Business View Magazine | November 2020

264 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2020 RT HAMPTON Plumbing and Heating, Inc. • Full Service Plumbing • Bathroom Remodeling • Water Heater Replacement • Full Service Heating and Cooling • Boilers Service and Repair • Hydronics / Boilers • Furnace Repair and Installation • Process Piping RT Hampton services all your residential and commercial needs. • A/C Repair and Installation • Commercial Maintenance • Industrial Maintenance • Fire Suppression • Process Piping • Refrigeration • Sewer Camera Inspection • Sewer Draining • Drain Cleaning • Back Flow Testing & Installation • Welding • Full Working FAB Shop www.rthampton.com 1225 Industrial Ave. S.W. Massillon, OH 44647 • Hours: 7am - 5pm Phone: (330) 809.6200 • Fax: (330) 809.6225 RT Hampton Plumbing and Heating, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer today’s small business environment. So the mayor wants to land bank— to buy these properties, acquire them, put them together, re-parcel them into something with a little bigger footprint that would attract today’s small businesses.” Under the new Mayor, North Canton aggressively pursued this opportunity. “We have bought a dozen properties in the first six months of the Mayor’s administration,” De Orio adds. “One such property is the former Kmart in North Canton and we’re also acquiring the other 27 acres of land surrounding the Kmart, so we now have a 30-acre parcel. The large plot is an ideal corporate campus, and the city is currently in talks with a financial technologies company. That’s very exciting to us.” Mayor Wilder, under whose leadership the program was initiated, sees the broader implications of the land bank venture. He explains, “What sums it all up is that we’re trying to maximize the economic impact and community benefit of new development opportunities. We’re trying to expand opportunities for recreation