COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Hundreds of jobs are coming to the Columbus area.
NBC 4 reported with the FAST FACTS Tuesday.
Aetna announced Tuesday it will hire at least 200 new employees for its New Albany facility on West Campus Drive.
Governor Ted Strickland Mark Barbash, Interim Director of the Ohio Department of Development, and local officials were on hand for the announcement.
The expansion was expected to bring approximately 210 to 250 new jobs in the community.
"We are committed to working with the business community to foster an economic climate in Ohio that encourages new opportunities and investments. Aetna’s announcement demonstrates that even in these challenging times, targeted investments are resulting in new, quality jobs right here in Central Ohio," Strickland said. "Our biennial budget calls for the expansion or creation of several job-creating tax credits, including a broadening of the Ohio Job Creation Tax Credit that is helping businesses like Aetna to grow in Ohio."
Aetna was awarded a job-creation tax credit in support of the company’s expansion in the Village of New Albany, part of a parcel of incentives offered by the state of Ohio and the Village of New Albany totaling as much as $3.5 million.
Aetna said it will hire for positions ranging from care-management nurses and health concierges to project managers and support staff.
The new positions will be posted over a several month period. Interested individuals were encouraged to visit Aetna’s Web site to see new jobs as they are posted: www.aetna.com/working.
As part of the company’s expansion project, Aetna will make use of existing space in its approximately 162,000-square-foot facility in New Albany to house the new employees.
The company expects improvements to the facility to begin next month and be completed in July.
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