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Two-year search
yields corporate headquarters
Integrity
Ambulance has ceremonial groundbreaking for business park on
Martin Street
By Bob Robinson
Photos by Jessica Transue
As temperatures approached the 90-degree mark Tuesday morning, public
officials and business leaders gathered under the shade of trees in the
Greenville Inn parking lot on Martin Street. They announced the
ceremonial groundbreaking for Integrity Business Park and the corporate
headquarters of Integrity Ambulance Service.
According to Brad Feldner, one of the founders of Integrity Ambulance
and its Chief Operations Officer (COO), the search for a new site for
its corporate headquarters began in 2009.
“We had to consider locations outside of Greenville because we couldn’t
find what we needed here… then this location was suggested.”
Feldner thanked Deb Rose, Rose Realty, along with government officials
and a number of other businesses, for the thousands of hours it took to
put the project together.
Integrity got its start in 2005 on Front Street in Greenville. Since
then it has grown to 150 employees in six locations serving clients in
Western Ohio from Michigan to just north of Cincinnati. There are 45
employees in its Greenville headquarters.
“We’ve experienced 40 to 50 percent growth every year in the last two
to three years,” he said. He added that Integrity annually provides
23,000 ambulance and 39,000 wheelchair transportation services.
“Integrity is in the top 10 percent of medical transportation providers
in the state,” he said.
The 25.5-acre Integrity Business Park is planned as a mixed-use
commercial park and, according to Greenville Mayor Mike Bowers,
supports a planning study that indicated Greenville should address its
“gateways” into the city.
“This park does that,” he said. He noted the difficulty and planning it
took to put the project together, saying that “numerous options came up
and numerous options went away.”
While crediting them for their efforts in helping Integrity keep its
home in Greenville, Feldner closed with a message to public officials.
“We need to continue to explore, keep thinking outside the box,” he
said. “Talk to businesses. Find out what we need to do to keep and
create new businesses.
“They are taking a hard look at the regulations that keep them from
creating jobs,” he said.
Feldner also noted that as government looks at ways to keep its
expenditures under control, it can’t forget its seniors.
“The elderly worked their entire lives on the promise they would be
taken care of later,” he said. That promise needs to be kept.
Following the presentation, officials and about 50 guests moved to a
section just off the parking lot for the ceremonial “First Shovel.”
Construction had already begun as planned, but the groundbreaking had
had to be postponed due to scheduling conflicts.
Feldner is one of four founders of Integrity Ambulance Service. The
others are John Johnston, CEO, Jodie Johnston, CFO, and Jamie Feldner.
The park represents a $1.9 million Integrity investment.
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