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Columbus Castings site to sprout warehouses

A real-estate developer plans to turn the former Columbus Castings site into a warehouse development.

CRG, a Chicago-based developer with a new office in Columbus, is in the process of buying 70 acres of the once-mighty South Side foundry.

CRG proposes building two warehouses on the site, one 902,889 square feet on 56 acres and the other 185,600 square feet on 13 acres. A retention pond also is in the site plan. The developer has not announced who will occupy the warehouses, but word is expected in the next few months.

Columbus Castings closed in 2016 after operating for more than a century at 2211 Parsons Ave.

Dupont plans expansion, 46 new jobs in Circleville

Dupont will hire 46 workers and invest $220 million as part of an expansion of its Circleville plant.

The investment will be used for machinery and equipment, along with construction costs to expand its Kapton film line used in electronics manufacturing.

Hiring will begin this summer. The plant has been in operation for more than 60 years and currently employs 500 workers.

Tourism campaign set for LGBTQ community

Experience Columbus will launch its first advertising campaign aimed at the LGBTQ community.

An ad that will appear in Ohio’s Prizm magazine will be joined by digital ads in five cities — Cleveland; Detroit; Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, Indiana; and Charleston, West Virginia.

Experience Columbus for a few years has produced the Out in Columbus LGBTQ Guide geared to the audience.

Columbus has hosted a number of Lgbtq-centered groups, including the Ohio State Bar Association LGBT Diversity and Inclusion Conference in 2013 and 2015, the North American Gay Amateur Athletic Alliance in 2015, and the Gay Softball World Series in 2010 and 2015, which will return to Columbus next year.