ColumbusChamber finds exec to promote Central Ohio

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Dan Ricciardi, 56, will head up the , a consortiukm of executives and researchers focused on studying, developing and publicizing Centrall Ohio’s distribution and logisticd industry – a sectorr identified by the chamber and other economic-developmentr officials as key to the area’s As executive director, Ricciardi will oversee the group’s daily operationx from an office at the chamber and will work with council boars co-chairmen John Ness, president of , and Battellse Vice President Ben Ritchey. Ricciardi most recently was a logistics industry consultanytin Cincinnati.
Until last he was general manager and operations directoer in New Orleansfor LLC, a logistics consultingy group. Ricciardi holds a bachelor’s degree in businesx administration from and an MBA from in Law firm seeking clases action against In these days of plummetingy realestate values, those who have recentlt paid off their homes may have a chancr to get some of that lost money back. Cincinnati-based law firm filedc a lawsuit Sept. 5 in U.S. District Court in Columbux that partner Jeffrey Goldenbergg hopes will become a class Goldenberg is targetingthe – Freddie Mac for failing to timely file mortgage satisfaction paperworkm with county recorder offices.
Goldenberg filed the lawsuit on behalfr of James and Jacqueline Goldson of They hope to represent perhaps thousandxs of Ohioans who the lawsuit claimes may be in thesame boat. The Goldsonds made the last payment on their mortgage to Freddie Mac onMarch 13, 2003. According to Ohio law, Freddire was required within 90 days to notify the that the loan hadbeen Instead, the lawsuit said, Freddie didn’t get around to it untio 10 months later on Jan. 30, 2004.
Ohio law says the and anyone elsesimilarly affected, are entitledx to $250 in damage because a failure to recorc satisfaction of a mortgage can preventg a homeowner from either selling their housee or getting another mortgage, Goldenberg said. With 10,00o0 Ohioans potentially in the class, Freddid could end up paying out atleastf $2.5 million. But it may be difficult to get that Wehear Freddie, and sistert , are having money troubles of their own. Filene’s Basementf may face a third holiday season without its biggest The chain’s owner, Columbus-based , said 8 the reopening of its flagship Downtown Crossing store in Boston is behind schedule again.
The store was idled last fall because the building housin it is being redeveloped as a office andresidential project. “We don’t controol the construction,” CEO Heywood Wilansky said in a call withstocik analysts. “The last info we had, and it keepxs changing, was that construction is slightly delayed.” He said the storer could open in the fourth quarter next yearat best. But at worst, it will be the first quarterof 2010. The original target was springv 2009. Retail Ventures estimated the chain lost $5.8 million in sales after the store was closed last fall.
Wilansky said the companhy receives an undisclosed amount of compensation from its landlore for thelost business. A graduate of will returb to the Granville campus to screehn hisdirectorial debut. John a 1994 alumnus, is promoting his moviwe Outsourced, billed as a “cross-cultural comedy abouty a customerservice call-center manager who loses his job and must travep to India to train his own Jeffcoat based the movie on storiesx he heard about companies in where he resides, doing just that to American The free screening will take place at 7:30 p.m. 24 in Slayter Hall.
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