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December 23, 2011 | 6
Book of Lists
From the publisher
Dear readers:
Welcome to our 27th annual Book of Lists,
a publication Columbus Business First
launched its fi rst year in 1984.
As is our annual tradition, we’ve
compiled for you our weekly lists from
the past 52 weeks of Business First, and in
this edition you will fi nd 118 lists.
Our book off ers practical value as a business tool because it
can be put to use daily. I tell our subscribers the Book of Lists
is the most important business directory published in Central
Ohio. It can be used for more than business prospecting; the
book has utility in research, business-to-business relationship
building, fundraising, job searching – the sky’s the limit. If you
are looking for details about Columbus-area companies, as-
sociations, nonprofi t agencies and infl uential individuals, the
Book of Lists is your best resource.
And the book in traditional bound form is only one way its
information is made available. You can purchase compact
discs or downloads of data from the book directly to your
desktop. An interactive book allows buyers to browse lists
from any of the cities where our parent, American City Busi-
ness Journals Inc., operates business news organizations. And
the newest feature, MyBookofLists, which you can fi nd under
the Marketplace pull-down menu at our website, allows you
to build and buy a book customized by list categories and
geography.
As we do every year, we’ve wrapped the lists in an attractive,
photo-fi lled theme. Th is year our theme centers on Columbus’
bicentennial, which it will celebrate in 2012. You’ll read more
about that eff ort from Editor Dominic Cappa on page 9.
Th e book’s printing was overseen by Production Manager
Rudy Melchor and his department associate Tram Mongold.
Subscribers to Columbus Business First receive the Book
of Lists for free. It is mailed under separate cover from our
weekly newspaper and represents a tidy value in addition to
our award-winning print edition and morning and afternoon
daily news reports on the Web.
We trust you will be pleased with our 2011 Book of Lists. We
think you will fi nd the publication comprehensive, detailed,
interesting and most important, useful.
Don DePerro Publisher, Columbus Business First || THE CENTER
ARCHWAY of the entrance
to the Daniel
Burnham & Co.-
designed Union
Station was
preserved and then
reintroduced at
McFerson Commons
in 2000, when
Nationwide Arena
was opened across
the street.
Historical images in the 2011 Book of Lists
published courtesy of the Columbus
Metropolitan Library Digital Collections.
Lists Accounting fi rms 98Advertising agencies 97Air carriers, airlines 185Apartment communities 154Architectural fi rms 177Assisted-living facilities 134Attractions 186, 187Audiovisual production companies 82Automobiles, top selling 31Auto dealerships 72Banks and savings & loans 138Banks, community 137Best places to work 12, 14Cardiology group practices 123Chambers of commerce 63Cities, fastest-growing 35Colleges and universities 90Colleges and universities, MBA programs 92Condominium developments 155Construction companies, commercial 178Construction projects, commercial 179Construction projects, government 182Cosmetic surgery practices 129Credit unions 142Day spas 195Directors, most active 47Distribution centers 66Employee benefi ts fi rms 115Employers, 100 largest 17, 18, 20, 21Engineering fi rms 180Engineering projects 181Executives, highest paid 48, 50, 52, 53Family-owned businesses 26, 28Federal government contractors 65Festivals 196Financial planners 144, 146Foundations 25Golf courses 190, 191Health systems 126Heating and cooling companies 68Homebuilders 151Homebuilders, custom 158Hospitals 124Hospitals, maternity departments 128Hotels 188Industrial leases 174Industrial parks 168Insurance agencies, independent 116Internationally owned companies 30IT consulting fi rms 84Jobs, highest paying 11Jury awards 102Landscaping companies 67Law fi rms 104
Law fi rms, bankruptcy 100Law fi rms, patent law 106Law fi rms, regional 108LEED-certifi ed projects 183Lobbying spenders 110Managed care plans 118Manufacturing fi rms 70Meeting and event facilities 192, 194Mergers and acquisitions 61Minority-owned businesses 29Money managers 147Mortgage lenders, commercial 148Mortgage lenders, residential 152Moving and storage companies 69Nonprofi t organizations 32, 34Nursing centers 135Offi ce business centers 169Offi ce furniture and supply companies 74Offi ce leases 172Offi ce machine companies 73Offi ce parks 167Physician group practices 132Printers, commercial 64Private companies, fastest growing 54, 56Privately held companies 36, 38, 40, 42
Promotional products companies 76Property and casualty companies 120Property management companies 164Public companies 44, 46Real estate agencies, residential 156Real estate brokers, commercial 161Real estate developers, commercial 166Real estate transactions, commercial 162Real estate transactions, residential 157Remodelers, residential 159Retirement communities 130SBA lenders 140Schools, private 87Schools, public districts 88, 89Shopping centers 173State incentives 16STEM programs 94Stock brokerage fi rms 149Temporary employment agencies 22Third-party logistics companies 77Title agencies, title insurance 170Venture capital and private equity fi rms 79Waste management, recycling fi rms 78Web development fi rms 81Women-owned businesses 58, 60
Book of ListsDecember 23, 2011 | 8
EDITORIALManaging editor | Doug Buchanan
Assistant managing editor | Laura Newpoff Associate editor | Katy Smith
Design editor | John LauerResearch director | Nichole Collier
Photographer | Janet AdamsReporters | Brian R. Ball, Jeff Bell,
Adrian Burns, Dan Eaton, Carrie GhoseWeb coordinator | Rick Rouan
ADVERTISINGAssociate sales manager | Katy Burrier
Senior advertising consultant | Sara NeidenthalAdvertising consultants | Maria Myers, Kelley Morris
Classifi ed advertising consultant | Holly CarusoCreative director | Rick Titus
Advertising coordinator | Vita Erlanger
AUDIENCE DEVELOPMENTCirculation marketing manager | Cat BaumanEvent marketing manager | Mikalene Guiser
Circulation assistant | Mary Heilman
ADMINISTRATIONAdvertising AR administrator | Michelle Bay
Administrative assistant/receptionist | Karen Corsi
PRODUCTIONProduction associate | Tram Mongold
Columbus Business First is a publication of American City Business Journals Inc.
120 West Morehead Street, Charlotte. N.C. 28202Whitney Shaw, President & CEO
Ray Shaw, Chairman (1989-2009)
Copyright 2011 Business Journal Publications Inc.All rights reserved. Reproduction or use, without permission, of
editorial or graphic content in any manner is prohibited.
Business First (ISSN 0748-6146) is published weekly, at $103 a year, $196 for two years or $206 for three
years by Business First of Columbus, 303 W. Nationwide Blvd., Columbus, Ohio 43215. Periodicals postage paid
at Columbus, Ohio. Back issues are available for $6 each prepaid (mailed), $3.50 each prepaid (picked up) and
$1.50 each if more than 50 are ordered.
Postmaster, please send address changes to: Business First, 303 W. Nationwide Blvd.,
Columbus, Ohio 43215(614) 461-4040, e-mail: columbus@bizjournals.com
Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use, or the internal or personal use of specifi c
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Published by
THE CENTRAL OHIO BUSINESS AUTHORITY
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614-461-4040
Sections
160 | Commercial real estate
80 | Communications & technology
176 | Construction & design
86 | Education
10 | Employment
136 | Finance
24 | General interest
62 | General services
122 | Health care
114 | Insurance
96 | Professional services
150 | Residential real estate
184 | Leisure & hospitality
|| THE ELEGANCE OF Columbus City Hall remains
84 years after it was built on East Broad Street and
200 years after the city was founded and named
in honor of explorer Christopher Columbus.
Don DePerro | Publisher
Editor | Dominic CappaAdvertising director | Donna Kanoski
Audience development director | Melissa PriceBusiness manager | SuEllen Gabel
Production manager | Rudy Melchor
197 | Advertiser index 198 | Index
December 23, 2011 | 9
Book of Lists
About this book
Columbus turns a tender 200 years old in 2012, so
we can think of no more appropriate photo theme
for our Book of Lists than a celebration of the
city’s bicentennial. True, the book is dated on the
second-to-last Friday of 2011, but we’ll argue it
sets up nicely to recognize the important mile-
stone coming up.
After we established the theme for the latest book, we set
out to compare contemporary Columbus with scenes from
the city’s rich history. We put together a list of iconic visual
elements in the community and set loose our photographer,
Janet Adams. Her job was to capture images of those icons
that withstood the test of 200 years or their replacements.
Hers was a journey undertaken with a lot of help from the
Columbus Metropolitan Library.
Th e genealogy and history experts at the library opened
the institution’s archives of images in the public domain to
us. From there we plotted places to explore, curious to fi nd
how much diff erent – or maybe unchanged – the sites are
from 75, 100, 150, perhaps 200 years ago. Th e old images you’ll
see come courtesy of the library’s digital collections. For the
library’s assistance and permission to reuse the archived im-
ages, we are deeply grateful.
Consider it a visual history lesson. Remember
when President Lincoln’s body lay at the Ohio State-
house in 1865 on its way to his burial in Springfi eld,
Ill.? Th e question is ludicrous, of course. But Adams
photographed a re-enactment of the event this year,
which was compared with an archived image of the
casket that made the train trip through 180 cities
from Washington, D.C., so that mourners could pay
tribute to Lincoln, who was assassinated at Ford’s
Th eatre.
Or consider the High Street cap – the line of shops
and dining spots that bridge Interstate 670. Its ar-
chitecture is strikingly similar to that of the Arcade,
which housed merchants and offi ces and was built
in the late 1890s on a High Street viaduct over the
tracks of Union Station.
Adams’ photo work for the Book of Lists has be-
come well-recognized in Ohio media circles. Since
we began the photo theme eff ort in 2001, she has
brought home eight fi rst-place awards for her work
on the book from the Press Club of Cleveland’s an-
nual Excellence in Journalism competition.
Pulling together Adams’ work and blending it with
the historical images in compelling contrasts on
these pages was John Lauer, our design editor and
another award-winning staff member. Lauer makes
his mark on Business First every week with his page
design and informational graphics, but the Book of
Lists caps his year.
Th e guts of the book are the lists. Our research director, Nic-
hole Collier, takes great pains compiling the lists throughout
the year. While this publication may be easy on the eyes for its
design and photographs, it is the lists that prompt readers to
crack open the book time and time again.
We hope you enjoy the 2011 Book of Lists. We think there is
plenty to see and even more to read. It represents an impor-
tant piece of the report our news staff delivers throughout
the year. We thank you for making Columbus Business First
your primary source of business news and information from
Central Ohio.
Dominic Cappa Editor, Columbus Business First
|| CITY HALL IN Columbus
has withstood more than
eight decades of use. Indeed,
the building looks much like
it did in 1929, when the photo in
the middle was taken – two years
after it moved from the site of
what is now the Palace Th eatre.
Ornate exterior molding over
marble on City Hall is detailed in
the Book of Lists cover.
December 23, 2011 | 10
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Employment12, 14 | Best places
to work
11 | Highest-paid Columbus jobs
17, 18, 20, 21 | Largest employers
16 | State incentives
22 | Temporary employment agencies
|| CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL, pictured in
1925, was integrated into COSI when the science
center was moved from East Broad Street to the
Scioto riverfront in 1999. Th e public school’s
auditorium was a far cry from COSI’s high-tech
digital theater that can project 3-D video.
December 23, 2011 | 24
Book of Lists
Generalinterest
26, 28 | Family-owned businesses
35 | Fastest-growing cities
54, 56 | Fastest-growing private companies
25 | Foundations
48, 50, 52, 53 | Highest-paid executives
30 | Internationally owned companies
61 | Mergers and acquisitions
29 | Minority-owned businesses
47 | Most-active directors
32, 34 | Nonprofi t organizations
36, 38, 40, 42 | Privately held companies
44, 46 | Public companies
31 | Top-selling automobiles
58, 60 | Women-owned businesses
|| PERHAPS NOWHERE IS the contrast
between old and new Columbus more sharp
than along the downtown riverfront. Tens
of millions of dollars in improvements
along the Scioto Mile have created a scene far
diff erent than the industrial east bank, above,
and slums along the west bank, at left, where
renovations are being made to the Rich Street
bridge more than 100 years later.
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December 23, 2011 | 62
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Generalservices
63 | Chambers of commerce
64 | Commercial printers
66 | Distribution centers
65 | Federal government contractors
68 | Heating and cooling companies
67 | Landscaping companies
69 | Moving and storage companies
70 | Manufacturers
72 | New-car dealerships
74 | Offi ce furniture and supply companies
73 | Offi ce machine companies
76 | Promotional products companies
77 | Third-party logistics companies
79 | Venture capital and private equity fi rms
78 | Waste management and recycling companies
|| THE ATHLETIC CLUB of Columbus’
roots reach to 1912,
when it was founded
and three years before
it dedicated its new
clubhouse on East Broad
Street downtown. Th e
build’s exterior has
changed little since then,
and so have elements
of the interior, such as
the swimming pool. Th e
Irving Hotel, bottom, once
stood on the site of the
clubhouse.
December 23, 2011 | 80
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Communications and technology82 | Audiovisual production
companies
84 | IT consulting fi rms
81 | Web development companies
|| DEMONSTRATORS WALKED ALONG South High
Street toward Capitol Square last summer to protest an
attempt to restrict collective bargaining for state workers,
but the march was peaceful compared with the Columbus
Streetcar Strike in 1910. Back then, hundreds fi lled South High
as part of a months-long violent strike against the Columbus
Railway and Light Co. over wages and union recognition.Section sponsored by:
December 23, 2011 | 86
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Education90 | Colleges and
universities
92 | MBA programs
87 | Private schools
88, 89 | Public school districts
94 | STEM programs
|| THE BOTT BROTHERS’ name
remains for all to see on North High Street
in downtown more than 100 years later,
and what’s behind the entrance diff ers
little from the saloon that was anchored by
its lengthy bar. Th e storefront now marks the
Elevator Brewery & Restaurant and decades
before that was called the Clock Restaurant.
December 23, 2011 | 96
Book of Lists
Professional services
98 | Accounting fi rms
97 | Advertising agencies
100 | Bankruptcy law fi rms
110 | Biggest spenders on lobbying
102 | Jury awards
104 | Law fi rms
106 | Patent law fi rms
108 | Regional law fi rms|| PRESIDENT LINCOLN’S BODY was
transported 1,600 miles by train from Washington,
D.C., to its burial place in Illinois after his
assassination in 1865. Among the places the casket
was displayed on that somber trip was the Ohio
Statehouse rotunda. A re-enactment of the repose of
Lincoln was conducted last spring, 146 years later.
Section sponsored by:
December 23, 2011 | 114
Book of Lists
Insurance115 | Employee benefi ts
fi rms
116 | Independent insurance agencies
118 | Managed-care plans
120 | Property and casualty insurance companies
|| THE CAP OVER Interstate 670 bears
similarities to the Arcade
at Union Station in 1908.
Like the modern-day cap
that lets High Street bridge
the highway, the Arcade
and High Street sat above
the station tracks at the site
of the Greater Columbus
Convention Center and
its train-inspired design.
December 23, 2011 | 122
Book of Lists
Health134 | Assisted-living
facilities
123 | Cardiology and cardiothoracic group practices
129 | Cosmetic surgery practices
124 | Hospitals
126 | Health systems
128 | Maternity departments
135 | Nursing centers
132 | Physician group practices
130 | Retirement communities
|| SCHILLER PARK IN German Village
has sustained its
tranquility for more
than 100 years, along with
its monument to poet
and philosopher Johann
Friedrich von Schiller.
December 23, 2011 | 136
Book of Lists
Finance138 | Banks and
savings & loans
137 | Community banks
148 | Commercial mortgage lenders
142 | Credit unions
144, 146 | Financial planners
147 | Money managers
140 | SBA lenders
149 | Stock brokerage fi rms
|| A LAKE AT Franklin
Park, as seen in 1903 at
right, and the park’s stately
glass-enclosed conservatory
have remained iconic elements
of the city’s east side.
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December 23, 2011 | 150
Book of Lists
Residential real estate154 | Apartment
communities
155 | Condominium developments
158 | Custom homebuilders
151 | Homebuilders
152 | Home mortgage lenders
157 | Residential real estate transactions
156 | Residential real estate agencies
159 | Residential remodelers
|| BROAD STREET HAS remained a
vital artery through
Columbus. Witness
the collection of vehicles
that fi lled it years ago and
nowadays. East Broad
Street also sported a tree-
lined boulevard in horse-
and-buggy days, though
those trees have moved
to the curb not far from
St. Joseph Cathedral,
where the archived image
and 2011 Business First
photo at the top of the
page were taken.
December 23, 2011 | 160
Book of Lists
Commercial real estate161 | Commercial
real estate brokers
166 | Commercial real estate developers
162 | Commercial real estate transactions
174 | Industrial leases
168 | Industrial parks
172 | Offi ce leases
167 | Offi ce parks
169 | Offi ce business centers
164 | Property management companies
173 | Shopping centers
170 | Title agencies
|| THE GLEAMING LIBRARY downtown
still greets visitors
with its grand marble
staircase. And the
Columbus Metropolitan
Library’s classroom of
2011 sports technology
that marks the dramatic
contrast with its
classroom of old.
Section sponsored by:
|| THE WEXNER CENTER for the Arts at Ohio
State University sports a design inspired by the
Armory and Gymnasium with its turrets, which
sat at that spot on campus and was dedicated in
1898. Th e Armory was razed in 1959 after a fi re.
December 23, 2011 | 176
Book of Lists
Construction & design
177 | Architectural fi rms
178 | Commercial construction companies
179 | Commercial construction projects
180 | Engineering fi rms
181 | Engineering projects
172 | Government construction projects
183 | LEED-certifi ed projects
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December 23, 2011 | 184
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Leisure & hospitality185 | Air carriers &
airlines
186, 187 | Attractions
195 | Day spas
196 | Festivals
188 | Hotels
192, 194 | Meeting and event facilities
190 | Private golf courses
191 | Public golf courses
|| WITH ITS DISTINCTIVE pagoda-style clock
tower and barrel vaulted
ceiling, the Toledo and
Ohio Central Railroad
depot was built in 1895
and withstood fi re and
fl ooding before closing
in 1929. Th e building on
West Broad Street has
been restored as home to
the Union headquarters
of the Fraternal Order of
Locomotive Firemen.
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