When international shipping company DHL shuttered its Wilmington freight hub, cutting 8,000 jobs in a city of 42,000 residents, the area garnered international attention with some of the most painful economic stories of the Great Recession. After several years of hard work, the city and its remaining employers are starting to see signs of rebirth, Dayton Daily News reports. Airborne Maintenance and Engineering Services (AMES), for example, plans to hire 259 new employees and to build a $15 million repair hangar on DHL’s former site, now owned by the Clinton County Port Authority. Also, the Ohio Tax Credit Authority recently awarded tax credits to three other projects in the city. The loss of DHL in 2009 – and of the Clinton County Air Force Base in 1972 – has created a "a wider interest today in securing 'diversity'" in the employment base, the article said.
Wilmington works to rebuild and diversify its job base
