Fairfield
• Panera started moving dirt in early March for a new standalone restaurant expected to open at 5875 Dixie Highway in August.
Liberty Twp.
• Trustees this month approved rezoning for Liberty Flats, a 356-unit upscale apartment complex that will start construction on 22 acres adjacent to Liberty Center in early spring 2021. The proposed complex, which includes 24 three-story buildings, each between 22,680 and 160,608 square feet each, should be completed by 2023. Each building has eight to 20 units, according to plans submitted to Liberty Twp.
• A long-awaited 124,000-square-foot Kroger Marketplace at Kyles Station Road and Ohio 4 is continuing construction. The new store will include a fuel center and serve as the anchor for the 56-acre Kyles Station development. When it opens, the new Kroger will replace a 57,000-square-foot storefront that Kroger started leasing at 5420 Liberty-Fairfield Road in 1998.
Hamilton
• Salvagnini America is expanding its current location at Symmes Road and the Ohio 4 Bypass
• Construction continues at what is set to become North America’s largest indoor sports complex, Spooky Nook Sports Champion Mill
• Origin Venture, a paper company providing recycling, papermaking, and corrugated packaging manufacturing, recently was approved for state Job Creation Tax Credits and will choose a site in the city for its operations, which will create at least 64 full-time positions and generate $4.7 million in new annual payroll.
Middletown
• A newly constructed 2,400-square-foot Chipotle at Towne Boulevard and Pendleton Circle is scheduled to open July 15.
• Construction should start later this year Dairy Queen Grill & Chill next to the White Castle at 4780 Roosevelt Blvd.
Oxford
• Kettering Oxford Health Center, a one-story medical office building 5095 University Park Blvd., is planned. A permit application was submitted, but approval is still pending, Greene said.
West Chester
• AstraZeneca, a drug company, is retrofitting its manufacturing facility this month to help develop a COVID-19 vaccine.
• Republic Wire is moving forward with a planned expansion just north of the Trade Center property on Ohio 747
• Kemba Credit Union’s new headquarters is under construction just off Union Centre Boulevard, an investment that increased from $8 million to $28 million this year when the company boosted the size of the building to 147,000 square feet.
• Mill Creek Logistics Center I and Mill Creek Logistics Center II, two industrial buildings on Jacquemin Drive just off Union Centre Boulevard, were completed at the end of May.
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