May 9, 2025 • 11 mins
Mark Somerson of Columbus Morning News has a look at local business news an unexpected industry to bring 1,200 jigh-paying jobs to Central Ohio.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's about seven minutes after eight. I hope you're doing
(00:02):
well on this Friday morning. It's Mike Elliott Columbus's morning News.
How about the Who going back on tour one final time.
I'd be curious to see what that tour looks like.
If their stop epic, they have to have an Ohio stop.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
The tour might be. The concert might be earlier in
the day that guys can get some sleep.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
That's fine by me. If you had a six o'clock
start for the Who, I would love that well.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I was thinking early bird dinner. I was thinking maybe
like a four o'clock concert.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Fine, fine, and then it's wrapped up and done by
like nine, nine thirty.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah, legendary. Perfect, it'd be legendary.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
That won't be the case for the Metallica concert tonight. Yeah,
at Old Crew Stadium. The Sonic Temple event is happening.
So if you are, if you're going, have fun, it's
going to be a beautiful weekend for that. If you're not,
and you're on seventy one this afternoon, heads up, traffic
will be a little dicey on seventy one right around
the fairgrounds. Those exits there Hudson and seventeen as people
(01:01):
get packed into the historic Crew Stadium to see the
Sonic Temple formerly known as Rock on the Range. I
still call it Rock on the Range, but metallic as
your headliner tonight and Sunday.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
By the way, everybody is going to be talking louder
on Monday levels they'll be going. So I went to
Sonic Temple, Okay, I'm right here.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Well, it's funny. They played. They played at Virginia Tech's
Lane Stadium in Blacksburg, Virginia on Wednesday, and they played
so loud and the fans were jumping around and cheering
and singing along so loud it actually registered as a
seismic event at the Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory. They actually
(01:42):
saw the ground tremors and that's the song that did it.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Oh yeah, Well, Virginia Tech's football team comes out of
the tunnel before the game to this.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
So they played this and people went nuts, and they
actually saw it register on the Richter scale. It was low.
There's no damage or anything, but they saw it on
the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone line from Columbus
Business First Managing editor Mark Summerson are you going to
Metallica tonight?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Oh god, no, Well maybe I.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Have that song on my playlist and that's it. But
I did see The Who in nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I've seen The Who a couple of times as well,
and it's been a fantastic show every time.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Oh yeah, I thought they were old in nineteen eighty one,
but I was much younger at the time. I was
like sixteen years old and thought, who are these old guys?
That is like forty some years ago.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
It's incredible. I've seen them as well in a number
of different venues and they still have it. And now
that we're older, you're looking and you're like, hey, I
can kind of relate to this old guy on.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Stage now I feel his knees.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Well, if you're not going to Metallica tonight, maybe you
can take missus Summerson on Sunday for Mother's Day. That
would be a nice present.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Yeah, she would love that. Actually hear it.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
From our backyard, can you really?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Oh yeah, you should be able to as well. It's
loud enough when the wind is carrying, you'll hear it.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
So the we get some really good stories this week.
Mark Summerson from Columbus business First dot com. Roosters on
all on Tangy River Road is going to reopen after
the fire last year. That's great news and hopefully it's
just in time for football season too.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Yeah, it closed last July. It's been a long time.
Fires can really hurt restaurants, as we've seen with Harvest
in Clintonville and other spots around. Roosters was temporarily shut down.
Things slowed, there was some construction progress and permitting and
all that. But they now say it'll be opened again
by this fall. Not sure exactly when. The restaurant posted
(03:46):
on Facebook, We're thrilled to welcome you back to our
newly remodeled store. Roosters is really popular and this one
on ol in Tangi is always packed. It's one of
those places you just want to stop by after work
or go in for a quick lunch were of course
later at night to watch football or what have you.
So yeah, they started their first This one is one
(04:07):
of their oldest in the thirty seven year old chain
and opened in two thousand when they just had four
other restaurants. Now there are forty three locations in four states,
including fifteen in the Columbus market. But yeah, this is
one of the oldest ones. It's just been a shame
that it's been closed. But yeah, right, hopefully in time
for football seam and you'll see people back in roosters
(04:27):
enjoying their wings and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
So a quick funny story about that roosters and the fire.
It was July third of last year and my wife
was out, she was working. She was actually at Red
White and Boom, she's in marketing and events. So I
told my boys, like, you know what, I don't want
to cook because that night it was kind of a drizzly,
rainy evening, and I'm like, let's just order. Let's just
order wings. So I call Roosters like five point forty
(04:52):
five six o'clock. I placed my order for pickup. I
always like to go pick it up, and they, okay,
you know, it'll be twenty minutes or so. So in
the time that I made my phone call to order
the wings, and then I went and picked it up,
and I see fire trucks and smoke coming out of
the roof. So it's quite feasible. Mark Summerson that my
(05:13):
order was the one that caused the fire, because I
roll up and there's fire trucks everywhere, and I.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Get the extra hot one.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I Well, that's the thing is, I didn't get my wings.
You know, I was stuck without a dinner at that point.
But glad to see that it's going to reopen here
this fall. It's a great location and they've got some
of the best wings in Columbus, There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
This, you know, we hear a lot about in Columbus
and Central Ohio about chip manufacturers and data centers, and
that's sort of, you know, sucked all the oxygens out
of the room when it comes to industries coming to
this area. You don't hear a lot about biotech coming
to Central Ohio, but that's about to change.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Yeah. Now, five years ago there were little or no
biotech anything in Columbus. Now four companies on their own
have twelve hundred high paying jobs, and they say there
are hundreds more on the way. We're talking about OSU spinoffs,
len Tech, We're talking about Amgen that has just announced
a soon to be one point four billion dollar campus
(06:17):
for global pharmaceutical maker Amgen. They were also just at
Columbus Metropolitan Club over this week talking about how much
growth they're getting and why this is such an interesting
industry for Central Ohio. Meanwhile, there's nationwide Children's has its
off spins and together they're creating these high paying jobs.
(06:38):
They're building all over the place, They're adding to existing properties,
and they're really building out. And this is something that's
good news for young students who think maybe biotech will
be something I want to go into. I'll go into
studying all sorts of stuff. But hey, look at all
these jobs. So yeah, this is one of those Columbus
(07:00):
success stories. Not only are we seeing more warehouses, of course,
we're seeing more data centers. We're seeing these big people
and on building more and of course Intel when that
starts to go online. This Central Ohio is starting to
really get a diverse portfolio of all sorts of high jaw,
high end jobs and interesting industries that you know, a
(07:24):
decade or two ago, nobody would have ever thought this
was coming to Columbus in really interesting industries.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
So biochech is like gene therapies and like sell therapies
and that kind of thing. So it's all medical adjacent.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Right, yes, And it's just super cool because those kind
of people who went to school let's say at Ohio
State or up in Cleveland. When they finished school and
we're looking for some sort of biotech jobs, they didn't
think central Ohio. They thought, Okay, i'm gonna have to
go to California. I'm gonna have to go to the
East coast. Now there are more jobs opening up here,
(07:59):
and I think you're just going to see this continuing
in the future with other companies saying hey, look at this.
And then of course OSU keeps pushing for the spinoffs,
these of why children's hospitals doing all sorts of really
cool research, and those things will create gene therapies, they'll
create new tech, and they'll create hopefully more jobs in
(08:20):
Central Ohio and more startups coming here, saying this is
a really good place for this sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Mark Summerson, Columbus Business First, Take a moment, give them
a look there, and maybe treat yourself to a subscription
Columbus Business First dot Com. A story we've been kind
of mentioning on and off throughout the week, and one
that is very interesting to me because my son plays
youth hockey and that triple A Columbus Bluejackets. It's a
youth Hockey Organization. They're proposing a new ice rink, a
(08:48):
new ice arena in Delaware County. I think three sheets
of ice inside and one sheet of ice in the
winter only of course outside, and then the outside would
also be a performing amphitheater for concerts and events. This
is a really cool idea.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Yeah, this was kind of a surprise to us. But
does everybody in the hockey world knows there's not enough
rinks in central Ohio Once the It's always been sort
of that, and hockey has been picking up over the years.
Once the Blue Jackets moved in, however, people really started
to think, we're gonna need more ice in this town. So, yeah,
this proposal by the Triple A Blue Jackets, it's one
(09:26):
hundred and twenty seven thousand square foot structure, as you said,
with three indoor rinks, a performance venue that will serve
as an outdoor hockey rink in winter months. And they're
really excited about this. I'm sure the youth hockey world
is very excited about this too. The project sites on
thirteen point four or five acres is over on the
corner of Sawmill Parkway in Route forty two right now.
(09:47):
It's vacant farmland which is up in that area. There's
a lot of that, but you're gonna start to see
this farmland disappear as more commercial projects like this start up.
And yeah, I think this is only the start of
something really cool. We'll see what Delaware ends up doing
with all of this, and we'll see how the progress is.
But you can go on our website and take a
look at some of the images of renderings of what
(10:09):
this place is going to look like. It is huge,
and it's actually kind of a neat design too. It's
a little more modern than you would see at most
ice skating venues, and it could be a really cool
addition to central Ohio. And I think the youth hockey
world can be very excited about it.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I think as it sits right now, there's only maybe
nine or ten sheets of ice in central Ohio, and
with the way that youth hockey is exploding, it's just
it's up, we're upside down and the price of ice
is so expensive, which is prohibitive for a lot of
people to get into ice skating and into hockey. So
if you've got more rinks, I mean, it's just classic
(10:46):
supplying to Mandy, you've got two or three more rinks,
the price of ice comes down, more kids can get
into it and skate, and I think it's a win win.
There's no timeline or anything for this.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Is there not at this point. I think it still
has to go to approval and all of that stuff.
It's going to take a while to get going, but
you know, as these things do, and it depends on
how quick the permitting processes and everything going through, which
Delaware is really good about and has changed a lot
of their policies to make sure that zoning fits into this.
(11:17):
Already Delaware City Council proved a zoning ordinance establishing this
subdivision as a planned unit. Then they have to go
through more stuff, more proposals and back and forth. But yeah,
I think you'll see this in the next couple of
years if everything comes along.
It's about seven minutes after eight. I hope you're doing
(00:02):
well on this Friday morning. It's Mike Elliott Columbus's morning News.
How about the Who going back on tour one final time.
I'd be curious to see what that tour looks like.
If their stop epic, they have to have an Ohio stop.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
The tour might be. The concert might be earlier in
the day that guys can get some sleep.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
That's fine by me. If you had a six o'clock
start for the Who, I would love that well.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I was thinking early bird dinner. I was thinking maybe
like a four o'clock concert.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Fine, fine, and then it's wrapped up and done by
like nine, nine thirty.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Yeah, legendary. Perfect, it'd be legendary.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
That won't be the case for the Metallica concert tonight. Yeah,
at Old Crew Stadium. The Sonic Temple event is happening.
So if you are, if you're going, have fun, it's
going to be a beautiful weekend for that. If you're not,
and you're on seventy one this afternoon, heads up, traffic
will be a little dicey on seventy one right around
the fairgrounds. Those exits there Hudson and seventeen as people
(01:01):
get packed into the historic Crew Stadium to see the
Sonic Temple formerly known as Rock on the Range. I
still call it Rock on the Range, but metallic as
your headliner tonight and Sunday.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
By the way, everybody is going to be talking louder
on Monday levels they'll be going. So I went to
Sonic Temple, Okay, I'm right here.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Well, it's funny. They played. They played at Virginia Tech's
Lane Stadium in Blacksburg, Virginia on Wednesday, and they played
so loud and the fans were jumping around and cheering
and singing along so loud it actually registered as a
seismic event at the Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory. They actually
(01:42):
saw the ground tremors and that's the song that did it.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Oh yeah, Well, Virginia Tech's football team comes out of
the tunnel before the game to this.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
So they played this and people went nuts, and they
actually saw it register on the Richter scale. It was low.
There's no damage or anything, but they saw it on
the Legacy Retirement Group dot com phone line from Columbus
Business First Managing editor Mark Summerson are you going to
Metallica tonight?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Oh god, no, Well maybe I.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Have that song on my playlist and that's it. But
I did see The Who in nineteen eighty one.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
I've seen The Who a couple of times as well,
and it's been a fantastic show every time.
Speaker 4 (02:22):
Oh yeah, I thought they were old in nineteen eighty one,
but I was much younger at the time. I was
like sixteen years old and thought, who are these old guys?
That is like forty some years ago.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
It's incredible. I've seen them as well in a number
of different venues and they still have it. And now
that we're older, you're looking and you're like, hey, I
can kind of relate to this old guy on.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Stage now I feel his knees.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Well, if you're not going to Metallica tonight, maybe you
can take missus Summerson on Sunday for Mother's Day. That
would be a nice present.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
Yeah, she would love that. Actually hear it.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
From our backyard, can you really?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
Oh yeah, you should be able to as well. It's
loud enough when the wind is carrying, you'll hear it.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
So the we get some really good stories this week.
Mark Summerson from Columbus business First dot com. Roosters on
all on Tangy River Road is going to reopen after
the fire last year. That's great news and hopefully it's
just in time for football season too.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Yeah, it closed last July. It's been a long time.
Fires can really hurt restaurants, as we've seen with Harvest
in Clintonville and other spots around. Roosters was temporarily shut down.
Things slowed, there was some construction progress and permitting and
all that. But they now say it'll be opened again
by this fall. Not sure exactly when. The restaurant posted
(03:46):
on Facebook, We're thrilled to welcome you back to our
newly remodeled store. Roosters is really popular and this one
on ol in Tangi is always packed. It's one of
those places you just want to stop by after work
or go in for a quick lunch were of course
later at night to watch football or what have you.
So yeah, they started their first This one is one
(04:07):
of their oldest in the thirty seven year old chain
and opened in two thousand when they just had four
other restaurants. Now there are forty three locations in four states,
including fifteen in the Columbus market. But yeah, this is
one of the oldest ones. It's just been a shame
that it's been closed. But yeah, right, hopefully in time
for football seam and you'll see people back in roosters
(04:27):
enjoying their wings and whatnot.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
So a quick funny story about that roosters and the fire.
It was July third of last year and my wife
was out, she was working. She was actually at Red
White and Boom, she's in marketing and events. So I
told my boys, like, you know what, I don't want
to cook because that night it was kind of a drizzly,
rainy evening, and I'm like, let's just order. Let's just
order wings. So I call Roosters like five point forty
(04:52):
five six o'clock. I placed my order for pickup. I
always like to go pick it up, and they, okay,
you know, it'll be twenty minutes or so. So in
the time that I made my phone call to order
the wings, and then I went and picked it up,
and I see fire trucks and smoke coming out of
the roof. So it's quite feasible. Mark Summerson that my
(05:13):
order was the one that caused the fire, because I
roll up and there's fire trucks everywhere, and I.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
Get the extra hot one.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
I Well, that's the thing is, I didn't get my wings.
You know, I was stuck without a dinner at that point.
But glad to see that it's going to reopen here
this fall. It's a great location and they've got some
of the best wings in Columbus, There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
This, you know, we hear a lot about in Columbus
and Central Ohio about chip manufacturers and data centers, and
that's sort of, you know, sucked all the oxygens out
of the room when it comes to industries coming to
this area. You don't hear a lot about biotech coming
to Central Ohio, but that's about to change.
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Yeah. Now, five years ago there were little or no
biotech anything in Columbus. Now four companies on their own
have twelve hundred high paying jobs, and they say there
are hundreds more on the way. We're talking about OSU spinoffs,
len Tech, We're talking about Amgen that has just announced
a soon to be one point four billion dollar campus
(06:17):
for global pharmaceutical maker Amgen. They were also just at
Columbus Metropolitan Club over this week talking about how much
growth they're getting and why this is such an interesting
industry for Central Ohio. Meanwhile, there's nationwide Children's has its
off spins and together they're creating these high paying jobs.
(06:38):
They're building all over the place, They're adding to existing properties,
and they're really building out. And this is something that's
good news for young students who think maybe biotech will
be something I want to go into. I'll go into
studying all sorts of stuff. But hey, look at all
these jobs. So yeah, this is one of those Columbus
(07:00):
success stories. Not only are we seeing more warehouses, of course,
we're seeing more data centers. We're seeing these big people
and on building more and of course Intel when that
starts to go online. This Central Ohio is starting to
really get a diverse portfolio of all sorts of high jaw,
high end jobs and interesting industries that you know, a
(07:24):
decade or two ago, nobody would have ever thought this
was coming to Columbus in really interesting industries.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
So biochech is like gene therapies and like sell therapies
and that kind of thing. So it's all medical adjacent.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Right, yes, And it's just super cool because those kind
of people who went to school let's say at Ohio
State or up in Cleveland. When they finished school and
we're looking for some sort of biotech jobs, they didn't
think central Ohio. They thought, Okay, i'm gonna have to
go to California. I'm gonna have to go to the
East coast. Now there are more jobs opening up here,
(07:59):
and I think you're just going to see this continuing
in the future with other companies saying hey, look at this.
And then of course OSU keeps pushing for the spinoffs,
these of why children's hospitals doing all sorts of really
cool research, and those things will create gene therapies, they'll
create new tech, and they'll create hopefully more jobs in
(08:20):
Central Ohio and more startups coming here, saying this is
a really good place for this sort of thing.
Speaker 1 (08:25):
Mark Summerson, Columbus Business First, Take a moment, give them
a look there, and maybe treat yourself to a subscription
Columbus Business First dot Com. A story we've been kind
of mentioning on and off throughout the week, and one
that is very interesting to me because my son plays
youth hockey and that triple A Columbus Bluejackets. It's a
youth Hockey Organization. They're proposing a new ice rink, a
(08:48):
new ice arena in Delaware County. I think three sheets
of ice inside and one sheet of ice in the
winter only of course outside, and then the outside would
also be a performing amphitheater for concerts and events. This
is a really cool idea.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Yeah, this was kind of a surprise to us. But
does everybody in the hockey world knows there's not enough
rinks in central Ohio Once the It's always been sort
of that, and hockey has been picking up over the years.
Once the Blue Jackets moved in, however, people really started
to think, we're gonna need more ice in this town. So, yeah,
this proposal by the Triple A Blue Jackets, it's one
(09:26):
hundred and twenty seven thousand square foot structure, as you said,
with three indoor rinks, a performance venue that will serve
as an outdoor hockey rink in winter months. And they're
really excited about this. I'm sure the youth hockey world
is very excited about this too. The project sites on
thirteen point four or five acres is over on the
corner of Sawmill Parkway in Route forty two right now.
(09:47):
It's vacant farmland which is up in that area. There's
a lot of that, but you're gonna start to see
this farmland disappear as more commercial projects like this start up.
And yeah, I think this is only the start of
something really cool. We'll see what Delaware ends up doing
with all of this, and we'll see how the progress is.
But you can go on our website and take a
look at some of the images of renderings of what
(10:09):
this place is going to look like. It is huge,
and it's actually kind of a neat design too. It's
a little more modern than you would see at most
ice skating venues, and it could be a really cool
addition to central Ohio. And I think the youth hockey
world can be very excited about it.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:26):
I think as it sits right now, there's only maybe
nine or ten sheets of ice in central Ohio, and
with the way that youth hockey is exploding, it's just
it's up, we're upside down and the price of ice
is so expensive, which is prohibitive for a lot of
people to get into ice skating and into hockey. So
if you've got more rinks, I mean, it's just classic
(10:46):
supplying to Mandy, you've got two or three more rinks,
the price of ice comes down, more kids can get
into it and skate, and I think it's a win win.
There's no timeline or anything for this.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Is there not at this point. I think it still
has to go to approval and all of that stuff.
It's going to take a while to get going, but
you know, as these things do, and it depends on
how quick the permitting processes and everything going through, which
Delaware is really good about and has changed a lot
of their policies to make sure that zoning fits into this.
(11:17):
Already Delaware City Council proved a zoning ordinance establishing this
subdivision as a planned unit. Then they have to go
through more stuff, more proposals and back and forth. But yeah,
I think you'll see this in the next couple of
years if everything comes along.
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