Located in Licking County, 35 miles east of Columbus, this city of 8,500 is a family-friendly small town with big ideas. Primed for economic growth, the city offers both local and county incentive programs, a number of sites ready for development, a Community Reinvestment Area, and a business-friendly government.

• Central Ohio Aerospace and Technology Center A 350-acre high-tech business campus developed and managed by the Heath-Newark-Licking County Port Authority.

• The Davis Shai House The city's cultural and historic showplace, this all-brick, Gothic Revival home has an architectural style attributed locally to Andrew Jackson Downing, a nationally prominent landscape architect.
• The Great Circle Earthworks Formerly known as Moundbuilders State Memorial, this Earthworks is nearly 1,200 feet in diameter, and was used as a ceremonial center by the Hopewell Culture approximately 2,000 years ago.

• The City Water Park This state-of-the-art complex features a diving tank; an Olympic pool; a learning tank; diving boards; a  speed slide; a high water slide; two drop slides; a  lazy river; and a 5,500sq. ft. water playground with an interactive play unit, tumble buckets, water cannons, and a "spray ground."