RIBBON CUTTING … Present for the ribbon cutting were: (Back Row) Amanda Brown, Terry Rumnel, Adam Pietrzyk – VP of Engineering at Ohio Gas, Greg Bowman – Thiel Construction Company. (Front Row) Dan Yahraus – Chamber Director, Chuck Turnwald Ohio Gas Secretary Treasurer, Mike Creager Vice President of Field Services at Ohio Gas, Cindy Reed – President of Ohio Gas, Craig Grieser – Field Service Manager at Ohio Gas, Mike VanDerburggen – IT Manager at Ohio Gas, Bob Thiel – President of Thiel Construction, and Bryan City Mayor Carrie Schlade. (PHOTO BY JACOB KESSLER, STAFF)
By: Jacob Kessler
Ohio Gas held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the grand opening of their new office building on Wednesday, September 1st.
The new office building is at 715 East Wilson Street in Bryan and is replacing their previous building located on the corner of West High Street and North Lynn Street.
The property was already owned by Ohio Gas with a building already onsite and being used. Construction was started to add onto the original property in order to bring the majority of their employees in under the same roof.
All together this property will now house Ohio Gas’s call center, offices, meter shop, service shop and more. With four service centers located throughout Northwest Ohio, Ohio Gas saw it fit to bring all offices in Williams County together under the same roof.
All together, the buildings will now be home to 77 employees that work to serve over 50,000 customers in 6 different counties in Northwest Ohio.
Construction began in the Summer of 2020 and finished at the beginning of this Summer. Employees and 60 years’ worth of equipment and supplies then had to be slowly moved over to the new building.
That process has since been completed and the old building is now empty. The old neon sign from the previous building was saved and put up in the meter shop located at the new property.
In the end, Ohio Gas says that this new building will bring them all together to work better as a team.
Jacob can be reached at jacob@thevillagereporter.com