Editor's Picks: New Davey, AMETEK Buildings Open Downtown
Kent Patch gives you the editor's picks for top 10 stories of 2012.
Downtown Redevelopment
Members of Kent City Council gather with the city's public and private redevelopment partners to accept an award from the Ohio Economic Development Association, which named Kent's redevelopment the best project in Ohio for 2012. Council accepted the award Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012.
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Editor's note: this year marked the clichéd return to its roots for The Davey Tree Expert Company, which, along with AMETEK, moved about 90 employees to downtown Kent.
Davey Tree got its start downtown, and the firm moved its Stow-based Davey Resource Group back to downtown Kent this year to anchor the first of two new buildings built by Fairmount Properties as part of Kent's redevelopment.
AMETEK followed suit by moving into the second building. Combined, both firms brought closed to 200 well-paid professionals downtown.
The two new buildings also brought with them about a dozen new shops and eateries.
For 2012, the opening of these two new buildings is one of my picks for top 10 stories of the year.
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Roger
10:18 am on Saturday, December 29, 2012
Ed. Isn't the correct English, close to 200 well paid professionals downtown, instead of
"closed to"
RS