Hilliard’s Bright Outlook
The City of Hilliard continues to head into a promising and sustainable future.
Our business community demonstrates innovation, progress and significant economic growth, led by the public-private successes of the Hilliard City Lab initiative.
Major public and private projects are in the works that are enhancing our residents’ already-great quality of life. For example, you can read about The Well and the Hilliard Recreational and Wellness Campus on the following pages.
And Hilliard is frequently recognized as a leading player in Central Ohio, the state, this nation, and around the world.
In each of the past two years, Hilliard was named the Best Suburb to Do Business In by Columbus CEO magazine.
It also was one of the Intelligent Community Forum’s Top 7 Intelligent Communities in 2023 and 2024—and is
in the running for this same honor from ICF later in 2025!
And Fast Company recently named Hilliard one of the most innovative companies in economic development for 2025.
Our shared progress and successes are not mere coincidence. The City of Hilliard collaborates with its residents, businesses and non-profit organizations to co-create a worldclass community recognized for its forward-thinking mindset.
This momentum is the result of significant thought and coordinated planning by our residents, businesses, elected officials and the dedicated public service professionals on city staff. The result of this planning and teamwork is exceptional quality of life for Hilliard residents—a safe, beautiful, welcoming community where people are proud to live, work, learn, play and raise their families.
All of this is also possible thanks to the City of Hilliard’s solid financial foundation and fiscal management.
In the following pages, you’ll see there is a lot to be proud of in Hilliard, and we know the best is yet to come!
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LIVE • WORK • CREATE • PLAY
Hilliard is rich with opportunities for a well-rounded life.
THE WELL
The city’s new recreational complex combines the best of exercise, fun and medical care.
DOWNTOWN ENERGY
With creative entrepreneurs and one-of-a-kind restaurants and places to enjoy a sip, Downtown Hilliard is a destination.
ON THE COVER: Hilliard’s annual Freedom Fest is the community’s crown jewel event, drawing more than 40,000 people for fireworks, concerts and family fun. PHOTO COURTESY CITY OF HILLIARD
SCHOOLS WORTH MOVING FOR A top-rated school district focused on the future.
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Hilliard is rich with opportunities for families, entrepreneurs and businesses to find a home, launch an idea and build a fun, well-rounded life in a city dedicated to growing strategically.
By Peter Tonguette
For a lifelong Hilliard resident like Samantha Brill, it’s hard to miss the ways in which the city has grown, diversified and broadened its horizons over the last several decades.
“When I was in high school, the most exciting thing was to go to Bill’s Food Mart, which is the Circle K now,” says Brill, now the executive director of Destination Hilliard. “It has just changed, so much, so fast, and yet in a responsible way. It [is] a great space for people to come, whether they’re coming from a neighboring city or from several hours away.”
Between city support for business entrepreneurs and innovators, a concerted effort to expand its housing stock and a rich mix of things to do and places to go, Hilliard is primed to
set itself apart from other Central Ohio suburbs. “It’s certainly a very exciting time to be a part of Hilliard,” says assistant city manager Dan Ralley.
“It’s easy for me to see these projects starting to build upon each other and getting to a critical mass where there’s energy that is going on that helps facilitate future projects.”
We recently spoke with a variety of Hilliard officials and leaders about the myriad ways in which the city has become an ideal place to live, work, create and play.
Housing Bounty
Ralley remembers growing up in Central Ohio and watching Hilliard transform from a small community 30
years ago to a city of 38,000 today.
Asked to account for the city’s growth, Ralley points to several factors, including a quality school district that remains appealing for families and the ability to develop westward in an intentional, thoughtful manner. The city’s accessibility to leading employers also weighs heavily in its appeal.
“We regularly talk to people at Ohio State [University], and Hilliard is apparently the second-largest area of staff and faculty on the Ohio State health insurance plan,” he says. “That definitely is one of the draws: its proximity to [employers] like Ohio State.”
Three decades ago, the city’s housing supply consisted in large part of post-World War II starter homes that were modest in size and affordable,
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Fun at Hilliard’s Station Park
Ralley says. In the subsequent decades, the focus shifted to higher-end housing. Upon the completion of Hilliard’s Comprehensive Plan Update in 2023, leaders identified the need to introduce “missing middle” housing into the community, including affordably priced duplexes or even fourplexes. The city is in the midst of updating zoning codes to permit such housing to spring up in areas previously designated for different uses. “We are looking to allow housing, for example, in some of the parcels along I-270 that historically would have been exclusively suburban office,” Ralley says. “We’re looking at ways to allow housing with a little bit more density in some places where we already have single-family housing, along arterial roadways like Cemetery Road.”
The need for more (and more affordable) housing is not just a matter of growing the residential base of Hilliard but also satisfying the needs of businesses, especially those in the technology sector. “In order for them to attract employees, …there needs to be obtainable housing for employees that allows them to live either in the same community where they’re working or in close proximity to where they’re working,” Ralley says.
All plans for the future are made with an eye toward the past. When changes are made to zoning codes, Ralley says, the city seeks to establish buffer areas between existing residential spaces and the proposed new developments. “In areas where you have a little bit more density, it might be stepping down the scale of that development as it gets closer to existing housing,” he says.
Other current developments include Epcon Communities’ Courtyards at Carr Farms, on Leppert Road, with an inventory aimed at empty-nesters. “The housing may not actually be smaller than what people move out of, … but there is a lot less care that [homeowners] have to take of the property as a whole,” Ralley says. “The lots are much smaller; there are some common amenities that they’re able to enjoy.” There is also robust growth at the mixed-use
TruePointe development, which boasts the headquarters of Advanced Drainage Systems as well as several hundred apartments.
Business Boom
Several years ago, Hilliard leaders realized they needed to distinguish their city from the pack. “Central Ohio is a great region, but really how do we differentiate ourselves across our peer communities?” says David Meadows, the city’s director of economic development. This led to the commissioning of a five-year strategic plan, which
reaffirmed the city’s commitment to working collaboratively with entrepreneurs in advanced technology and advanced manufacturing.
Through the Hilliard City Lab, startups are invited to team with the city to put their ideas and technologies to the test with the goal of growing their burgeoning businesses. “Just by sitting with [business leaders] and meeting with them, you’re hearing their business plan, they’re identifying who their customers are, they’re identifying pitfalls and the things that keep them up at night,” Meadows says. “Our job
The splash pad at Hilliard’s Station Park PHOTO COURTESY CITY OF HILLIARD
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is to help throw fuel on the fire and try to get it to a point where they can pass [or] fail. Some ideas are going to be great; some of them require a pivot.”
Further contributing to Hilliard’s emergence as a high-tech hub was the addition of a 30-mile municipal fiber optic network. Such initiatives have helped brand Hilliard as an ideal place to do business, especially that of the cutting-edge kind. “This isn’t just a normal city government—there’s a culture here that we truly want to help,” Meadows says.
Meadows says that the city expects further growth in the automotive technology and information technology sectors as well as in healthcare and applied science. “We don’t have sites that are a thousand acres, so getting a big plant like that probably isn’t in our cards,” he says, but companies in the supply chain of such plants are very much in their plans. “I think what we’re going to see here is the smaller facilities, the midsize manufacturers that kind of looks an office building on the outside but really supports scientists and engineering within the walls.”
Combined with its eagerness to work with entrepreneurs, Hilliard’s unique blend of attributes is hard for businesses to pass up. “Great school district, great residents—and we can have a lot of economic success within that,” Meadows says.
A Destination Once More
Once upon a time, Hilliard was a destination because it was on the Piqua and Indiana Railroad. “Hilliard was a trainstop town—John Hilliard purchased this space because he anticipated it would become a train stop,” Brill, of Destination Hilliard, says. These days, the city has become a destination in an altogether different way.
From unique shops to exciting dining to one-of-a-kind attractions, Hilliard offers plenty of reasons for Central Ohioans—and Ohioans more broadly— to pay a visit. “It’s a great place to make your home for a couple of days if you have some things you want to see,” Brill says.
As Brill sees it, the city wins over visitors with its authenticity. “The places in Hilliard that you come to visit are unexpected, but they work,” she says. “They are just a little bit different than what you might find other places.” For example, the popular restaurant Bears Bagels is housed in a gas station complex. “It’s getting a lot of national attention, being named one of USA Today’s best new restaurants,” she says. “There’s such an eclectic vibe in Hilliard.” Other hidden gems include Packrat Comics and Brewing Intuition, a so-called “modern apothecary” that sells organic herbs.
Transformational in the city’s evolution was the 2015 opening of Hilliard’s Station Park, which has become the hub of the community around which a
retail sector has sprung up. “Hilliard’s Station Park is right in the center of Downtown Hilliard,” Brill says. Crooked Can Brewing, the Center Street Market food hall, and Otie’s Tavern and Grill are adjacent to the park.
“Downtown Hilliard has also added some retail, which is something that was really needed,” she says, pointing to the Shops by Westwood, which includes Birch Tree Home, MAK Home Furnishings and the Urban Market.
“Hilliard is a place that doesn’t make snap judgments,” Brill says. “People are willing to try things. … I think Hilliard is such an accepting community that even the business owners can take those risks, and they’re finding success with that.”
In keeping with the city’s offbeat
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Downtown Tree Lighting
spirit is the Early Television Museum on Franklin Street. “On the outside, it is not flashy at all,” Brill says. “But you walk in and the stuff they have in there is so cool.” Among the notable objects on display are a vintage news truck and a gigantic RCA dog. Plus, a multitude of examples of early televisions are scattered across the museum’s various rooms.
The city takes rightful pride in Downtown Hilliard’s First Responders Park, which was built in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. “It has artifacts from the World Trade Center [and] some of the steel,” Brill says. “It has some very meaningful sculptures with a lot of symbolism throughout, [including] fire hoses with the nozzles having a number of
significance.” The park, which opened on the nine-year anniversary of the attacks, is scheduled to close for renovations with reopening anticipated by the late summer for its 15-year anniversary, Brill says.
A Parks and Rec Paradise
Whether you want to take a walk, a hike or simply a stroll, Hilliard has ample space to set out on foot.
“We have a ton of parks around the community,” says Ed Merritt, director of recreation and parks. “We have roughly 24 parks, a little over 500 acres.”
In a nod to the history of Hilliard, its Heritage Trail was formed on an unused rail bed. The city hopes to extend the success of the existing trail by
expanding it. “We were able to partner with many other agencies throughout Central Ohio: the Metro Parks, City of Columbus, as well as some other municipal agencies to make that a reality.”
Described as “the backbone of our system,” Merritt says that the trail presently connects Hilliard northward with plans to make a southward connection that will link the city to Columbus. “It’s just utilized by tons of different families, not only to get through and get down into the Downtown area, but for exercise and enjoyment,” Merritt says.
The city is also lined with baseball and softball diamonds, rectangular field spaces, basketball, pickleball and tennis courts, and more.
Active families soon will be able to avail themselves of The Well, a medically integrated 111,000-square-foot community center created in tandem with the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. In addition to offering Ohio State’s comprehensive medical services—including, among the 25,000 square feet to be occupied by OSU, rehabilitation and geriatric services—the complex will include two indoor pools, a walk-run track, a gymnasium space, fitness studios and multi-use classrooms, among other features.
As for community events, the annual Freedom Fest on Independence Day gets revelers in a festive spirit with a Downtown parade before culminating with a concert and a fireworks display at Municipal Park. On most Thursdays all summer long, Celebration at the Station concerts, in Hilliard’s Station Park, brings out music lovers from around the region. “Each week we’ll pull around three to five thousand individuals for that party,” Merritt says. “It’s in a DORA area so people congregate down there, listening to the music.”
Whether one lives, works or merely stops by Hilliard, such features make the community one of Central Ohio’s most vibrant.
“The ability to offer different activities, parks, amenities, special events continues to draw our community together,” Merritt says.
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Thursday night concert series
LIVE WELL, BE WELL
When it opens in mid-2025, Hilliard’s new health and recreation complex, The Well, will combine modern exercise facilities with medical care, creating one of the top parks and rec centers in Central Ohio.
By Laura Newpoff
Picture a pole barn with a full-court gymnasium with bright blue floors. Attached to it is office, classroom and multi-purpose space, and attached to that is a senior center. These structures make up the Hilliard Community Center, which has served as a gathering place for residents for nearly 50 years.
Following a change from a strong mayor-council form of government to a council-manager form of government, city leaders started formulating plans to hold focus groups and survey residents about what they’d like to see from their Recreation and Parks Department, including the future of the center. In 2021, City Council established a recreation and parks advisory committee to commission and evaluate studies. This included a regional
market assessment that examined the types of recreational facilities, programs and services that were needed.
When the committee received feedback that same year about what the community would like to see, it got the usual ask for more walking paths, trails and connectivity—and also a large number of requests for a brand new building.
When the community center opened in 1977, the city had a population of about 8,000 people. Its population today is nearly 40,000.
“Residents wanted a facility that would serve all the needs of the community,” says Ed Merritt, Recreation and Parks director. “We wanted to make it as multi-purpose as possible.”
Set to open in fall 2025, The Well Hilliard Recreation & Wellness Center will be a 111,000-square-foot campus
at Scioto Darby and Alton Darby Creek roads. It will include a gymnasium, indoor running track, fitness and weight room, aerobic dance and fitness studios, classrooms, a 240-person community events room, commercial kitchen, child watch area, outdoor patio and aquatic facility that includes a lap pool, recreation activity pool, water slide and spa.
The campus will include 20 grass athletic fields and two synthetic turf fields.
Nearly 25,000 square feet of space inside the Well will be dedicated to an integrated medical health and wellness center managed by the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. It will offer rehabilitation and physical therapy, urgent care and mental and behavioral health services. “We realized we needed to meet people where they are and we want to be a part of
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The Well is set to open in fall 2025.
people’s everyday life to help them live a healthier life,” says Jodi Kuri, ambulatory director of wellness and outreach. It’s hoped that offering greater access to high-quality care closer to home will help Hilliard residents with disease prevention, she says.
Brendan Greisberger, OSU Wexner’s program director of health and wellbeing for The Well, says that includes its “Exercise is Medicine” programming.
OSU Wexner is an ardent supporter and active participant in the global initiative to make physical activity and exercise a standard part of disease prevention and treatment. The program will help members of The Well with the initial motivation and longterm support they need to succeed with their exercise routines.
The Well was designed to foster a community-centered approach to wellness. Through a combination of modern facilities, supportive community programs and a commitment to
accessibility, the center is intended to be a vital resource for the community. That includes serving the area’s large Muslim population by including a room where people can wash their hands, faces, arms and feet before prayer.
“We want to be accommodating for all populations,” says Erin Duffee, deputy director at Recreation and Parks.
Construction was financed in part by a 2021 voter-approved 0.5% income tax increase and debt financing. Operating costs will be covered by membership fees. Hilliard residents will start at $30 per month, or $288 per year, with each individual family member or senior being $20 per month or $192 per year.
People who work within the city’s corporate boundaries will enjoy the same rate. Non-resident rates start at $60 per month or $576 per year. Additional family members and seniors will be $40 per month or $384 per year.
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Merritt says The Well will be transformational for the city and change the face of Recreation and Parks forever. Both he and Duffee have worked at facilities like this in other cities and have seen first-hand how residents benefit.
“There’s a reason it is named The Well. It’s a gathering space, a place people are going to be able to come together and recreate and participate in a lot of different activities and programs,” he says. “Each person will have a different reason why [they go there]. And then, having a partner like the OSU Wexner Medical Center to offer a medically integrated facility—you can really see that being a part of the future wave of how to do these types of facilities. We want to make our constituents healthier and give them tools to be active and healthy from a preventative standpoint. Having so many different facets of that in what this facility can do is super exciting.”
DOWNTOWN ENERGY
Hilliard’s city center has emerged as a gathering place for the community, which shows up every day to enjoy creative food and drink establishments launched and grown by neighbors with a lively vision for the city.
By Nicholas Dekker
Thanks to public and private investment over the past decade, downtown Hilliard has grown from a sleepy center lined with antiques stores and banks to a bustling main street with parks and bike trails, a market hall with a brewery, coffee shops, bakeries and beer gardens.
Angela Zody, Hilliard’s downtown manager, has helped usher in those changes. “My family has lived in Hilliard for 28 years; we raised all four of our kids here,” she says. “We absolutely love this community. Like most families in our generation, we came here for the schools. Now people are attracted to our city for our downtown.”
Zody credits Economic Development Director David Meadows and Planning Director John Talentino for the work. The upswing started about 10 years ago, when the city created Hilliard’s Station
Park with a music stage, splash pad, bike racks and more. “Once we had the park intact, that’s when we saw businesses that were interested,” Zody says. From there, the city attracted Crooked Can Brewing to serve as the anchor tenant of the new Center Street Market, which immediately began drawing crowds.
“What we were noticing when [the market] opened is people wanted to have space and be outside,” Zody says. “Our team lined that space with tables and closed Center Street. It’s this wonderful flow from our park— concerts, kids events, rentals. Now we’ve seen business after business investing in our downtown.” To that end, the city launched a Designated Outdoor Refreshment Area, or DORA, that allows guests to take adult beverages in marked areas along Main and Center streets.
Meanwhile, the city center has welcomed everything from The Junction coworking space and Sexton’s Pizza, to Firefly Winery, HillGarten and the One9 Golf Lounge. Tortilla Street Food is building a food truck park, while Bears Bagels went from a farmers market favorite to a brick and mortar. “These are all homegrown, Hilliard people who have always had a dream to start a business, and they want to do it in our downtown,” Zody adds.
Bringing Bagels Downtown Bears Bagels owners Charis and Lo Yost moved to Hilliard in 2020 after starting a family, attracted by the city’s schools and housing. They quickly took to the local offerings, bringing their daughter to the splash pad, visiting the market and riding the bike trails. During the pandemic, they started
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experimenting with making bagels at home, and thanks to Hilliard, they grew it into a business.
“Bears started in our community and our neighborhood,” Charis says. “Coffee Connections was our first wholesale account. They took a chance on us and remembered us from bringing our daughter in. That really sparked the interest in the Hilliard area for us.”
The shop has been successful enough that they sell out regularly, drawing visitors from beyond the city’s borders. But the heart of the shop, still, is the dedicated locals. “We have a guy who comes in so much,” says Charis, “that we put a button in our point of sale called The Rob so we don’t have to type in all the things he orders.”
A Beer Garden for Hilliard
In summer 2022, Marty and Sandy Nowak opened HillGarten, a Germanstyle beer garden with ample outdoor space serving German food, beer
and cocktails. The walkable and family-friendly spot on Main Street seemed a perfect fit for the concept. “I didn’t really pick Hilliard, it picked me,” Marty says.
Marty built more than 80 percent of the business himself, starting early in the morning before heading to his day job and returning in the evenings. “It was just a labor of love, a lot of blood and tears,” he says. “But I kept sitting on a bucket and visualizing people swigging back a beer and enjoying their families and dogs.”
And how has the community reacted to it? “It’s been nothing short of phenomenal,” Marty says.
Making Connections Through Coffee
Perhaps one of the best examples of a Hilliard business becoming a centerpiece of the community is Coffee Connections. Sharon and Nate Grenier first got into the coffee business with a cart serving visitors to the splash
pad. “We wanted to create a community space that people could come to connect,” Sharon Greiner says.
The Greniers struck up a connection with Tom Herlihy, owner of Solar Café in Hillard, who offered to sell them the business. They decided to take it over in 2016.
“Hilliard is a special community,” she says. “It has all the big town amenities with a small town feel. It’s safe, the community will reach out and help each other.” The coffee shop and the community have supported each other in turn. Coffee Connections regularly raises funds for local causes, the community returned the favor during the pandemic, when the shop asked for support to stay open. “Hilliard just showed up,” Sharon says. “The next day we sold out. People were willing to buy stickers, offer donations, saying, ‘You belong in our community.’ That doesn’t happen everywhere.”
HEAD OF THE CLASS
By Virginia Brown
From consecutive top state rankings to innovative workforce partnerships and a recent $142 million community investment in infrastructure, there’s no question that Hilliard City Schools are on the rise.
Located roughly 15 miles northwest of Downtown Columbus, Hilliard City Schools serves just over 16,000 students in kindergarten through 12th grade, in three high schools, three middle schools, two sixth-grade schools and 14 elementary schools. The district also operates a transportation center, an administration building and a maintenance and resource center.
The district is focused on nurturing well-adjusted citizens of the future.
“We prepare every student, without exception, to be ready for their own tomorrow,” says Stacie Raterman, the district’s director of communications.
“Every step at every stage is different, so we focus on finding ways to get every student ready.”
For one, the school’s Innovation
Campus offers programs to enhance in-school opportunities for students. Programs fall into five categories, including college jumpstart, imagination, personal success, global and young professionals. “Families are choosing Hilliard City Schools because we are focused on and committed to high standards, and we have such great opportunities,” she says.
Some creative projects include Academy VIBE, an arts and science credit in which students focus on sound recording/engineering, original composition and other critical elements of the business behind the arts. Courses include rock band and media communications.
Academy EDU allows high school students to explore the ins and outs of the teaching profession. Students observe elementary, middle and special
education classrooms while contributing to lesson plans, community service, tutoring and more. “Career exploration is embedded in just about everything we do,” says Raterman.
Each fall, the district also hosts an annual Skilled Trades and Safety Career Expo for 11th and 12th graders at the Franklin County Fairgrounds. Through partnerships across the state, including the Ohio Contractors Association, the Associated General Contractors of America, and the Building Trades Council, plus contractors, trade organizations, fire and police departments, students get to learn about in-demand career options that bypass college after graduation.
“Some of our students know they want to go to college, some want to go to the military, and others are on the fence about whether they want to go to college or not,” Raterman says. “The students get hands-on experiences, like operating in a digger, learning how to weld or do masonry, and lots more.”
Hilliard City Schools consistently see high marks on the state of Ohio success metrics, earning a 4.5 out of 5 in the state’s School Report Card ratings. The overall rating comprises five components, including academic achievement, progress, graduation rates and early literacy.
For the last two years, Hilliard City Schools also earned the top state ranking for value-added measures.
“Regardless of where students start, value-added measures look at how our district teachers have grown students over
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Kindergarten classroom at Alton Darby Elementary
the course of a year,” says Raterman.
To ready their students for the future, school leadership, with the help of a collective including students, staff, families and community members, created the district’s Portrait of a Learner, outlined five elements that make up a successful citizen of the future: critical thinking, self-advocacy, resiliency, empathy through global awareness and respect and purposeful communication.
Resilient learners, for example, respond productively in an ever-changing world. They are agile and eager to learn, unlearn, and relearn to grow. Critical thinkers are taught to gather, analyze and evaluate information and ideas and to think deeply to develop innovative solutions.
In today’s increasingly global and often polarized environment, fostering empathy is critical. Empathetic citizens demonstrate global awareness and respect and act with compassion for others. Students are also taught to be their own self advocates, to understand the importance of a healthy, well-rounded life, including physical, mental, social-emotional and digital wellness. Finally, they communicate clearly, listen actively and collaborate effectively with others.
Investing in the future of every student of course takes an investment from the community. In November 2024, the community passed a levy to issue $142 million in bonds to address the district’s growing needs and future plans.
The district is currently in the first phase of its Master Facilities Plan, which focuses on creating new elementary spaces, a third 6th grade center and converting existing spaces into 6th grade spaces. It plans to replace and rebuild three new elementary schools, add a preschool center, renovate playgrounds, weight rooms, athletic fields and performing arts spaces. The updates also will include district-wide safety upgrades.
““It’s just another way that the community shows they want to work with us and grow with us,” says Raterman. “It’s really exciting.”
To learn more, visit hilliardschools.org.
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