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ADVERTISING DIRECTOR Our wooded preserves, scenic vistas, Rheta Gallagher timeless Georgian architecture and EDITORIAL classic white horse fencing are physical SPECIAL SECTIONS EDITOR reminders that we live in an inspiring Emma Frankart Henterly COLUMBUS MONTHLY EDITOR place. Nearly every home is within Eric Lyttle walking distance of a park as a result of CONTRIBUTORS New Albany more than 1,800 acres devoted to parks Jackie Mantey, Brooke Preston, Taylor Swope, Peter Tonguette or greenspace. More than 36 miles of trails connect our neighborhoods to our DESIGN & PRODUCTION Village Center, the core of our town and PRODUCTION/ DESIGN DIRECTOR Craig Rusnak home to our 200-acre school learning Mayor Sloan Spalding, far right, and his family ART DIRECTOR campus, library, Jeanne B. McCoy Community give back in ways that have a far-reaching Alyse Kordenbrock ASSOCIATE ART DIRECTOR is wired! Center for the Arts and Philip Heit Center for impact. You will read about a number of them Healthy New Albany. This thriving area includes throughout this special section. Betsy Becker housing, restaurants, coffee houses, offices, retail If you’d like to get to know New Albany a DIGITAL services and our Rose Run corridor. Construction little better, summer and autumn are wonder- EDITOR has also begun in the Village Center on high-end ful times to visit. I encourage you to attend the Erin Edwards If you want to see the And built around a vibrant ASSISTANT DIGITAL EDITOR apartments for empty nesters looking to downsize New Albany Chamber’s Taste of New Albany in Maya Jenkins region’s most technologically village center. and millennials who want to be within close walk- Market Square (July 30); come to the Peloto- advanced business park, you ing distance to so much activity. nia finish line at the Heit Center (Aug. 5-6); PHOTOGRAPHY should schedule a site visit in What’s not easy to see is the PHOTO EDITOR Another sector of New Albany that continues to participate in the A&F Challenge on Abercrom- Tim Johnson New Albany. real beauty of the business blossom is the 4,000-acre New Albany Interna- bie’s campus (Sept. 8); walk through beautiful ASSOCIATE PHOTO EDITOR park. Its technological tional Business Park, the largest master planned New Albany neighborhoods as part of the New Rob Hardin Getting there will be easy. After infrastructure. New Albany office park in Ohio. From entrepreneurs in our Albany Walking Classic, the largest walk in the ADVERTISING all, the business park is located Net. Not only is it one of the incubator to Fortune 500 headquarters, every United States (Sept. 17); or enjoy all the activi- SENIOR ACCOUNT EXECUTIVE along seven miles of freeway. most robust and affordable company in our business park enjoys access to a ties of The New Albany Classic Invitational Holly Gallucci Three highway interchanges. fiber optic networks in the ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES And access to State Route 161 nation, it also provides access 96-strand dark fiber optic network and 200 carri- Grand Prix & Family Day, the premier special Michelle Crossman, Jackie Vosler ers, triple feed electric capabilities, commuter bus equestrian event in North America (Sept. 24). SALES ASSISTANT and Interstate 270. to more than 200 carriers. service and a bus shuttle. Domestic and interna- You’ll be glad you did. Sara Barton Tremendous bandwidth. And tional companies alike have invested more than Along the way, you’ll see other aspects of New the connectivity of a Tier 1 telecom provider. MARKETING $2 billion in our business park, where more than MARKETING MANAGER Albany that make it an ideal place to locate 15,000 employees work. Lauren Reinhard a business. Like a remarkable school campus And the power is always on. Thanks to dual One commonly overlooked factor about that reflects the community’s commitment to electric feeds throughout the business park. In ADMINISTRATION New Albany—and what I believe to be the true education. You’ll also see some of the country’s the business world, it’s called redundant power. BUSINESS MANAGER reason for our success—is our friendly and Zackary Cramp most beautiful neighborhoods. All master-planned. Here, we call it a given. welcoming nature. People here know their Sloan Spalding INTERNS neighbors, and many are ambassadors who Mayor Abbey Anspach, Haleigh Contino, Giulia Heyward, Johana Longova, If you’re looking for third party endorsements, look at this list of companies Elaina Wilson that recently located in New Albany from out of state: EDITORIAL/ADVERTISING OFFICES INSIDE 62 E. Broad St. Alene Candles Amazon Amcor Aromair Fine Fragrances Axium Plastics Bocchi Laboratories P.O. Box 1289 Columbus, OH 43216 KDC PC Mall/Sarcom Pharmaforce Reike Packaging TJX Vee Pak 614-888-4567 Y 8 20 28 38 48 New Albany: A Columbus Monthly AN FEATURE RESIDENTS LIFESTYLES EDUCATION BUSINESS Suburban Section is published by How New Albany’s Desirable The community Robust public and Driving innovation GateHouse Media, LLC. 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Weaver Custom Homes 614-314-7009 Liveinnewalbany.com Mark Neff Team 614-939-8929 614-939-8929 SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION FEATURE THE 20-YEAR TRANSFORMATION New Albany’s Master Plan helps the community fl ourish and look forward. BY JACKIE MANTEY n 1998, a potential New Albany International Business Park tenant—known then as Project X—visited for a grand tour of New Albany’s bells and whistles. But New Albany didn’t have many bells and whistles Iback then, at least not compared to those it boasts today, which have helped it earn national recognition as the best sub- urb in the U.S. according to Business Insider and whose devel- A resident strolls with opment path is studied in lecture halls across the country. her dogs along one of What it did have, though, was a new school campus. New Albany’s ubiquitous walking paths. PHOTO: PETER AARON PHOTO: August 2017 A COLUMBUS MONTHLY SUBURBAN SECTION 9 8 A COLUMBUS MONTHLY SUBURBAN SECTION August 2017 SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION Discover Financial Services’ regional operation center Developer Jack Kessler, chairman of The New Albany Company The team of site selectors, Project X repre- New Albany drew Discover Financial away sentatives, the mayor and the school district’s from the two bigger-name locations under superintendent made a stop there first. consideration, beating out Salt Lake City’s As they overlooked the buildings that national appeal and Phoenix’s summer-all-the- would educate the entire community—and time climate. soon become one of the best districts in the But it was more than a clever pitch that state—the superintendent delivered this line: attracted the company. New Albany had been “A year ago, this site was a cornfield.” working from a groundbreaking Master Plan for This would come in handy later in the trip, a decade. It was the Master Plan that outlined when the group viewed the undeveloped site how to build before any International Busi- that planners had envisioned for the sprawling ness Park investors signed on—a decision that office park. today’s city manager, Joe Stefanov, calls “criti- To make it a reality, New Albany needed cal to making us the community we are today.” to build around $16 million worth of infra- Nearly two decades after the International structure for tenants that did not yet exist. Business Park became a reality, it’s clear that Our lucky break City Council and local community leaders the Master Plan roots extended even deeper knew the risk would be worth the reward than the corn, to a seed developer Jack Kes- was when Les Wexner and secured the funds needed to begin the sler planted in his friend Les Wexner’s head.