Best Cities: Top 10 Jobs in West Chester OH - To Mars in 2035

West Chester Township rates among the Top 50 of CNNMoney's100 Best Cities for 2010 for several reasons, some of the most important being its quick expansion in recent years and the number of large employers located in town. It is also a historical city with links to WWII, the Cold War, and 21st Century space exploration possibilities; but offers a growing arts and culture center as well. Combined with other local communities and extending all the way to Cincinnati and Dayton on either side, West Chester in in the middle of the Ohio Space Corridor, now an official development region of the state and receiving grant funding for the future. This is exciting, because people livig here can almost "touch outer space."

The community located only 2 miles east of Hamilton, Ohio and approximately 15 miles northwest of Downtown Cincinnati, near the Sharonville suburb. During August 2010, 24,000 jobs were listed online in the West Chester area, within 25 miles of the township center, most located in Cincinnati, Mason, Olde West Chester to the east, and Hamilton.

Population growth in West Chester from 2000 to 2010 has far exceeded the construction of local residences and businesses, reaching 60,000 people and 100s of commercial concerns. Construction is forecast it add jobs to accommodate this lag. In addition, 52,000 people work in West Chester Township during the work week, keeping it busy and productive during continued growth.

Ohio's Space Corridor develops medical, biomedical, and aerospace technologies, including privatized space flight. As a suburb of Cincinnati, West Chester is in a strategic position that draws new related businesses and additional residents to work in these industries. Many live between Cincinnati and Dayton or the inner suburbs between the two cities and commute to either metro area. At the same time, the suburbs in between the two, as well as to the east of Dayton are expanding to fill the corridor for densely. It is expected that the larger part of the southwest quadrant of Ohio will become a single huge metropolitan area, a metroplex or larger distinction.

Speculation about privatized-government space flight projects to Mars by 2035, supported by veterans like space pioneer Buzz Aldrin, give the potential of exponentional growth around West Chester through the middle of the century. Updated news of Mars explortation will appear as it happens in the links below.

The Ohio Space Corridor received a grant of $250,000 in January 2010, to be administered by the University of Dayton in partnership with City of Dayton, Montgomery County, Dayton Development Coalition, and CityWide Development Corp. These companies also contributed $350,000 matchng funds to total $600.000. In June 2010, a search went out for a Hub Director.

Ohio's Goveror Ted Strickland chose the Dayton area for the state's first official Hub of Innovation, becuase of its long history of flight and excellence in aerospace and aviation, including work ast Wright Patterson Air Force Base. University of Dayton Research Institute has accomplished innovations previously in aerospace research and technologies that have created new jobs within the larger Corridor. 

The former West Chester site of Voice of America broadcasting from WWII though the Desert Storm currently incudes a shopping center as well as a university learning center, a museum, and a park.

The VOA Centre shopping place is a strip mall built a major intersection in West Chester, Tylersville Rd and Cox Ln. The Voice of America Centre now features dozens of dining options, from quick food choices and coffee shops to full menu dining. Nearby is the Miami University VOA Learning Center with special programs, and the Ronald Reagan Freedom Park.

Miami University Voice of America Learning Center

Opening in 2009 after acquiring the land and facilities of the VOA site, this institution offers undergraduate degrees, graduate programs in education and business, and customized training for business and government. The Bachelors of Integrative Studies in a new bridge between AA and BA/BS degrees. Teachers can earn graduate degrees here via Miami University's School of Education, Health and Society. The related TEAM Scholarship reduces tuition and fees by 50% for those eligible. Miami University's Farmer School of Business offers the Professional MBA, offered only at this VOA Learning Center and none of the other main or branch campuses.

Hamilton, Ohio about 5 minutes west of West Chester is an industrial city that has moved toward arts and culture in the 2000s and 2010. Its Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park and learning center is an installation unique to the area. It is an outdoor museum of sculpture set in meadows, forests, and gardens. An indoor facility offers an Ancient Sculpture Museum of preserved Roman, Egyptian, Greek and Etruscan classics. The total facility is planned to become the world's only complete history of human sculpture museum.

Besides sculpture, learning center programs are offered at Pyramid Hill in fine arts, horticulture, geology, and the environment. A variety of events are also held in the park that include music concerts, fairs, and special events.

In the winter, special ice sculpture demonstrations and exhibitions are the highlight of the park and Hamilton overall in its role as Sculpture City in this state since Gubernatorial decree in 2000.

• In August 2010, Accutek Testing Laboratory announced a $1.5 million expansion project of which part will be a new 50,000 sq.ft. building in Fairfield Township near West Chester and Cincinnati before the end of October 2010. The new facility is three times larger than the current plant. Accutek is an important company for mechanical and metallurgical testing. Accutek tests products made for aerospace, medical, and manufacturing applications.
• BAE Systems - Technologies.
• GE Aviation - Opened a large new office building in 2009 and resulted in West Chester, Fairfield and Springdale establishing a Joint Economic Development District (JEDD) on 43 acres GE Aviation occupies at Union Centre Boulevard town square mall and business district (see Three communities to share GE Aviation tax revenues).
• Ft. Hamilton Hospital
• Mercy Regional Hospital
• Medco Health Solutions
• West Chester Medical Center

Major local employers In West Chester are active in advancing technologies for a variety of industries - Heathcare, Medical/Biomedical, Aerospace - and Manufacturing in order to produce them all.

1. Engineers and Lead Engineers
2. Enginering Technologists
3. Composite Manufacturing Process Engineers
4. Sub-Section Managers in Engine Aeromechanics
5. Senior Marketing Manager for Aviation Systems, Military
6. IT Applications Architects - Simulation Data Management
7. IM Program Managers for Business Solutions
8. Enabling Tools Project Managers
9. Smart Grid Account Director
10. Data Management Architects for Data Integration
11. IM Project Managers
12. Acoustic Engineers and Technologists
13. Executive for Marketing
14. IM Program Manager for Business

GE Aviation is a a division of GE Technology Infrastructure, a leader in commercial jet engines and components, integrated digital/electric/mechanical aircraft systems. See GE Aviation.

1. Physical Therapists
2. Occupational Therapists
3. Registered Nurses (RNs) - Accute Care, Geriatrics
4. Certified Nursing Assistants (CNAs/STNAs)
5. Retail Sales Representatives
6. Healthcare Support Positions
7. Occupational Therapy Assistants
8. Salespeople and Cashiers
9. Mortgage Processors
10. Patient Advocates

Additional High Demand Jobs

• Speech Language Pathologists
• Security Estimators

• Hondros College School of Nursing at http://www.hondros.edu
• Indiana Wesleyan University at http://www.indwes.edu
• University of Cincinnati at www.uc.edu/
• University of Dayton at http://www.udayton.edu/
• University of Phoenix
• Wright State University at www.wright.edu/
• Xavier University at http://www.xavier.edu