Ohio County, KY Recent News

Advantage Kentucky Alliance exists to support, empower and impact our local industry by boosting growth opportunities and productivity of Kentucky Manufacturers. Our purpose is to help our manufacturers become more globally competitive so they can retain and even create additional industry and jobs within the state of Kentucky.  View their latest newslette...Continue Reading

Millennials are a vibrant part of Ohio County, Kentucky. They’re both moving into the area and staying there. Thanks to this younger influence, the county now hits all of the points on the "hipster index,” which is an economic indicator that shows a community is poised for growth and ca...Continue Reading

Ohio County Economic Development Alliance (OCEDA) has made workforce development a priority.  “Kentucky has aggressive workforce solution programs,” OCEDA Executive Director, Jodi Ashby says. “Ohio County shares a labor market area with both the 3rd and 4th largest cities in the Commonwealth. We’re fortunate to have wonderful resources to hel...Continue Reading

 Ohio County, KY, is a growing tourist destination and for good reason. Tourists who visit Ohio County have a ton of fun recreational activities to enjoy and places to visit when they are here! Our county sits on the southern border of the famous Ohio River, making fishing and water-relate...Continue Reading

Businesses, big and small, are choosing to locate their businesses in Ohio County’s Bluegrass Crossings Business Centre. The business centre is located near I-64 and I-24, allowing easy highway transportation access for businesses. Ohio County, KY, is only a few hours away from major metropolitan cities like Nashville, St. Louis...Continue Reading

 Located in Western Kentucky, Ohio County continues to dedicate its time and resources to helping small businesses thrive here! The Ohio County Economic Development Alliance (OCEDA) offers to help small businesses and entrepreneurs in the area. The OCEDA does this by assisting in developing business plans and free support services. Th...Continue Reading

 Here in Ohio County, KY, we strive to make sure that every business, big and small, can thrive. This is why our Ohio County Economic Development Alliance (OCEDA) is dedicated to informing local businesses about the incentives and incentive programs available to them. These incentives include both local and statewide. Statewid...Continue Reading

Ohio County, KY, is the birthplace of Bluegrass. This draws many Bluegrass lovers to our county every year. This includes Bluegrass musicians, new and old. When they are here, they can enjoy our historic sites and museums dedicated to the genre. Tourists can enjoy the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fam...Continue Reading

More people are choosing to live in Ohio County, KY, and here is why. Locating a business in Ohio County or becoming a part of its workforce has more advantages than most other rural areas. This includes things like remote work training programs, co-working spaces, and many great available propert...Continue Reading

Ohio County’s new economic development website is now a great online data resource for site selectors and businesses looking to do business in the area. The Ohio County Economic Development Alliance (OCEDA) has worked hard on conducting research and gathering data that is highly beneficial to businesses that operate i...Continue Reading

 The Ohio County Airport, located in Hartford, Kentucky, has been making business easier for local businesses! Located just three miles away from the major William Natcher Highway 165 makes the airport very accessible. The airport is equipped with a 5,000 ft runway and is open 24 hours a day, Monda...Continue Reading

Ohio County, KY, is proud to be the capital of Bluegrass and home to the historic and legendary Bluegrass musician Bill Monroe. Ohio County has dedicated its time to making sure these historical sites and memories are preserved and available for tourists and residents to enjoy. We have several historic site...Continue Reading

Ohio County, KY, is home to many great businesses. Target industries in Ohio County, KY, include aviation, manufacturing, agriculture, timber, and coal. Kentucky is the second-largest aerospace exporter in the nation, making aviation a major target industry in Ohio County with plenty of room for expansion. Our affordable commercial real estat...Continue Reading

Ohio County, KY, has a unique opportunity for people and businesses to invest in and take advantage of our opportunity zone. Opportunity zones are areas sanctioned by the federal government to help stimulate economic growth and sustainability. This is done by giving investors and businesses that are located in thes...Continue Reading

Unlike any other, the economic land mine prompted by the pandemic created wreckage and reverberation for businesses across the global economy. But few other states are as prepared to rise and rebound as Kentucky. With deep resources in advanced manufacturing and fully formed supply chains, unparalleled air-cargo assets, a dominan...Continue Reading

While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to create an environment of unpredictability, the one certainty is that the way in which people previously commuted to their jobs — and the way in which goods and services were traditionally delivered — is likely changed forever. It is still too early to predict th...Continue Reading

Newly dispersed work teams are facing new challenges. During the early months of the global pandemic, more than three-quarters of organizations reported 80 percent or more of their employees were working from home, according to a global survey on workplace re-entry. While workplace mobility isn’t new, the scale of remote work has accelerate...Continue Reading

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 5, 2020 LEGISLATIVE UPDATE Two Constitutional Amendments on the Ballot Representative Scott Lewis This year’s election is unlike any in our history. Instead of marching into our usual local polling place, many of us are voting in different locations and in different ways. Some of you may have already requested an...Continue Reading

 Ohio County’s Economic Development Alliance (OCEDA) is committed to giving as much in-depth information on available properties in the county. Using our online available properties tool users can search through Ohio County’s available properties in several refined ways. Users can search by sale price, lease rate, square footage, or acreage. User...Continue Reading

No sector now is more active than logistics, and there is no busier niche within it than cold chain for grocery and medical needs. The busiest companies within that niche, before and since COVID-19, are automated logistics pioneers and the grocers they serve. Digital Commerce 360’s 2020 Online Food Report, release...Continue Reading

The Ohio County Economic Development Alliance (OCEDA) has launched our social media pages and our new website to keep people informed on what is going on in Ohio County, KY. Our social media pages are dedicated to keeping the community informed on local events and news. This news is beneficial t...Continue Reading

Ruth Porat, the stalwart chief financial officer of Alphabet and Google, is no stranger to a crisis. She began her career at Morgan Stanley in 1987, a mere seven weeks before Black Monday—the largest single-day decline in trading history at the time. “At that moment, I was concerned that mayb...Continue Reading

“Unprecedented” – the word describes both Kentucky’s economic expansion during the past decade and the ensuing pandemic that stalled those historic gains in a relative instant. But despite the hardship pervading the state and the entire US, Kentucky’s economic advantages stand to help the Bluegrass State not merely recover, but reac...Continue Reading