Central Ohio stands to gain 356 jobs from five companies that received state tax incentives this morning, including plans by a fast-growing mortgage company to add 150 jobs in the region.
Homeside Financial LLC opened in 2013.
Currently, it has 116 employees at locations in Downtown Columbus and Easton.
The project approved by the Ohio Tax Credit Authority calls for the company to consolidate the new employees and the existing workers at the two current offices into a new location in Central Ohio.
The new workers will sell and service mortgages. The 150 jobs have an annual payroll of $9.4 million.
Other projects that received approval today include:
- Health-care information technology company InXite Health Systems plans to create 100 jobs in Columbus with an annual payroll of $4.9 million. The company currently has eight employees here.
- Ohio Pack, a company that makes plastic firm for industrial applications, plans to open a plant in Heath that will have 55 workers with an annual payroll of $3.8 million.
- Keno Kozie Associates, an information-technology company with a focus on law firms, plans to create an operations centers in Columbus that will employ 36 workers with an annual payroll of $1 million.
- Nucor Steel Marion will retain 259 jobs and add 15 jobs as part of a renovation of the plant that makes rebar and sign posts for the highway industry.
