The company must also add at least 340 new jobs within the next five years. The average salary for Alternate Solutions Health Network employees is expected to be $54,000, generating an annual payroll of $27 million, Kettering officials said last month.
The company— founded in 1999 by Kettering residents David and Tessie Ganzsarto — will relocate from 1251 E. Dorothy Lane to the Kettering Business Park.
Alternate Solutions Health Network describes itself as a national leader in post-acute strategic partnerships. The business collaborates with health systems to build a continuum of care that focuses on independence and quality of life at home. Services include skilled nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, social workers and home health aides.
“They are getting contracts and partnerships that are just causing them to really ramp up their employment,” Gorsuch said.
The business currently has nearly 1,000 employees, 160 of which work at the Alternate Solutions’ current Kettering facility, according to CEO David Ganzsarto.
“I went to the city of Kettering, and I talked to them about our space needs. And I sort of said, ‘I’ll give you first crack at helping to accommodate that,’” David Ganzsarto said.
The city has been trying to sell the building since 2013, a year after the federal government vacated the space, according to Gorsuch.
“The biggest challenge with this building is it was a 200,000 square foot building on two stories. So it’s 100,000 square feet per floor and with the parking situation, it really didn’t lend itself to dividing the building up and having multiple companies move in,”Gorsuch said.
The building sits on the former Gentile Air Force Station, which the city took over in 1996 and renamed Kettering Business Park.
“We are landlocked so we’re redeveloping our commercial properties consistently, constantly, as we try to make the city attractive for the expansion of our existing businesses as well as attractive for new businesses coming from outside the region,” Kettering City Manager Mark Schwieterman said.
Kettering Business Park also is home to Synchrony Financial, which employs more than 1,500 people at its location.
“The National Composite Center Building is a 200,000 square foot building that has tenants in the building,” Schwieterman added. “Building number 2 is another 200,000 square foot building that the city owns and currently has limited utilization, so that building is available for use.”
PriMed Physicians recently bought land and built a new facility on the north end of the park.
“We’re really starting to get some traction and some synergy going out there,” Gorsuch added.
Kettering Municipal Court and Kettering Fire headquarters are located in Kettering Business Park. The fire department is expected to move from the park to its new headquarters on Hempstead Station Drive when construction on the new station and headquarters ends in summer 2016.
“It’s actually one of the core values of our organization: to support the communities in which we work and live,” Ganzsarto said of the company’s planned expansion.
Dayton Development Coalition, which seeks to retain and attract businesses, worked with JobsOhio, a private, nonprofit economic development corporation, to provide Alternate Solutions Health Network a $285,000 revitalization grant. The grant will be used to assist with asbestos remediation in the new facility.
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