Even though it's approaching two years since we ended our seven-month experiment with living in Syracuse, I still check Syracuse.com on a regular basis, because I did kind of like the area (despite the godawful winter there) and I'm still interested to see what goes on there. Mainly I'm following the progress, such as it is, on Destiny USA, but I also feel a certain amount of kinship with Syracuse as an upstate New Yorker.
So, even while the economic news in Buffalo seems to continue marching along in its "bad news stories outnumbering the good news ones" way (although the ratio seems to be tilting slowly in the favor of the "good news stories"), I'm heartened to see that the economic climate in Syracuse is markedly improving.
Basically, in 2004 the Syracuse economy actually added over 3,000 jobs, with the added good news that since government jobs decreased in 2004, all of the added jobs are private-sector jobs. Even better is the fact that Syracuse's construction industry registered its best year, jobs-wise, in over a decade. Construction is one of those "leading indicators": building now tends to equal jobs later, so if the construction firms in Syracuse are gearing up to do a lot of building, it probably means some even better economic news to come.
Upstate New York: Stopping the bleeding, one city at a time.
The personal blog of author Kelly Sedinger, chronicling the adventures of one overalls-clad wanderer.
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