JUST IN: Community Tissue Services buys ex-Synchrony building in Kettering
Synchrony was the first private tenant at the Kettering Business Park, a location the city redeveloped after the federal government closed Gentile ...
Synchrony was the first private tenant at the Kettering Business Park, a location the city redeveloped after the federal government closed Gentile Air Station in the mid-1990s. The federal Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) process placed Gentile on a military base closure list and moved the Defense Electronics Supply Center to Columbus in late 1996, emptying the site of employment. After the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Synchrony pulled some 1,900 jobs ― with an annual payroll of some $100 million — from the site when its lease expired late that year, leaving the city of Kettering with a 'significant decline in our tax revenue,' City Manager Schwieterman acknowledged in September that year.