COLUMBUS, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--JPMorgan Chase & Co., the region’s largest private sector employer, will add 350 or more employees in Central Ohio during the next five years. To accommodate its employment growth, the firm will invest more than $18 million to refurbish leased office space at two Polaris Parkway locations.
“Chase continues to offer a growing number of career opportunities at a great company in Columbus,” said James Malz, president of Chase in Ohio. “In addition, the new jobs bring new investment in the community as our real estate needs grow and we customize workspaces to welcome new colleagues.”
When this new wave of hiring is complete, Chase will have added more than 6,000 new jobs and a million square feet of real estate in central Ohio since the 2004 merger of Bank One and JPMorgan Chase. Last year alone, Chase added about 2,500 jobs in Central Ohio.
Chase has leased 72,000 square feet of space in Columbus and an 83,000-square-foot building in Westerville. Workers will move into the Columbus building next month and into the Westerville building this summer.
Located in the city of Columbus, the McCoy Center already is the working home to more than 10,000 employees. It is the single largest JPMorgan Chase facility in the world.
Last fall, Chase opened two offices totaling 123,000 square feet for mortgage banking workers in Gahanna.
“We’ve had tremendous community support—particularly from Columbus, Westerville and Gahanna—as Chase expanded our Central Ohio workforce in recent years,” said Malz.
Overall, Chase has nearly 4 million square feet of office and production space in Central Ohio where it employs more than 19,000 workers. The company occupied about 3 million square feet of office space and employed 12,500 workers in the region in 2004.
The company and its predecessor banks celebrate 200 years of serving Ohioans in 2012.
About Chase
Chase operates 56 bank branches and 200 ATMs in Franklin and Delaware counties; across Ohio, Chase has 289 bank branches and 870 ATMs, serves nearly four million consumers and 150,000 small businesses and employs more than 22,000. Chase is the U.S. consumer and commercial banking business of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM). More information about Chase is available at www.chase.com.