Dayton-based Stratacache is not moving its headquarters to Trotwood, and a company vice president this afternoon corrected a recent announcement on the Trotwood mayor’s Facebook page.
According to a Aug. 26 post on Trotwood Mayor Mary McDonald’s Facebook page, Trotwood will be the home of the “world headquarters” for Stratacache, a Dayton company that focuses on digital signage technology.
But Kelly Silverman, Stratacache vice president of marketing, said that while her company is moving some functions to Trotwood, the headquarters will not be one of them.
“We will continue to have our corporate headquarters here at 2 River place in Dayton,” Silverman said in a phone interview.
What the digital signage and marketing company is moving is its production and warehousing functions from Arbor Boulevard in Moraine to the former Syncreon facility at 1 Modern Way in Trotwood, Silverman said.
Right now, about 34 employees will move from Moraine to Trotwood, she said. The consolidation of another facility into the Trotwood site will mean another 15 employees there, she said. In total, about 50 Stratacache employees will work in Trotwood.
But Stratacache also plans to work with Trotwood to “scale up” and “bring some new (additional) jobs to the area,” Silverman added.
Modern Way is soon to be renamed to Stratacache Way, McDonald’s post said. The facility is located in the Trotwood Industrial Complex, off Wolf Creek Pike and Olive Road.
Silverman wasn’t certain why the confusion happened. She said she met with Trotwood officials Friday and toured the site at 1 Modern Way.
“It was very clear during that tour and also during the meetings that we will continue to keep our corporate headquarters where we were at,” Silverman said.
“I think someone on our staff got it mixed up,” McDonald said when reached this afternoon.
She said she believed a staff member gave her incorrect information, and she planned to correct the post.
Stratacache has two current facilities, one in Dayton and the other in Moraine, with some 200 employees locally and about 270 employees total. In all, Stratacache has offices serving 28 countries.
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“Trotwood has created a business-friendly environment, partnering with the Trotwood Community Investment Corp., to attract premier companies like Stratacache,” McDonald said in her Aug. 26 post. “We are gearing up to welcome other companies to our city, as well. We promised our citizens a new direction and that is what we are delivering, especially with the addition of Stratacache to the community.”
“We are experiencing a resurgence of development in the city of Trotwood, where businesses are welcome and can thrive,” Trotwood City Manager Quincy Pope, said in the post. “We are entering an exciting new era.”
In an interview with WHIO-TV Monday, Fred Burkhardt, executive director of the Trotwood Improvement Corp., said Stratacache had bought the old Syncreon distribution site in Trotwood.
Syncreon had built a distribution site for General Motors parts in the mid-2000s. The site closed at about 2014.
“It was a real blow to the city,” Burkhardt said of the closing. “This (Stratacache’s move) is a real plus. It clearly puts us on to the curve.”
Burkhardt said he expected the company to move “150 to 200” jobs to Trotwood at least initially, but “up to 500” jobs over the next few years.
“That’s major for anybody,” Burkhardt said.
Silverman said the goal of brining in “a few hundred” jobs to Trotwood over the next few years “is a fair assessment.” But she emphasized that Trotwood will not be the Stratacache headquarters.
Stratacache will hold a ribbon-cutting Wednesday, and and will move to the city “as soon as they can get things structured,” Burkhardt said.
