The surprising news that Syracuse was in
the top 10 of 337 metropolitan areas in the nation for added construction jobs
during the past year seems at variance with the otherwise bleak economic
picture in Upstate New York. But the page one story in the Syracuse Post Standard reported just that - saying
it was the result of adding just 300 construction jobs between February 2009
and February 2010.
The paper reported that "Meds and Eds"
were the primary reason for the increase, as hospital and college expansion continued
at a significant pace in the Central
New York city. At the
same time, some 230 other metro areas in the country saw double-digit declines
in construction employment, according to an analysis of statistics reported by
the U.S. Department of Labor
Albany and Ithaca also made the top 10 list by adding 200 and 100
new construction jobs last year, respectively. In many former boom regions of the
country the picture was much different, with Houston losing 25,500 constructions jobs.
See www.syracuse.com
for the full story.
