B y Tim Feran 
The Columbus Dispatch 

A for-profit social enterprise is proposing to bring 200 new jobs to Franklinton by creating a call center in former medical offices in the area of Mount Carmel West hospital.

The proposal will be presented Monday at a meeting of the Ohio Controlling Board as part of a request for funding.
The state’s Development Services Agency will ask that the controlling board loan $7.6 million to help Fortuity Holding LLC, buy, renovate and expand the real estate at 750 Mount Carmel Mall.

The development would create 200 “living-wage call-center jobs,” according to the proposal.

​“We literally can walk with somebody from pretty close to minimum wage skills all the way to $25-an-hour permanent job with benefits,” said Fred Brothers, the investor and entrepreneur who founded Fortuity Holding, the real-estate holding company for Fortuity Calling. “For a lot of them, this would be best opportunity they’ve had.”

The proposal would bring jobs to Franklinton and the Hilltop, areas that will be more in need than ever after the Mount Carmel West hospital closes next year.

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By Carrie Ghose  –  Staff reporter, Columbus Business First
Nov 29, 2017, 6:30am

The first proposed project for the transformation of Mount Carmel West and its neighbors would bring 200 jobs to Franklinton after the hospital closes, according to documents filed with the state.

A for-profit social enterprise wants to put a call center in medical offices that wouldn't be needed when the campus switches to outpatient and educational uses in 2019.

In addition to paying a "living wage," Fortuity Holding LLC would provide job training and help finding day-care, health care, education and access to healthier food, according to a request that will be before the Ohio Controlling Board at next Monday's meeting.
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The state Development Services Agency has recommended $7.6 million in loans for Fortuity to finance just more than half of the $13 million project to buy, convert and equip the call center. The funds are from a direct loan program for "economic development, business expansion and job creation."

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