600 Jobs Could Be Lost If Bridgestone Firestone Leaves Akron (OH)

[OhioChick]

POSTED: 12:25 pm EST February 1, 2008
UPDATED: 12:47 pm EST February 1, 2008

AKRON, Ohio -- Akron could potentially lose Bridgestone Firestone, and lose hundreds of jobs with it.

The company has outgrown its facility near South Main Street in Akron, so it's a possibility that the 600-plus white-collar jobs could head south to Tennessee.

The city is not giving up without a fight, however, reported NewsChannel5's Jonathan Costen.

The company has options: renovate its existing building, build a new tech center in Akron, or simply move out of the state.

For several months the city of Akron has been meeting and working to keep the company there.

Bridgestone Firestone will make a recommendation sometime in May, and a decision will be made later this year.

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/15195097/detail.html

[Auggie]

1. Why don't they move to Cleveland? There were plenty of empty office

buildings last time I was downtown.

[OhioChick]

2. Definitely...

Cleveland is becoming a ghost town.

[Omaha Steve]

3. Marta and I haven't been to Ohio since....

The new Neon (cinerama) theater in Dayton closed about 10 years ago. We made the trek to see "How the West Was Won" in true cinerama in the late summer of 97. It drew real out of state $ to Ohio. We stayed at the steamship house B&B. We had one meal at a formerly condemned dinner downtown etc...