Doing Business with Springfield

The Right Place. The Right Time. Center City Focus

• Central location with 50,000 vehicles passing through daily
• Nearly 300 businesses in operation
• More than 4,200 employees working downtown
• Lower costs than shopping centers
• Distinctive spaces enhance personality and commercial appeal
• Permanence not found in new construction or outlying areas
• Business incentives, training and perks geared to Center City

Strength in Numbers

A cross-section of the Center City reveals very attractive demographics, with more than 300 businesses, institutions, and government entities.

• The city’s civic buildings bring more than 550 employees to the Center City daily. Firmly established in the middle to upper-middle class, they serve as a reliable base.
• The core of the city’s professionals – lawyers, bankers, accountants and others – also operate downtown. This provides you with access to the most upscale (and most difficult to reach) high-end demographic in the area.
• The more than 5,500 students, faculty, and staff at Clark State Community College, located in the Center City, and Wittenberg University located just to the north, compromise a readily accessible and highly coveted consumer group.
• The 700 existing households (and growing) in the Center City represent a broad spectrum of retail opportunities and a steadily increasing demand for those opportunities. Also, additional housing development is a major focus of the Center City Association.

Visitors to the arts and cultural attractions in Center City create a developing and lucrative market. Below is just a small sample:

• Summer Arts Festival: 50,000 people per summer
• Clark State Performing Arts Center 88 – 90,000 people per year
• Heritage Center of Clark County 26,000 people per year
• Clark County Public Library 12,520 people per year

Central Convenience

Every day more than 50,000 vehicles pass through the Center City on the city’s main arteries: Limestone St. (Route 72), Route 40, Route 41, and Route 4. This makes the Center City literally the hub of activity in the area. These same travel routes will also provide easy access for tens of thousands of customers as the area grows. With these numbers, the convenient central location makes the Center City a logical and natural decision.

Capable Employees Available

What makes the Center City a great place for you and your customers also makes it a great place for your employees. Easily accessible by car, public transportation, bike or foot, transportation is virtually a non-issue for the labor force of 70,000 in the Springfield/Clark-County area. The Dayton area adds 410,000 individuals to that number, just minutes away. Immediate proximity to Clark State Community College and Wittenberg University, with eight other higher education institutions with 25 miles provides you with access to approximately 39,400 bright and motivated individuals that can help your business thrive.