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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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:

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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||  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.

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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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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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