Latest reporting from the Business desk.
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Beignets & Brew, a fast-growing New Orleans-style beignet and coffee chain, is opening its first Ohio location at 2495 Hilliard Rome Rd. in Hilliard, with hiring already underway though no opening date has been set.
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Pickleball Kingdom, a national indoor pickleball franchise, plans to open a 36,000-square-foot, 15-court facility at 4500 Britton Pkwy. in Hilliard in late August 2026, nearly tripling the area's dedicated indoor court count.
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Sutphen Corporation, the nation's oldest family-owned fire apparatus manufacturer, marked 136 years of continuous operation with its Hilliard plant remaining a key production hub for custom emergency vehicles serving central Ohio fire departments.
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Bagels & Jam Co., a family-run shop co-owned by Sunny Muheisen and pastry chef Abdul Jamhour, soft-opened July 16 at 4465 Cemetery Road in Hilliard, bringing New Jersey-style bagels to the west side.
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Coffee Connections of Hilliard has reopened as a pop-up in the basement of Cornerstone Christian Fellowship at 4066 Main St., two blocks from the storefront it was forced to leave in June after city inspectors deemed the century-old building's floor unsafe.
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Four restaurants at Hilliard's TruePointe development — Drunch, Medley Kitchen, Old Scratch Pizza and Smoked Lick BBQ — have filed for Sunday liquor sales permits on the Tuesday, Nov. 3 Franklin County General Election ballot, with precinct 2-D voters deciding each question.