1 hour ago, ucgrady said:

But TQL is always on the list of Best Places to Work! Are you suggesting those lists are disingenuous and may or may not be voted on my employees given no other choice and coerced into leaving positive reviews!?!?

In my time working at TQL (4 months right out of college), I once filled out the Best Places to Work survey just to get a free breakfast. Mostly because I wasn't actually paid enough to afford to eat. I also referred a number of people to the company to get time off so I could interview other places (literally I think they gave you 5 days of PTO a year and you were expected to work 6 days a week).

1 hour ago, CBustoCincy said:

In my time working at TQL (4 months right out of college), I once filled out the Best Places to Work survey just to get a free breakfast. Mostly because I wasn't actually paid enough to afford to eat. I also referred a number of people to the company to get time off so I could interview other places (literally I think they gave you 5 days of PTO a year and you were expected to work 6 days a week).

Its certainly a grind there and many of those types of businesses are like that. If you know what you are walking into ahead of time and prepare yourself it wont be so bad but if you dont know what you are getting into it would certainly suck. Pretty much the business model is based on 80% of everyone who starts there failing. They know by the numbers that 20% will succeed and do well under those conditions and enjoy it and the rest will fail. They are just trying to find the ones who will most likely succeed.  Places like Aerotek and staffing firms have the same model. Heck realtors use that model too, the only difference is that realtors are independent contractors so there is very little to no risk to the agency of keeping a non-producer on the roster. 

https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/i-team/seven-years-after-opening-ge-at-the-banks-ge-is-moving-out

25 minutes ago, unusualfire said:

https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/i-team/seven-years-after-opening-ge-at-the-banks-ge-is-moving-out

I heard a bit about this a couple weeks ago, they want everyone on the same site in evendale. Not too much of a big deal, I would assume they may add some office space to its evendale campus at some point. I’m just happy GE is making Cincy its HQ and we are gaining a new Fortune 500 company.

WorldPay HQ coming back. Pretty big news.

 

"The Worldpay family is excited to make Cincinnati our home once again," said Charles Drucker, Incoming CEO of Worldpay. "Access to talent, quality of life, great educational institutions and the new direct flight from CVG Airport to London significantly contributed to the decision to make our corporate headquarters in Greater Cincinnati, connecting us to our customers worldwide.”

 

 

https://www.wlwt.com/amp/article/cincinnati-worldpay-corporate-headquarters/46093208

 

 

 

Where exactly are they moving?

The article doesn't say, but their previous headquarters was off the Fields Ertel exit so my guess would be that same area of the tristate since that's where their employees are/were located. 

Kroger changing work from home policy which will increase activity at its Downtown HQ

 

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2023/12/11/kroger-bringing-thousands-back-office-wft-remote.html

48 minutes ago, ucgrady said:

The article doesn't say, but their previous headquarters was off the Fields Ertel exit so my guess would be that same area of the tristate since that's where their employees are/were located. 

The buzz at the Joseph auto group Real Estate wing today.........GUYS I GOT AN IDEA!

1 hour ago, jmblec2 said:

Where exactly are they moving?

….. Worldpay is expected to reestablish a new headquarters early next year at 8500 Governors Hill Drive in Symmes Township, a northeast suburb of Cincinnati where Worldpay's predecessor, Vantiv, was located.

1 hour ago, 646empire said:

WorldPay HQ coming back. Pretty big news.

 

"The Worldpay family is excited to make Cincinnati our home once again," said Charles Drucker, Incoming CEO of Worldpay. "Access to talent, quality of life, great educational institutions and the new direct flight from CVG Airport to London significantly contributed to the decision to make our corporate headquarters in Greater Cincinnati, connecting us to our customers worldwide.”

 

 

https://www.wlwt.com/amp/article/cincinnati-worldpay-corporate-headquarters/46093208

 

 

 

In one sense it really never left and there really was not a question about whether it was going to return back to Symmes. The CEO, and pretty much the entire C-Suite was already located here as as well as a number of other top department heads. 

 

It was the admission by FIS of a merger gone bad, that did not fit with what FIS was able to do and FIS was not able to capitalize on what Worldpay did given how each business was regulated. Stupid purchase by FIS

15 minutes ago, Brutus_buckeye said:

In one sense it really never left and there really was not a question about whether it was going to return back to Symmes. The CEO, and pretty much the entire C-Suite was already located here as as well as a number of other top department heads. 

True chunks of the company was still here but plenty of jobs got taken over by the FIS Florida HQ or eliminated entirely from overlap. Thats why there will be a big pick up of hundreds of jobs now that its back to being a stand alone company.

Edited December 11, 20231 yr by 646empire

1 hour ago, 646empire said:

True chunks of the company was still here but plenty of jobs got taken over by the FIS Florida HQ or eliminated entirely from overlap. Thats why there will be a big pick up of hundreds of jobs now that its back to being a stand alone company.

True, a lot of of the accounting functions transferred to Jax. Drucker and a lot of the top Worldpay people stayed in Cincinnati with their primary office and would travel to jacksonville as needed. 

In more good jobs news...

 

National Resilience to create 440 new jobs at former AstraZeneca site in Greater Cincinnati

By Brian Planalp – Reporter, Cincinnati Business Courier

Dec 11, 2023

Updated Dec 11, 2023 5:51pm EST

 

National Resilience is leveraging a massive Defense Department contract to create hundreds of new jobs at the former AstraZeneca site in West Chester.

 

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https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2023/12/14/city-manager-sheryl-long-performance-review.html
 

interesting article, Sheryl Long has been relatively quiet in the media for being City Manager. It is concerning that the feedback is that it’s 1) hard to do business with the city and 2) there is zero in the pipeline for housing projects. 
 

I imagine there is some macro economic issues with projects (interest rates / cost of labor etc) but I am curious if the current City Manager is either rejecting market rate proposals to save face with “affordability advocates” or using perfect as the enemy of good? 
 

Regardless, nothing on the docket to close out the year seems odd. 

On 12/17/2023 at 8:09 PM, wjh2 said:

I imagine there is some macro economic issues with projects (interest rates / cost of labor etc) but I am curious if the current City Manager is either rejecting market rate proposals to save face with “affordability advocates” or using perfect as the enemy of good?

Doubtful, that's usually the planning commission or city council. I think they are just encouraging her to simplify the city's bureaucracy and speed up response rate of applications, as well as further increase zoning reform efforts.

It is really accurate that there is "zero in the pipeline" for housing projects? I don't feel like that's true.

13 minutes ago, taestell said:

It is really accurate that there is "zero in the pipeline" for housing projects? I don't feel like that's true.

I know UrbanSites and CMHA are looking to partner again on another deal soon. Dont know the timeline or location for that, but that it would be a complex with affordable housing components to it. So you have to assume that is in the pipeline. 
There are some smaller projects in the works by TQL.

There is the FC project (although the housing component has not been finalized there yet)

3CDC/UrbanSites/Model are always doing stuff in the city.

Didn't they also just break ground on Liberty Commons too?

 

So i cant see the pipeline being zero. 

If the question is how many 30+ story apartment towers are in the pipeline, the answer is probably zero though.

I thought the Skyhouse is still in the works.

General Electric will officially become GE Aviation and a Cincinnati based Fortune 500 company April 2nd. 

 

https://www.investors.com/news/ge-stock-buy-2024-new-ge-aerospace/

Barclays layed off 270 remote Cincinnati call center employees. 
 

https://local12.com/amp/news/local/no-sign-respect-bank-lays-off-270-cincinnati-workers-no-warning-layoff-fired-resign-quit-forced-resignation-barclays-international-bank-call-center-job-living-hamilton-remote-work-otr-violated-workers-rights-severance-pay-money-terminated-warn-notice

P&G sues Dr. Squatch:

https://dockets.justia.com/docket/california/cacdce/2:2024cv04711/928724

 

P&G is trying to force Dr. Squatch into selling to them. 

Everything P&G sells is hyper overscented and full of endocrine disrupter chemicals, can't support them even as an Ohio original.

 

I don't blame Dr Squatch, that would ruin thier cred

Walking past people's houses while they are doing laundry and smelling Tide like the house is a Burger King cooking

Plus Dr. Squatch has Star Wars and every company wants in on Star Wars

Procter & Gamble announces relocation plans, massive expansion in Mason

By Brian Planalp – Staff reporter, Cincinnati Business Courier

Jun 17, 2024

Updated Jun 17, 2024 4:50pm EDT

 

Procter & Gamble will move more than a thousand employees out of the Winton Hill Business Center in the city of Cincinnati over the next five years, with most of them relocating to Mason.

 

Beginning in late 2024 and lasting until 2030, around 800 employees will transition from the Winton Hill facility to 500,000 square feet of space at the Mason Business and Innovation Center on Mason-Montgomery Road. That space includes a 300,000-square-foot expansion.

 

P&G will also move 300 employees to its general offices in downtown Cincinnati at the end of 2024.

 

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So no chance to redevelop that site until 2030???

Kroger will terminate its 24 Billion Dollar Albertsons deal if the court issues a delay. 
 

https://www.wcpo.com/news/local-news/i-team/kroger-vows-to-terminate-albertsons-merger-if-federal-judge-delays-its-closing

 

I agree with Kroger on this pull the plug and move on. I think the Feds may have this one wrong, Albertsons will be in real financial trouble and will still be sold in the future at a discount and more closures. Politics.

 

Edited August 28, 2024Aug 28 by 646empire

I couldn’t help to roll my eyes at this article. This may be true but I’ve heard it all before. I wonder where this Fortune 500 company plans to set up shop??

 

Fortune 500 headquarters headed to Cincinnati, Western & Southern CEO John Barrett says

 

https://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2024/09/30/fortune-500-hq-headed-cincinnati-john-barrett-says.html

 

 

Edited September 30, 2024Sep 30 by 646empire

Were there any additional details provided? I can't read the article.

7 minutes ago, jmblec2 said:

Were there any additional details provided? I can't read the article.

"Between 60 and 200 employees to its Cincinnati headquarters" is the only other detail that's worth noting. Basically whoever it is, they won't be needing a new office tower downtown. 

1 minute ago, ucgrady said:

"Between 60 and 200 employees to its Cincinnati headquarters" is the only other detail that's worth noting. Basically whoever it is, they won't be needing a new office tower downtown. 

I wonder could it be a GE Aerospace or Amazon Air partner or something to that effect.

That was my first thought, GE Aerospace being here and working on new propulsion technology with partners could lead to one of those partners moving a headquarters here instead of Florida where so many are based. Hadn't considered Amazon Air but that could make sense too. 

Greater Cincinnati could vault back up to 9 F500 in the region. I seem to recall we had 10 at one time and that was the most. Maybe?

The prominent Cincinnati executive confirmed he's in talks with a profitable company about relocating to the Queen City, most likely with Downtown offices.

 

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2024/09/30/will-cincinnati-get-an-8th-fortune-500-company/75416157007/

Big time stuff!

GE Aerospace to cement its Fortune 500 status in Cincinnati with annual results.

 

GE Aerospace  is forecast by Wall Street analysts to report nearly $35 billion in annual sales for 2024 on Thursday, clearing the way for the Evendale-based manufacturer to be declared the region’s next Fortune 500 company late this spring.

 

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/money/2025/01/22/ge-aerospace-will-post-annual-sales-confirming-fortune-500-eligibility/77843288007/

Cincinnati has been narrowed down to a top 3 finalist for the Sundance festival relocation with Boulder and Salt Lake City, and in some circles is named as a favorite. The bid is centered around OTR, using many of the existing art venues, and is slated for 2027.

 

I am skeptical it leaves the west until I hear otherwise, but what a huge turn of events this could be! Announcement expected in early spring.

28 minutes ago, CincyIntheKnow said:

Cincinnati has been narrowed down to a top 3 finalist for the Sundance festival relocation with Boulder and Salt Lake City, and in some circles is named as a favorite. The bid is centered around OTR, using many of the existing art venues, and is slated for 2027.

 

I am skeptical it leaves the west until I hear otherwise, but what a huge turn of events this could be! Announcement expected in early spring.

That would be amazing! And you got to think the Emery Theatre may play a role in that as well? Not sure but that’s due for completion in the next few years I believe. 

52 minutes ago, IAGuy39 said:

That would be amazing! And you got to think the Emery Theatre may play a role in that as well? Not sure but that’s due for completion in the next few years I believe. 

Emory, memorial, and music halls along with all the theaters were a part of the bid. 

Sundance has also been inquiring into more than 1 building in OTR about buying a building to house their new headquarters.

On 1/25/2025 at 5:32 PM, IAGuy39 said:

That would be amazing! And you got to think the Emery Theatre may play a role in that as well? Not sure but that’s due for completion in the next few years I believe. 

 

When Sundance was touring downtown via branded golf carts, they toured the Emery.

3 hours ago, Miami-Erie said:

 

When Sundance was touring downtown via branded golf carts, they toured the Emery.

I doubt Boulder or Salt Lake have the concentration of theatres that Cincinnati has. They are also working on the West End Theatre (I forgot the name, Regal?) and the Theatre in Mohawk (I think that’s Imperial)?

 

Sundance could cement the status of these Theatres in addition to them

being linchpins in their respective neighborhoods. 

21 hours ago, IAGuy39 said:

I doubt Boulder or Salt Lake have the concentration of theatres that Cincinnati has. They are also working on the West End Theatre (I forgot the name, Regal?) and the Theatre in Mohawk (I think that’s Imperial)?

 

Sundance could cement the status of these Theatres in addition to them

being linchpins in their respective neighborhoods. 

As cool as having Sundance would be, it is still only a couple weeks a year. I think "cementing" is a bit of an over statement.

5 hours ago, CincyIntheKnow said:

As cool as having Sundance would be, it is still only a couple weeks a year. I think "cementing" is a bit of an over statement.

I think you get however many thousands of arts enthusiasts touring the area, some I am sure quite wealthy, many will step up with programming and funding and perhaps even set up shot in the neighborhood. The Sundance IMO has the potential to have a lasting economic impact beyond the few weeks a year in Cincinnati. Cincinnati is probably less than half the COL as LA or NYC, but has the same type of assets on more levels than not, just at a smaller scale. This day and age everyone is looking to save money and film making is no different. Starving artists and actors the same. Not saying it’s going to be Hollywood but it could be top 5 in the USA for film making and the theatres have a chance to capture that economic impact and the actors and actresses and directors, etc trying to make names

for themselves. This is what I meant. 

Edited January 30Jan 30 by IAGuy39

Sundance is something that would elevate Cincinnati's national profile in a big way. Winning it would be huge but then running it successfully and fully optimizing the opportunities from it would be the real challenge.

Agreed. Sundance would change many peoples perspectives of what Cincinnati already has. Even if there isn’t some immediate economic impact it would give a “cool” factor to the city and help shine some light on what is currently here. 
 

There would obviously be tangible benefits once Sundance got established here, but that is all gravy. The tourism impact alone would be huge.  

1 hour ago, Miami-Erie said:

Sundance is something that would elevate Cincinnati's national profile in a big way. Winning it would be huge but then running it successfully and fully optimizing the opportunities from it would be the real challenge.

 

I think Cincinnati has a shot if the region can convince Sundance that we're willing to go truly "all in" on the event. Blink has shown that when get all of the regional governments, non-profits, and corporations working together to promote and fund and run a large event, we can do it really well. Sundance would be the same thing, but bigger, and annually instead of biannually. But, since Sundance is already an internationally known event, it would have a significantly larger impact on Cincinnati's brand than Blink does.

I know a guy whose film won at Sundance back in 1999 or 2000.  He wasn't from money, his film cost $20,000 to make in late-90s dollars, and then he had to go into deeper credit card debt to attend the event where he won a major award.  A trip to Cincinnati for filmmakers, reporters, bloggers, etc., is going to be WAY cheaper than tiny Park City, UT, where there is little chance tha a newcomer can pull off crashing on a couch to avoid $500/night hotels.   

On 1/31/2025 at 12:12 PM, taestell said:

 

I think Cincinnati has a shot if the region can convince Sundance that we're willing to go truly "all in" on the event. Blink has shown that when get all of the regional governments, non-profits, and corporations working together to promote and fund and run a large event, we can do it really well. Sundance would be the same thing, but bigger, and annually instead of biannually. But, since Sundance is already an internationally known event, it would have a significantly larger impact on Cincinnati's brand than Blink does.

Interesting…… Definitely stay tuned.

 

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/entertainment/movies/2025/02/03/sundance-film-festival-ceo-expensive-host-festival-mountain-town-cincinnati/78179130007/

 

 

 

 

 

Edited February 3Feb 3 by 646empire

This would be the biggest event pickup is the history of the city period and even Ohio for that matter. The amount of publicity and money this would bring is massive. I can tell you from contacts that the scope of Sundance in Cincinnati would be insane. 

Edited February 3Feb 3 by 646empire