Xenia, Ohio

with Kettering Health. Clark State shares the educational space with Central State University, which also operates an extension office at the Center. The Greater Dayton YMCA is the REACH Center managing partner and oversees operations at the facility. Ground on the REACH Center was broken in March, 2018 and opened in January, 2019. The YMCA served about 1,400 families in its old facility, and within the first three months of opening increased that number to more than 4,300. “These participants not only save money, in that we have a shared facility instead of four or five different facilities, but because of the cross-pollination and the work that they can do together, it makes it a lot easier for them to offer more services to their clients in one location,” Brodsky said. For example, the YMCA provides child-watch services to the college partners, eliminating a common barrier for adult learners. “And it’s interesting how development begets development,” he adds. “Around the same time that we started facilitating and coalescing around this REACH project, we were contacted by a hotel operator, and we have a new hotel that has opened across the street from the REACH Center - a 99- room Hampton Inn. Because of that, and combined with REACH, we had someone who purchased property around the hotel and has done additional retail. So, we have two 10,000-sq.-ft. retail centers, and there’s another ten to twelve acres that can be developed and they’re looking at ways to develop that, as well. “A lot of this also happened because of investment by the city to improve infrastructure, in particular, the ingress and egress into that retail area; there was a bottleneck there and we were able to leverage some state funding to make improvements. And because of all of that – the infrastructure improvements and some of the other public investment – we’re seeing a lot of private investment at the same time. Ground has also broken on a new Greene County Career Center to be located within the City. In addition to traditional vocational training programs, the new center will focus on aerospace