Home Depot & Monroe
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Printed Date: Nov 18 2025 at 8:42pm
Topic: Home Depot & Monroe
Posted By: Hermes
Subject: Home Depot & Monroe
Date Posted: Jun 06 2009 at 10:24am
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Monroe does it again !! Monroe just got the Home Depot distribution center set to open I assume some time next year. I don't know how many will be employed there. Monroe is just booming ! Take a good look Middeltown council because you'll never know or enjoy that kind of progress. Instead of going to Las Vegas council members you just need to drive down the road and learn something. ------------- No more democrats no more republicans,vote Constitution Party !! |
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Posted By: Vivian Moon
Date Posted: Jun 06 2009 at 10:33am
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Hermes AMEN to that statement! |
Posted By: John Beagle
Date Posted: Jun 06 2009 at 2:18pm
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THE HOME DEPOT SEEKS TO HIRE 200 FOR NEW DISTRIBUTION CENTER IN CINCINNATI Company Currently Hiring Full Time Warehouse and Office Positions The Home Depot is creating more than 200 jobs with the opening of a new distribution center on Gateway Blvd. in Monroe this summer. The world’s largest home improvement retailer is hiring full-time positions for the center, which will help to improve service and increase efficiency at its retail locations throughout the Ohio Valley. General warehouse and office positions are available. The Home Depot offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical and dental insurance, 401k, and Success Sharing bonuses for full- and part-time associates. Associates at The Home Depot build their careers, share the values of The Home Depot and volunteer to build their communities. http://www.mainstreetmonroe.com/view_news.asp?nId=4385 - http://www.mainstreetmonroe.com/view_news.asp?nId=4385------------- http://www.johnbeagle.com/" rel="nofollow - John Beagle Middletown USA News of, for and by the people of Middletown, Ohio. |
Posted By: VietVet
Date Posted: Jun 06 2009 at 4:28pm
Soooo- given this information on another job opportunity event for Monroe, what is our new Econ. Devel. Director doing to entice jobs to Middletown? What is the game plan from the new Director? Has anyone heard from this guy? So far, he has done what former Director Murphy has----- a----- NOTHING. Between the two of them, we, in MUddletown are batting .000 in the new jobs category. Why can other cities hire people that will actually do something they were hired for and we, (in MUddletown) can't seem to find anyone who knows how to accomplish a darn thing? Can't be the money as this city pays some fairly high salaries to do lackluster work. Whoever is doing the hiring can't evaluate talent very well. Oh well, another failed opportunity for this city. Typical.  
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Posted By: Pacman
Date Posted: Jun 06 2009 at 6:05pm
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Vet you got somewhere desirable in Middletown to plop down a facility of this size: "The $33 million center facility is expected to be finished by the end of 2008 and will employ more than 200 people. The 657,000 square foot center is being built on a 70-acre site." |
Posted By: VietVet
Date Posted: Jun 06 2009 at 6:26pm
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Pac-Doesn't have to be a 70 acre site. Something- anything smaller would be an improvement, wouldn't it? I, for one, am tired of all the years going by and we have gotten every excuse under the sun why Middletown can't attract new jobs. " we have untreated brown field sites that are awaiting cleanup", " we don't have enough available land to develop along the I-75 corridor", "we aren't very business friendly in this town", "we don't have the right econ. devel. director in place that is as aggressive as those in other towns", "we just aren't set up to be attractive enough to bring in these new jobs that other towns are acquiring", "our schools are poor and with poor schools, we can't attract companies because your citizens don't have the work skills to help our company", "we're a poor Section 8 community and we aren't attractive to a prosperous company"--- all have been used in the past with nothing changing since the 70's. For Chr--- sakes! DO SOMETHING TO ADDRESS THESE PROBLEMS THAT HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR 30 YEARS OR MORE! Why aren't the people responsible doing something to address these issues? What is the plan to attack these deficiencies? Somebody- Gilleland- Robinette- anybody.
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Posted By: Hermes
Date Posted: Jun 06 2009 at 9:49pm
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Well we are getting the COKE PLANT,and unless thing's have really changed in the coke business we will be blessed with the soft fragrance of ______ . In 90 degree heat Middeltown will smell so sweet and all the senior's will have bottled oxygen because they can't breath and while that goes on here Monroe & West Chester will be reaping the reward's. How sweet it is !!! ------------- No more democrats no more republicans,vote Constitution Party !! |
Posted By: Mike_Presta
Date Posted: Jun 06 2009 at 10:39pm
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Vet: You forgot the REAL excuse:
We don't want all those lower class truck driver jobs and nasty trucks that a distribution center would attract around middletown! We only want artists, doctors, opera singers, professors and other high-brow types that will throw "champaign and caviar" parties that the city hall folks and their friends deserve. ------------- “Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012 |
Posted By: VietVet
Date Posted: Jun 07 2009 at 8:25am
Mike- Do you mean to suggest that these  's want Middletown to be like the West Chester's , Mason's and the Springboro's of the area? Never has been and probably never will be. If doctor's, professors and other "cultured" high brow people are what they want to attract for the town, they're sure doing all they can to prevent that from happening, don't you think??? Kinda goes against their theme of making this town the Section 8/welfare/desolation capital of Ohio doesn't it? As to the truck drivers and all those trucks- we've had steel trucks running in and out of town for decades. You'd think that they would have gotten use to that by now. I also agree with the city leaders being deserving of the champaign and caviar parties- a - As long as the champaign is flat and the caviar was left in the sun all day, of course! 
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Posted By: Pacman
Date Posted: Jun 07 2009 at 9:20am
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Vet businesses such as Home Depot want distribution points that have easy access to I-75 and they want sites such as the one Home Depot bought. Room for expansion if needed. A Building the size of the Home Depot one is 1.5 times the size of Towne Mall roughly. Middletown has very little if any land that could accommodate a development of this size with easy access to I-75. Middletown's one option is to try and annex more land. You also have the fact that Middletown has made it's choice for what it wants along I-75 and it is not going to be Blue Collar Distribution jobs.
Brownfields take Millions of Dollars to cleanup and I don't know how Middletown could ever get the funds to cleanup the Brownfield Mess they have.
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