Construction on Nationwide Insurance’s new facility in San Antonio’s Westover Hills is set to begin, following a tree planting ceremony with San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro and Judge Nelson Wolff. The facility will be home to 800 new insurance jobs in San Antonio, for which the Columbus, Ohio-based company is currently hiring, including English-Spanish bilingual job applicants.
The company also announced grants from the Nationwide Insurance Foundation totaling $80,000 to four local charities. This includes $30,000 for the San Antonio Foodbank, $25,000 for the San Antonio Chapter of the American Red Cross, $10,000 for the Hispanic Religious Partnership for Community Health and $15,000 for SAMMinistries.
Officials said the 300,000 square foot state of the art facility will have a “college campus” feel and provide capacity for 2,000 employees, including about 1,000 current Nationwide employees in San Antonio. Nationwide will seek LEED certification for the facility, which will include a fitness center, cafeteria and landscaped courtyard area.
Company executives and community leaders planted a 15-foot tall cedar elm tree as a symbol of Nationwide’s future growth in San Antonio.
The company also provided cedar elm saplings to event guests and its 1,000 current employees in San Antonio for them to plant at their homes. Hundreds of trees currently growing on the site will also be preserved and incorporated into the building’s landscape design.
The new facility is scheduled for completion in mid 2012. The company is already hiring new employees, with plans to create a total of 800 new jobs over the next three years. The company previously announced plans to add these jobs in 2009.
Source: Nationwide Insurance
Was this article valuable?
Here are more articles you may enjoy.
GEICO Tops Progressive With Higher J.D. Power Scores 
US Judge Skeptical of Biden Overtime Pay Rule 
BlackSuit Cybercrime Gang Blamed in CDK Hack That Roiled Car Dealers 
As Rates Rise, Majority of Homeowners Say Insurance Industry Is in Crisis: Survey 
