There are great people in our name and a lot of tradition and history, but it’s the right thing to do strategically.” – JIM DAVIDSON, on Schottenstein Zox & Dunn retiring its name in combination with Ice Miller.

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ometimes it takes a long time for a good idea to catch on. Our state, Texas, got serious about civil justice reforms starting in 1995, and as the many benefits of reform took hold, the rest of the nation took notice. Now, after years of urging from families and small-business owners, Congress is taking a serious look at ways to limit abusive lawsuits at the federal level. Junk lawsuits clog courts, strap companies and drive up the cost of goods and services we use. Some lawsuits cast a wide net and target companies that should never have been included in the case. Others are downright bogus, but carry the promise of a healthy settlement from companies that may not be able to afford the tens of thousands of dollars it costs to fight even baseless accusations. The Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act, sponsored by U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, would increase sanctions against lawyers who file frivolous lawsuits. Congress once passed a law to impose sanctions against those who file frivolous lawsuits, but it

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got watered down in 1993, when a judge allowed parties and their counsel to avoid sanctions simply by withdrawing their claims. When commenting on the state of our nation’s legal system, Smith said, “Lawsuit abuse has become too common in American society partly because the lawyers who bring these cases have everything to gain and nothing to lose.” Hopefully, the Lawsuit Abuse Reduction Act will change that. It makes sense that federal lawsuit abuse legislation would come from a Texas congressman. Smith knows legal reforms in the state have set the standard and generated undisputed economic benefits. Business publications and news outlets have dubbed Texas the best place to do business. Texas tops the list for job creation. Since the recession officially ended, Texas

has created more than four of every 10 new jobs in America, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. When discussing these statistics, the bank’s CEO, Richard Fisher, said, “The most important thing I think that’s happened to us is tort reform.” Even self-proclaimed left-leaning BusinessWeek columnist Rick Wartzman acknowledges “it is clear that the state’s limits on taxes, regulations and lawsuits are contributing to the job machine.” He goes on to say “for those on the left to dismiss the state’s jobs story out of hand, just because Republicans have embraced it as a showpiece, is counterproductive and foolish.” Let’s hope his words serve as a call for bipartisan cooperation to usher in legal reform at the federal level so that all states – and all citizens – can benefit from the type of legal common sense and fairness that has made Texas renowned. Congressional action on this front has been a long time coming. CHIP HOUGH is president of Basic Industries in Corpus Christi, Texas, and is a board member of Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse of Central Texas.

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Taxes must be part of open debate about debt woes

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uch of the media coverage and political commentary about lower taxes rates ignores the fact our income tax rates have not been this low since 1916, before World War I, with the exception of the period from 1988 to 1992. That said, our deficits are not new. They have been with us since 2001 and were caused primarily by the Bush tax cuts and two unfunded wars in the Middle East. The tax cuts were designed to return to taxpayers the surplus that was generated in the late 1990s. But it is not income tax rates or regulations that promote or discourage business activity and investment. Rather, it is the uncertainty about change that causes businesses and individuals to question investing, thereby impeding economic development. Since 2001, the flow of tax revenue has been insufficient to pay for our wars, the cost of government, or the effects of a declining economy. Given our debt, more tax revenue must be generated to pay it down over time and cover the cost of public services – a simple premise but an essential aspect to determining the role of our government and how we pay for the government we want and need. It is important to note Social Security, one of the main so-called “entitlement” programs cited in the debate over the national deficit, has not contributed to our debt.

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Nor has it been part of the cause of these 10 years of deficits. Instead, Social Security has helped to fund the government and make up for part of the lower tax revenue. While it has done this in the past, it will not and cannot continue to do that indefinitely. I hear it often said by those who oppose new taxes that the levies cannot be raised during a recession because it would “kill the recovery.” But history shows that taxes were raised in 1932 and 1993, periods of deep economic trouble, and the economy improved in both cases. If we were to raise tax rates to the level of the 1990s and there was a commitment to not change the rules for 10 years except to correct errors in the law, it would create an environment conducive to spawning business and personal investment. The Treasury would have sufficient money to pay its bills and begin paying down the debt, making it a smaller piece of the economy. The Treasury would not be borrowing, therefore promoting investors to put their money into businesses since the safe U.S. Treasury market would be smaller.

What we need is an openminded discussion about taxes as an integral component of deficit reduction. This is not to suggest going back to tax rates of the 1960s, when the top tax rate was 70 percent, plus a 7.5 percent surtax on that rate to help pay for the Vietnam War. Rather, it should center on the lower tax rates of the 1990s, when the economy was booming. The critical point here is that the economy was booming in both decades despite the different tax rates. As a point of reference, tax rates were increased in 1917, 1942, 1952, 1968 and 1993. The first four were to help pay for wars. The 1993 increase was to work toward solving a deficit, which it did, creating a surplus that lasted until the Bush administration fiscal policies depleted that surplus. As citizens, we must address our problems and challenges with open discourse. It was the spirit of open dialogue that the Founding Fathers practiced – not the Boston Tea Party – that created a nation that has endured for more than two centuries. There should be many new ideas on how we can address the challenges of this time. We must listen to each other. Respect and consideration is a requirement of moving forward. It is imperative because our nation needs us. JIM MAY is a certified public accountant and financial executive in Worthington.

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FBI: Ground-floor room for retail, office tenants FROM PAGE 1 and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio, another Justice Department division, leases offices at 303 Marconi Blvd. The FBI will occupy 44,926 square feet in the planned 51,300-square-foot building as it consolidates its regional operations. Its commitment will leave 6,300 square feet for retail or office tenants on the ground floor. The bureau will lease all 31 planned street-level parking spaces. Gail Montenegro, a spokeswoman for the U.S. General Services Administration, which handles real estate needs for federal agencies, said most of the FBI operations will be moved from 21,000 square feet at 500 S. Front St. in the Brewery District. “The FBI’s current lease is expiring and they were looking to consolidate some office functions and expand their space,” she said in an email to Columbus Business First. “This site was selected because it was the best option meeting the needs and requirements of the federal government.” She declined to provide other details, citing security concerns. The project is situated primarily on a 2.2-acre site Nationwide Realty bought in 2009 for $4 million, but it will extend onto an adjacent 2.6 acres the company owns. “The commitment of the GSA allows us to move forward with the development of the site,” Guegold said.

MATURING DISTRICT It’s just the latest project west of Neil Avenue for Nationwide Realty. It built the Condominiums at North Bank Park at Neil and West Spring Street in 2008, and assembled the land for Huntington Park, where the Triple A Columbus Clippers have played since 2009. The developer is widely believed to have acquired the undeveloped portion of the Buggyworks complex at 400 W. Nationwide Blvd. from an affiliate of Katz Interests Inc. in June. The deal is believed to have occurred through a property tax-exempt transaction that hides the cost. Nationwide Realty and developer Kyle Katz, who turned the first phase of the Buggyworks complex into condominiums, have declined to comment. Nationwide Realty’s moves west of Neil follow a decade of Wittmann Co.’s redevelopment efforts along a 7-acre collection of old industrial properties marketed as the Belmont Block. Principal Jeff Wittmann expects Nationwide Realty to create as much success there as it has in the rest of the Arena District. “I think to get those people in the neighborhood is a positive,” he said. A lot has changed since the Belmont Block project started 10 years ago. Wittmann cited the transformation of the Buggyworks into housing and the construction of Huntington Park as key projects. He also cited Nationwide Realty’s plan to build housing on 25 acres along West Nationwide Boulevard that it is buying from casino developer Penn National Gaming Inc. “It’s really matured,” Wittmann said. “It’s done nothing but get better.” 614-220-5442 | bball@bizjournals.com

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‘RIGHT THING TO DO’ Schottenstein Zox & Dunn will take on the Ice Miller name when the combination begins Jan. 1. That’s a big step for a firm founded in 1966 by legendary Columbus attorney and businessman Mel Schottenstein, who died in 1993. The other two name partners, Ben Zox and Harvey Dunn, serve as senior counsel with the downtown firm. The name change makes sense, Davidson said, because Ice Miller has a broad brand presence. With 224 attorneys, Ice Miller runs offices in Indianapolis and Washington, D.C., plus two in the Chicago area. Schottenstein Zox & Dunn employs 90 lawyers at offices in Columbus and Cleveland. “It’s an emotional decision,” Davidson said of the name change. “There are great people in our name and a lot of tradition and history, but it’s the right thing to do strategically.” The combination, he said, should help Schottenstein Zox & Dunn better serve clients whose interests extend beyond Central Ohio. Ice Miller, meanwhile, will gain a foothold in Ohio’s two largest regions. In addition, each firm has strengths in certain practice areas that are important to clients, Davidson said. For example, Ice Miller delivers a strong municipal finance practice, and Schottenstein Zox & Dunn is known for its work in the alternative investment area for private companies. “We want to provide a range of services that increasingly sophisFILE PHOTO BY JANET ADAMS | BUSINESS FIRST ticated clients are demanding,” Schottenstein Zox & Dunn President Jim Davidson will become a deputy managing Davidson said. “They want lawyers partner of the new firm, while Ice Miller’s Phil Bayt will be chief managing partner. who understand their business. A larger firm Bayt said he and Steven Humke, KINDRED SPIRITS with a bigger footprint chairman of Ice Miller’s strategic will bring all those assets Founded in Indianapo- planning committee, hit it off when to bear.” lis in 1910, Ice Miller start- they met Davidson. Ice Miller’s Phil Bayt will ed in municipal finance “The chemistry was incredible,” become chief managing law and grew into a multi- Bayt said. “We talked like kindred partner of the combined practice group whose spirits. ... We felt like we were lookfirm; Davidson will serve focus areas include em- ing at ourselves in the mirror.” as one of three deputy ployee benefit plans, That includes the firms being managing partners and Bayt: Ice Miller government affairs, real based in Indianapolis and Columleader of the firms’ inteestate, labor issues, litiga- bus, state capitals that are prime gration effort. tion, medical product li- territory for law firms with large Neither firm would disclose fi- ability and immigration. Looking government practices such as those nancial details about the agree- to expand to Ohio, it approached at Ice Miller and Schottenstein Zox ment. Bayt described the arrange- Schottenstein Zox & Dunn in Janu- & Dunn. Bayt said Columbus and ment as a business “combination” ary about the possibility of working Indianapolis also have a lot in comin which the attorneys who are together. mon demographically and as growSchottenstein Zox & Dunn share“Many of our partners at Ice ing business centers. holders will join Ice Miller as part- Miller knew that firm from variIn addition, Schottenstein Zox ners. ous transactions,” Bayt said. “They & Dunn’s Cleveland office will give “We are very happy and excited found SZD’s partners to have amaz- Ice Miller access to another capital about this transaction,” he said. ingly great reputations, and the markets city that is home to major firm had a great reputation, too.” banking and finance operations, Bayt said. Each firm will bring high-profile clients to the combined practice. Ice Miller’s client list includes Indianapolis Motor Speedway, handbag maker Vera Bradley Sales LLC, Lucas Oil Products Inc., Angie’s List and Indiana University. Business: Law firm Business: Law firm Among Schottenstein Zox & Based: Indianapolis Based: Columbus Dunn area clients are Big Lots Inc., Chief managing partner: Phil Bayt President: Jim Davidson Huntington Bancshares Inc., NaEmployees: 276 Employees: 166 tionwide Mutual Insurance Co., Attorneys: 224 Attorneys: 90 Limited Stores LLC and Honey2010 gross revenue: $129 million 2010 revenue: Would not disclose Baked Ham Co. Founded: 1910 Founded: 1966 Web site: icemiller.com Web site: szd.com 614-220-5456 | jabell@bizjournals.com

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MICRO: Expanded DIY computer parts area FROM PAGE 1 and prices are falling. But Micro Center isn’t so much chasing new customers as trying to appeal more to its loyal customers, said Merchandise Manager Lee McDonald. “The (HDTV) marketplace is similar to computers,” he said. “Micro Center always has done well with computers. Those customers want to buy televisions from us, too.” The expanded selection is part of a test at its Bethel Road store, which could be expanded to Micro Center’s other 22 shops.

TRUSTED SOURCE The experiment includes merchandising more than 70 HDTVs of all major brands, up from around 30 before. The chain began selling high-def TVs in 2007 with little fanfare, offering a smattering of them mixed in with the computers on display. “There wasn’t a big emphasis on it,” said Ed Lukens, spokesman for parent Micro Electronics Inc. “Customers told us if we’re going to offer it, we better get in all the way and give them what they want, or not do it at all.” Alan Wolf, senior editor of trade publication This Week In Consumer Electronics, said despite the hypercompetitive environment for televisions, the initiative could help Micro Electronics smooth out sales fluctuations in the computer industry. “It’s a natural extension,” he said. “But it’s a tough business. Retailers are discounting their way to sales growth.” McDonald acknowledged that, but said Micro Center isn’t concerned. He said the same hallmarks of knowledge and customer service the chain applies to computers, it can bring to HDTV sales. If a television is Internet-capable, Micro Center employees can help customers get on the ’Net, he said. If there is a cool gadget or feature, such as the ability to control the home entertainment system from a phone, associates are trained to show shoppers how to do that. Pricing will compete with online retailers such as Amazon.com, TigerDirect.com and NewEgg.com – the same approach used in computers – rather than big-box competitors like Best Buy Co. or HHGregg Inc. “Big boxes get higher margins off these,” Lukens said. Televisions aren’t intended to be a loss leader or sale door-buster for the chain, McDonald said. The goal is to price them competitively, not drive rushes of customers to televisions in the hopes they’ll buy bells and whistles for their computers as well. “We have a very targeted audience,” Lukens said. “If you’re not in that audience, you may not know we exist.” The addition of an HDTV department was the capstone of a three-week renovation of the 45,000-square-foot Bethel Road store. Aisles were shifted to create better sight lines and more detailed department signs were hung. The store added a “knowledge bar” of-

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Merchandise Manager Lee McDonald said Micro Center’s knowledgeable customer service sets it apart from online retailers and big-box electronics stores. fering free service and technical support, similar to the Genius Bar found at Apple Inc. stores. And it expanded its build-your-own components section, which McDonald said is among the most popular areas of the store. “It’s hard to find a place that has one (cooling) fan, let alone 30 or 40,” he said. “We have 16 feet of shelf space dedicated to fan connector cords.”

AT ITS OWN PACE Micro Center was founded in 1979 with a store on Lane Avenue. Lukens said the original store was the largest computer store in the world in the early 1980s. It moved to Bethel Road in 1996. Despite its small store count, This Week In Consumer Electronics ranked Micro Center 16th in its annual top 100 consumer electronics

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retailers list, with $1.59 billion in sales last year, up 16 percent from 2009. “They’re really the last of the brick-and-mortar computer specialty retailers,” Wolf said. “Even Apple is less about computers now than music and movies, iPods and iPads.” Lukens said same-store sales have increased monthly at Micro Center for more than five consecutive years. Wolf said consumers are flocking to the Internet to diagnose and repair computer problems, but there will always be a group that wants fast, hands-on solutions with the help of trained professionals. “They’ve found their niche,” he said. “They’ve been smart not to overextend themselves. A lot of specialty retailers in electronics built out too quick, too far.” Lukens said Micro Center may run just 23 stores, but each pulls in customers from a wide radius. The company opened its newest store last year in Yonkers, N.Y. Prior to that, the additions were in Brentwood, Mo., in 2009, and north New Jersey and Rockville, Md., in 2007. That growth pace could accelerate next year, but Lukens wouldn’t put a number on how many new stores are possible. “Borders’ closing presents us with some opportunities,” he said. 614-220-5462 | deaton@bizjournals.com

FROM PAGE 3 dures involved in the deal. O’Dell declined to comment for this report. The $5 million investment by O’Dell’s group is contingent on a larger stock offering bringing in at least $16.5 million. If the big offering succeeds, O’Dell’s group would wind up with an ownership stake of between 14.7 percent and 18.8 percent, Central Federal said. The investors also would get a significant level of control over the bank by constituting its top management and half of its board. O’Dell’s fellow investor, Thad Perry, would become president. Regulators gave the bank until Sept. 30 to raise the additional capital, but it hasn’t disclosed a time line for a shareholder vote on the plan. Stockholders also will be asked to vote on a reverse split of the company’s shares in a bid to boost the share price. Central Federal’s stock was hit with a delisting warning after its price fell below Nasdaq minimums. It closed at 80 cents Aug. 16. The prospects for shareholder approvals are unclear. One wrinkle is that Central Federal counts three institutional investors that own more than 5 percent of its stock, inCENTRAL FEDERAL CORP. cluding one with an 11 percent stake and another holding 9.9 Business: Holding company percent of the outstanding for CFBank shares. Neither returned calls Based: Fairlawn for this article. CEO: Eloise Mackus ANOTHER SHOT Offices: Worthington, Fairlawn, Calcutta, Wellsville The Central Federal deal isn’t Employees: 68 O’Dell’s first shot at buying into Assets: $273.4 million a bank. He led an investment 2010 revenue: $15.1 million group that attempted to buy 2010 loss: $6.1 million Bramble Savings Bank of Mil52-week high: $2.26 ford last year. The suburban Cincinnati bank was later shut 52-week low: 45 cents by the Federal Deposit InsurAug. 16 close: 80 cents ance Corp. and sold to another Market/ticker: Nasdaq:CFBK bank. Website: cfbankonline.com His partners in that endeavor included some involved in the Central Federal plan, including James Frauenberg, whose father founded payday lender CheckSmart Financial Co., and former Worthington Industries Inc. President Donal Malenick. The investor list for the Bramble deal also included former Columbus Partnership CEO Bob Milbourne, who did not return a call for comment on whether he has joined O’Dell’s Central Federal effort. Three groups showed interest in investing in Central Federal, with two making proposals, Central Federal said in its proxy filing. No other banks have displayed an interest in acquiring the entire company, Central Federal said, though one unnamed suitor offered to buy its Worthington branch. The bank rejected that offer. 614-220-5450 | aburns@bizjournals.com

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GOLF: Teed off by falling revenue FROM PAGE 3 available on Blacklick’s 18-hole championship course and the shorter nine-hole executive layout. The idea for the project had been batted around for years but gained momentum when Towle was hired as golf manager last year, said Metro Parks Deputy Director Larry Peck. Construction began in July and should be completed by spring. Like many public courses, Blacklick Woods has seen a fall-off in business. Rounds played on the two courses dropped from about 50,000 in 2005 to 38,000 last year. Peck attributed the decline to a combination of factors that include the development of new courses over the past 15 years, economic fallout from the recession and people finding less time for leisure activities. Blacklick also lacked a driving range, missing out on the revenue that such facilities can generate to help support course operations. Add it up, Peck said, and the courses had an operating deficit of about $25,000 last year, with losses expected to go higher in the future primarily due to rising personnel costs. That is a major change from 10 to 15 years ago, when it was common for Blacklick to enjoy annual operating surpluses of more than $200,000, he said. “We came to the conclusion that we needed to so something dramatic and not just a little fix here or a tweak there,” Peck said. “We want to get ahead of what we think is an unacceptable trend of revenue declines and cost increases.”

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BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE Working with Columbus-based Hurdzan/Fry Environmental Golf Design, Metro Parks came up with a plan for a learning center that is projected to generate $75,000 to $85,000 in annual revenue and attract more players to the championship and executive courses, Peck said. Using its construction crews, Metro Parks expects to complete the project for about 614-220-5456 | jabell@bizjournals.com $160,000. Hurdzan/Fry designed the practice facility and par3 links course at Golf VilMain St. lage at Central Park, which 40 opened this summer in GaBlacklick Woods Golf hanna. Like the instruction Metro Park 270 courses center at Blacklick Woods, Livingston Ave. Golf Village is aimed at making the game friendBrice lier to new players and less Rd. time-consuming. 70 Towle thinks that is where golf course design is headed as the industry tries to make Tussing Turnberry the game more appealing to Rd. Golf Course 256 junior golfers and working

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