Editing Ardmore, Oklahoma (section)

==Economy==
Ardmore is the principal center of trade for a ten-county region in [[South Central Oklahoma]], with a retail pull factor of 1.7–1.9. Ardmore's major employers are [[Michelin]] [[North America]], with 1,900 employees, who announced its plan to close the tire building portion of the plant in 2025, and Mercy Hospital Ardmore, with 900 employees. Several hundred employees work for regional distribution centers for [[Best Buy]], [[Dollar Tree]] (Marietta) and [[Dollar General|Dollar General Stores]], among others. Until early 2009, Ardmore was also home to a large regional distribution center for the now-defunct retail electronics chain [[Circuit City]] and was also home to a 1-800-flowers call center. In 2010 Ardmore lost another technology company, IMTEC, which was purchased by 3M and moved away to California. The {{convert|85000|oilbbl/d|m3/d|abbr=on}} [[Valero Energy Corporation|Valero]] [[Oil refinery|refinery]] in northeast Ardmore employs some 250 area residents. Ardmore is also home to the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, among the nation's 50 largest private foundations, primarily engaged in [[agricultural biotechnology|agricultural bioresearch]] activities. In 2001, [[East Jordan Iron Works]] opened a foundry located at the Ardmore Industrial Airpark. On September 24, 2020, [[Oklahoma Blood Institute]] opened one of the largest blood donation facilities in the state in Oklahoma
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