Not too many people want to stay afterward,especially the entrepenurial types that feel condescended by having to live in Ithaca. As much as I'd love to move home, the reality is that there is a very limited job market that pays any money there unless you want to work at Cornell or IC. This is the same scenario that plays out in most college towns, not just Ithaca. I agree that there needs to be High Tech jobs and that the presence of Cornell should support that, but at some point, most of these companies want to be in a place with a deeper labor pool and not be stuck in a place whose airport has one permanent airline (for the time being) and one airline that might not be ther in 6 months or a year as their case moves through bankruptcy court.
The runway was lengthened a bit, but it still doesn't generate enough traffic for any big jets. There are actually 2 airlines: US Air and Northwest (both going bankrupt? ). Funny you should mention Mohawk, my Uncle use to work for them many years ago. That airline was merges with others and eventually became US Air.
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But the next time that Northwest cuts back, Ithaca will be the first to go, just like with Continential on their multiple attempts to serve the Ithaca area. I still thought that Ithaca, Elmira, and Binghamton should have combined into one big airport that would have actual service.
I read that Northwest is actually doing better than expected on the Ithaca routes. Who knows, maybe someone else might get interested too. I think the 3 cities joining to make one airport would have been feasable some time ago, but there's a lot of infrastructure in place for the 3 cities and their airports, and building one from scratch might be cost prohibitive. Not sure all three together could generate enough money for a whole new airport. Besides, there's a lot of local pride involved too.
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Ithaca isn't growing fast enough to support 2 12 to 14 screen mainstream first run theaters. Now if this works out, maybe they can turn Fall Creek into a dollar theater and expand the gym in Center Ithaca inth the Cinemopolis location.
I read that Northwest is actually doing better than expected on the Ithaca routes. Who knows, maybe someone else might get interested too. I think the 3 cities joining to make one airport would have been feasable some time ago, but there's a lot of infrastructure in place for the 3 cities and their airports, and building one from scratch might be cost prohibitive. Not sure all three together could generate enough money for a whole new airport. Besides, there's a lot of local pride involved too.
There was s study back in the 70's about this and occassionally it's brought up, but you're right, since Ithaca got a new terminal and both Binghamton and ELmira renovated their terminals in the 90's it's gonna be a while, plus you're right about the egos involved.
Ithaca isn't growing fast enough to support 2 12 to 14 screen mainstream first run theaters. Now if this works out, maybe they can turn Fall Creek into a dollar theater and expand the gym in Center Ithaca inth the Cinemopolis location.
Works for me, but I hope it won't affect the tax abatements for the project. If it does, there could be a problem since a moritorium has been set on any tax abatements for the next 6 months. And you know in Ithaca development is 3 steps forward and 2 back.
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Sad news for an Ithaca neighbor. The city od Cortland (the other half of the Ithaca/Cortlan MSA) lost an historic landmark building to fire yesterday. Here's an article with pics:
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