Encourage new business investment. Job requires attendance at various early morning and evening meetings and functions. Some weekend work is also required. OR Bachelor's Degree plus two years experience. Inc. The successful candidate will have the following qualifications.
Salary commensurate with experince.
Staff consists of Executive Director and one part-time secretary assistant. The City of Columbus is seeking a creative and experienced downtown development professional to serve as Director of its Downtown Development Office. The Office is responsible for providing a strategic focus on residential and office development, facilitate City's development process with the private sector, marketing the City's downtown development incentives to encourage new development, and staffing of the Downtown Commission, which controls zoning and development approvals for downtown development. The Director will also coordinate activities, which will result from a downtown action plan now being developed by Cooper-Robertson. Columbus is the largest city in the State of Ohio, and is experiencing major new investment in downtown.