Program Manager:  Tom Heaphey

The Columbus Downtown Office Incentive Program was designed to help stabilize and strengthen the market of Downtown office space as well as increase employment opportunities in Downtown Columbus by requiring the establishment of new jobs.

You may be eligible to receive an Office Incentive if you plan to relocate your company from outside Columbus city limits to Downtown Columbus and will employ ten or more people.  Also, if your company is presently located within Columbus city limits and/or Downtown, you may also be eligible to receive an Office Incentive if you hire ten or more new employees and those employees are located Downtown.

These minimum requirements must be met in order to apply for the Office Incentive Program:

• Minimum net job creation of ten (10) new employees
• Jobs must locate from outside Columbus city limits
• Downtown office space only (For the purpose of this program the boundaries of downtown are defined in Columbus City Code Title 33 Section 3359.03 downtown district boundary.)
• Private sector employers only
• Must make application prior to signing a lease or purchasing a building.  The signed lease or deed must be presented to the Downtown Development Office before the incentive can be awarded
• The term of the incentive will be two years less than the new lease for a maximum of five years, or five years for owner occupied property.  The same term applies to new prospects and existing companies which are expanding if additional office space is leased or purchased.
• Contact Tom Heaphey of the Downtown Development Office at 614-645-7067 for additional information or a Columbus Downtown Office Incentive application.