Economic Comment on Youngstown, OH
In Youngstown we saw the city of Boardman growing middle class mixed race area with newer homes and the downtown and adjacent area appeared to be poor black, but not crime ridden, people there were very nice and hard working family folks. If you begin to study and look at the projects around the Youngstown area it is easy to get excited about the future seeing as they are pro-active and smart about economic growth and about their place in the world between Pittsburgh and Akron.
The coolest and most aggressive project was out at the airport where we witnessed the new 500 plus acre business park and mostly all manufacturing businesses-JOBS. And by the way Mr. Legislature, don't tell me you are going to make more jobs by standing on the podium and making more laws. The only way to make more jobs is to control-alt-delete more laws. If you can't do the three finger salute, you are no Boy Scout in my book.
http://www.RegionalChamber.com
In Youngstown, they are copying the Columbus laid-off executive theory that everyone needs services to trade their money back for the no time lifestyle, yet they have not figured out yet that everyone else in their neighborhood is broke too. They think that only they are laid off, but sitting on a pile of gold and that people need concierge services.
In Youngstown a new company has started to try this dying concept to serve the middle class in an area unaccustomed to such wonderful service, we checked out American Concierge and Errand Service which was starting out in the middle class growing area of Boardman south of Youngstown offering Corporate event planning, document delivery, onsite lunch, dry cleaning pick-up and deliver and no car or auto services yet, which I thought was the most requested service of corporate American employees, even in an area with 50 car washes in their local phone book for the three country area.
Also we noticed new service companies moving in like Cintas who was able to take advantage of the federal Trade Zone number 188 and build a 24,000 square foot building in a proactive recruitment by the regional chamber of commerce and River View Investment Corporation and Economic Development Association. This will provide 28 employees and lots of vehicles for us to wash no doubt. When this type of growth is added to the area along with Delphi in Warren and GM Plant in nearby Lordstown both with 7000 employees each still after both having been previously downsized.
GM re-expanding with the Cobalt Car Project and Delphi, which had laid off 3000, which you probably read in the WSJ. In tight times things like the FTZ and aggressive recruitment even if only little wins of 25 new jobs help uplift cities especially after a tough winter and uncertain goal attainment of 15 million cars to be sold in 2003. After coming off a 16.8 million and 17.1 million cars sold years prior, which saved the areas butt and American consumer spending numbers to boot. But when companies like Delphi lays off the 3000 you also lose another 3000 in smaller companies, which manufacture. Luckily there is a port straight up the HWY 11 in OH from Youngstown at Ashtabula, with a HWY and Rail right to it. So when things come back they do so first where there is proper supporting infrastructure. In the last decade the manufacturing of the Greater Youngstown MSA, was about 6000 job losses in manufacturing, 3000 in wholesale parts. But services? Yes, ah ha, services I tell you, 13,000 jobs created there, thank you very much, love to see those numbers since it helps small service businesses, which are the fastest growing and most stable sector in OH now.
Youngstown area is trying to hold onto their manufacturing sector while developing the retail and service sectors to protect them from the future trends. It appears although some of the things they are trying will indeed work, others will not. But it is not easy to go from 35 plus percent manufacturing jobs to a service and retail based economy over night, they are working hard to win during the transition.
The coolest and most aggressive project was out at the airport where we witnessed the new 500 plus acre business park and mostly all manufacturing businesses-JOBS. And by the way Mr. Legislature, don't tell me you are going to make more jobs by standing on the podium and making more laws. The only way to make more jobs is to control-alt-delete more laws. If you can't do the three finger salute, you are no Boy Scout in my book.
http://www.RegionalChamber.com
In Youngstown, they are copying the Columbus laid-off executive theory that everyone needs services to trade their money back for the no time lifestyle, yet they have not figured out yet that everyone else in their neighborhood is broke too. They think that only they are laid off, but sitting on a pile of gold and that people need concierge services.
In Youngstown a new company has started to try this dying concept to serve the middle class in an area unaccustomed to such wonderful service, we checked out American Concierge and Errand Service which was starting out in the middle class growing area of Boardman south of Youngstown offering Corporate event planning, document delivery, onsite lunch, dry cleaning pick-up and deliver and no car or auto services yet, which I thought was the most requested service of corporate American employees, even in an area with 50 car washes in their local phone book for the three country area.
Also we noticed new service companies moving in like Cintas who was able to take advantage of the federal Trade Zone number 188 and build a 24,000 square foot building in a proactive recruitment by the regional chamber of commerce and River View Investment Corporation and Economic Development Association. This will provide 28 employees and lots of vehicles for us to wash no doubt. When this type of growth is added to the area along with Delphi in Warren and GM Plant in nearby Lordstown both with 7000 employees each still after both having been previously downsized.
GM re-expanding with the Cobalt Car Project and Delphi, which had laid off 3000, which you probably read in the WSJ. In tight times things like the FTZ and aggressive recruitment even if only little wins of 25 new jobs help uplift cities especially after a tough winter and uncertain goal attainment of 15 million cars to be sold in 2003. After coming off a 16.8 million and 17.1 million cars sold years prior, which saved the areas butt and American consumer spending numbers to boot. But when companies like Delphi lays off the 3000 you also lose another 3000 in smaller companies, which manufacture. Luckily there is a port straight up the HWY 11 in OH from Youngstown at Ashtabula, with a HWY and Rail right to it. So when things come back they do so first where there is proper supporting infrastructure. In the last decade the manufacturing of the Greater Youngstown MSA, was about 6000 job losses in manufacturing, 3000 in wholesale parts. But services? Yes, ah ha, services I tell you, 13,000 jobs created there, thank you very much, love to see those numbers since it helps small service businesses, which are the fastest growing and most stable sector in OH now.
Youngstown area is trying to hold onto their manufacturing sector while developing the retail and service sectors to protect them from the future trends. It appears although some of the things they are trying will indeed work, others will not. But it is not easy to go from 35 plus percent manufacturing jobs to a service and retail based economy over night, they are working hard to win during the transition.
postato da mario @ 04:14
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