WLWT5: Gov. John Kasich Celebrates New Wilmington Jobs

news five Karen Johnson at leading the way tonight with what the governor has in store for Wilmington families in addition to bringing more than two hundred fifty jobs into the area folks here in Wilmington say

it's also a big morale booster we want that noise around here noise in money words

airpark I think people are more hope is it coming as quickly as we would like no corset is but

pleased by airborne meat into engineering services or any which provide maintenance repair and overhaul services at the site they

have the capability now to service the biggest planes in the world including the seven forty seven so yeah

I think this is really terrific and it's creating two hundred fifty or nine jobs where the beauty of those two hundred and fifty nine jobs is that everyone of those will be tight hopefully

to a local resident who has a family who had who will be able to to provide for their family and those are the kind of jobs that we want at this airport those

aircraft maintenance and repair job five years ago an economic storm devastated this area when DHL pulled out of the airport eight

thousand people were left without jobs I said that day I thought the sun would come up now it's starting to rise the

that in the past it's been limited due to capacity constraints note hoping to attract larger fleet operations and

eventually I'd even more job at three years from now officials here in Wilmington expect games employment at the airpark to

exceed six hundred forty possession in Wilmington parent Java WLWT news five the

unemployment rate in Wilmington has decreased by more than half in just the last three years in

January of two thousand and eleven it with fifteen point four percent now it stands just over six

and a half percent so good