Business View Magazine | June 2019

327 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JUNE 2019 XENI A , OHIO our community like it is in most communities, and we had been working with some of our higher education partners to try to find ways to bring additional training opportunities to our city.” “What this resulted in is a city-facilitated effort to create a one-stop-shop,” he continues. “We also drew in Kettering Health Network, which is one of the two regional healthcare providers in the Dayton region; they were also looking at how they could provide greater access to healthcare. So, a little over a year ago, Kettering Health Network ended up purchasing a 35-acre parcel of land on the west side of Xenia, just off of U.S. Route 35, and they have partnered with the YMCA, with the senior center, and with Clark State Community College and Central State University to create the REACH Center.” While Kettering Health Network paid $3.4 million for land for the building, the city committed $1 million to the project to be used to build a gymnasium and other recreation or common use areas. “The city helped facilitate this; we were also a financial participant - we did provide funding for the project” notes Brodsky. “This was also the first project in our county that was able to take advantage of New Market Tax Credits – a federal program, with a state corollary, that provides tax credits to investors for projects in qualified areas that have seen some disinvestment in the past. Since we qualified for those, we were able to get quite a bit of tax credits and that was the first major cash infusion into this project.” In addition, Clark State Community College applied for $4 million in funding through the Dayton Development Coalition’s Priority Development and Advocacy Committee — a group of business, education, and government leaders who evaluate and rank development projects in the region, in order to cover the construction costs and the furnishings for the education space. Clark State now has about 13,500 square feet for classrooms, laboratories, and offices that will serve an estimated 1,800 students, offering degree and certificate programs, workforce training, non- credit courses and workshops, and soft-skills training. Many of the courses are related to in- demand medical fields as part of the partnership