Editing Ozark, Missouri (section)

==Economy==
Ozark was home to Simclar Interconnect Technologies, a {{convert|100000|sqft|adj=on}} [[Simclar Group]] factory, providing [[backplane]] fabrication for [[Telecommunications network|telecommunications]] and [[data communications]] customers.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.simclar.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44&Itemid=185 |title= Simclar USA Missouri| publisher= [[Simclar Group]] | access-date= 2012-03-30}}</ref> In 2007, Simclar moved 115 jobs to Ozark from Springfield, lured by a "[[tax incentive]] under which the company donated $1 million to a local not-for-profit corporation, which in turn will buy buildings, machinery and equipment and lease them back to Simclar."<ref>{{cite web|author=Tracy Heffner| url= http://pcdandf.com/cms/index2.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3260&Itemid=90&pop=1&page=3177 | title=Simclar Reports Plant Closures, Relocation | date= 29 January 2007| work= Printed Circuit Design & Fab Magazine | publisher= UP Media Group | access-date= 2012-03-30}}</ref> In 2012, Los Angeles-based private equity firm Balmoral Funds LLC acquired the Ozark plant as part of an agreement that included plants in Hialeah, Florida and Matamoros, Mexico. The company was renamed Concurrent Manufacturing Solutions LLC.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Brown |first1=Brian |last2=Olson |first2=Eric |title=Simclar sells Ozark plant to private equity firm |url=https://sbj.net/stories/simclar-sells-ozark-plant-to-private-equity-firm,18321 |publisher=Springfield Business Journal |access-date=16 June 2020 |date=5 November 2012}}</ref>

The [[Springfield/Ozark Mountain Ducks]] were an independent baseball team playing in the [[Central Baseball League]] from 1998 to 2003; [[Price Cutter Park]], which was built in early 1999, was their home field.

In 2011, [[B&B Theatres]] built a cinema between Ozark and [[Nixa, Missouri|Nixa]] along [[Missouri Route 14|Route 14]].<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.bbtheatres.com/location.asp?location=28030 |title= B & B Ozark-Nixa 12 with Marquee Suites| publisher= [[B&B Theatres]]| access-date=2012-03-30}}</ref>
The Belltower Chapel, originally the Ozark Christian Church, was built in 1912 and is located off of the [[Ozark Courthouse Square Historic District (Ozark, Missouri)|Historic Courthouse Square]] in Ozark; since its 21st-century renovation it serves as a venue for weddings and other events.