Editing Wilmington, Ohio (section)

==Economy==
In the early 1950s, the city became home to a number of [[United States Department of Defense|U.S. Department of Defense]] facilities, most notably the [[Clinton County Air Force Base]]. Following its closure in 1971, the economy of the city hovered in recession for more than a decade. After a number of small attempts to reuse the abandoned air force base, [[Airborne Express]] purchased the facility in 1979 for $850,000, a fraction of the estimated $100 million spent to construct it{{Citation needed|reason=Reliable source needed for the whole sentence|date=November 2014}}. During the next 24 years, Airborne invested more than $250 million to build a hub for its national delivery network, including new sort centers, a {{convert|9000|ft|m|adj=on}} runway, aircraft hangars, [[machine shop]]s, [[flight simulator]]s, a state of art [[control tower]], and a modern administration building to accommodate an estimated 6,000 employees and its fleet of 125 [[DC-8]], [[DC-9]] and [[Boeing 767]] aircraft.

In 2003, Airborne Express reorganized and [[ABX Air]], Inc., was created. ABX Air is a contract freight forwarding business whose primary customer is [[DHL Express|DHL]], one of the world's largest international shipping firms. ABX's parent company, [[Air Transport Services Group]], is based in Wilmington. Owned by the [[Deutsche Post]] WorldNet, a German [[holding company]], DHL consolidated its US flight and sorting hub operations in Wilmington in 2005. Restructuring in May 2008 resulted in eight thousand layoffs,<ref>{{cite news|title=DHL plan could cost 6,000 jobs at ABX |url=http://www.daytondailynews.com/b/content/oh/story/business/2008/05/29/ddn052908dhlweb.html?cxntlid=inform_artr |work=Dayton Daily News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080601085956/http://www.daytondailynews.com/b/content/oh/story/business/2008/05/29/ddn052908dhlweb.html?cxntlid=inform_artr |archive-date=June 1, 2008 |date=May 29, 2008}}</ref> and six months later the Wilmington hub was closed, resulting in another eight thousand layoffs.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/11/10/dhl.closing.wilmington/index.html|title=DHL Job Cuts Devastate Ohio Community|work=CNN|date=November 10, 2008}}</ref>

The facility closed in July 2009, and DHL moved to a much smaller sorting operation at the [[Cincinnati-Northern Kentucky International Airport]]. Wilmington's airport hosts a comparatively smaller Maintenance Repair and Overhaul venture, along with Airborne Maintenance and Engineering Services, employing several hundred employees under the auspices of the ABX Air parent company, ATSG (Air Transport Services Group).<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kuhn |first1=Megan |title=ABX parents moves forward with MRO unit |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/02/24/323027/abx-parents-moves-forward-with-mro-unit.html |access-date=June 25, 2009 |work=Flight Global |agency=Air Transport Intelligence news |date=February 24, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090804000252/http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/02/24/323027/abx-parents-moves-forward-with-mro-unit.html |archive-date=August 4, 2009}}</ref>

On July 16, 2009, the Wilmington City Council voted unanimously to establish Wilmington as a "Green Enterprise Zone". The legislation will facilitate green economic development by creating financial incentives for the creation of green collar jobs. The City Council passed the measure in response to an economic grassroots movement initiated in October 2008 by two Wilmington High School graduates, Mark Rembert and Taylor Stuckert, aided by Pure Blue Energy, LLC a consulting firm out of North Carolina. Wilmington is the first city in the United States to pass such a law.

The AZEK Company has its main manufacturing plant in Wilmington, and produces composite decking and railing systems under the TimberTech & AZEK brands. In 2018, with the Green Enterprise Zone initiative in place, the AZEK Company opened a state-of-the-art polyethylene recycling plant in Wilmington Airpark which recycles post-industrial and post-consumer polyethylene and PVC, and makes it into raw material for TimberTech decking.<ref>{{cite web |title=AZEK discloses plastics recycling details |url=https://resource-recycling.com/plastics/2020/06/17/azek-discloses-plastics-recycling-details/ |website=Plastics Recycling Update |access-date=2024-09-11 |date=2020-06-17}}</ref>

Wilmington is also home to CMH Regional Health System,<ref>{{cite web |title=Clinton Memorial Hospital |url=https://www.cmhregional.com/ |access-date=March 8, 2022}}</ref> a regional health provider. From its base of operations at Clinton Memorial [[Hospital]], the non-profit corporation has established health clinics in almost a dozen satellite locations in Southwestern Ohio. In 2007, CMH opened the Foster J. Boyd, MD, Regional Cancer Center in Wilmington, providing cancer treatment services for patients throughout Southwest Ohio. The hospital in Wilmington has 95 staffed beds, and employed nearly 1000 people as of fiscal year 2006.<ref>{{cite web |title=CMH REGIONAL HEALTH SYSTEM FACT SHEET 2006 |url=http://www.cmhregional.com/pdf/CMHFactSheet2006.pdf |website=Clinton Memorial Hospital |access-date=April 18, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090320074755/http://www.cmhregional.com/pdf/CMHFactSheet2006.pdf |archive-date=March 20, 2009}}</ref> The hospital also offers a six-bed Intensive Care Unit, a dedicated Emergency Room (with an average of over 30,000 visits from 2004–2006), an Obstetrics Unit (with 725 births in FY 2006), Surgical services (6,356 surgical procedures and 1,184 endoscopies FY 2006), Medical-Telemetry care, Medical-Surgical and Pediatric care, Physical Rehabilitation, Nuclear Medicine and CT services, and a Sleep Study center, amongst other various professional services at the hospital. RegionalCare Hospital Partners of Brentwood, Tennessee, purchased Clinton Memorial Hospital on November 30, 2010. The total sale price after adjustments was $82,137,477.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Cooper |first1=Rose |title=Sale of Clinton Memorial Hospital completed |url=http://wnewsj.com/main.asp?SectionID=49&SubSectionID=156&ArticleID=187398 |access-date=November 30, 2010 |work=Wilmington News Journal |date=November 30, 2010 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130209120413/http://wnewsj.com/main.asp?SectionID=49&SubSectionID=156&ArticleID=187398 |archive-date=February 9, 2013}}</ref>

In addition to air freight services and medical services, the city of Wilmington also competes in the truck freight industry, serving as corporate home to [[R+L Carriers]], a trucking and shipping company located off of the intersection between [[U.S. 68]] and [[I-71]] north of Wilmington.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.freightclick.com/freight-companies/randl-carriers.html |title=R&L; Carriers |access-date=2008-09-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080929184622/http://www.freightclick.com/freight-companies/randl-carriers.html |archive-date=2008-09-29 |url-status=dead }}</ref>