A well-rounded, thriving community is not only a good place to live but also a great place to do business.
In addition to quality-of-life benefits like excellent schools and well-maintained parks, Dublin stands out as a supportive environment for companies of all sizes and industries.
The City of Dublin has made economic development a top priority, developing a suite of resources, amenities and incentives to assist in the retention and attraction of businesses. It goes to great lengths to serve both employers and their employees.
The strategy goes well beyond the traditional tax incentives that many communities rely heavily upon. Dublin knows that, in order to remain competitive, governments must move at the speed of business.
To achieve this, the City operates a cross-functional team called Review Services to complete all commercial plan reviews. Their purpose is to perform plan reviews in a unified and coordinated fashion for compliance with building, fire, engineering, landscape and zoning standards. Dublin’s Economic Development team attends the permit review meetings three times per week to help facilitate the approval process and ultimately save companies time and money. With an emphasis on “speed to build,” the City’s Planning and plan-review teams work alongside companies’ project teams to streamline the project through the approval, permitting and construction processes.
Planning in the 1,100-acre West Innovation District is geared to meet the needs of today’s development environment, incorporating economic development strategy alignment, a future passenger rail station and a mixed-use center adjacent to Ohio University’s Dublin Campus.
Other unique resources include last-mile transportation for workers, Dublink fiber optics, grant programs, building permitting assistance, green building grants and performance-based job creation and retention incentives. Businesses can even fill out a short form to find out what incentives they may qualify for.
Recent business-attraction wins include an economic development agreement with Cenovus Energy, establishing the Canadian energy company’s U.S. headquarters in Dublin, and Fallback Studios, a filmmaker planning to open one of the first Hollywood-caliber facilities in the Midwest and dedicated to promoting Central Ohio as a filmmaking destination. Both received job-creation incentives as part of a broader support plan.
All incentive and development support plans are highly tailored to the needs of a company’s project. And economic development officials know that what works today may not work tomorrow or be easily copy-and-pasted to another industry.
Rather, the economic development strategies are dynamic and ever evolving to meet the needs of employers. This is informed by Dublin’s Economic Development office completing over 200 business retention and expansion visits each year.
The City recently hosted an Economic Development Strategic Update to discuss its economic development strategy as well as the Envision Dublin Community Plan, adopted by Dublin City Council in July 2024 that sets a vision and policy direction for the next two decades. Because that work is the cornerstone of the making of a business-friendly community.
Learn more at www.ThriveInDublinOhio.com.
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