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Article from the Ithaca Times about cost of living downtown:

http://www.ithaca.com/news/downtown-...715fa66ef.html
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News report about a business incubator in downtown Ithaca:

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I'm not surprised by this bit of news (from the Ithaca Journal):
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Ithaca No. 1 in Peace Corps volunteers

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For the second consecutive year, Ithaca had the most Peace Corps volunteers per capita for a metropolitan area. Ithaca's 15 volunteers give its metropolitan area a ratio of 14.5 volunteers per 100,000 residents, according to the Peace Corps. There are 412 New Yorkers serving across the globe, and this year New York state ranked No. 2 overall in the nation for volunteers. California is No. 1 with 926 volunteers serving............
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http://www.ithacajournal.com/story/n...list/20450333/
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Hopefully this is an indication that Ithaca can attract more tech firms to the area (from the Ithaca Voice):

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Laser tech firm in Ithaca sold for $230 million

Ithaca, N.Y. — A laser technology firm based in Ithaca has been sold to a Massachusetts company for $230 million, the Massachusetts company announced in a press release Wednesday.

Ithaca’s BinOptics Corporation creates high-tech lasers out of the Cornell Business and Technology Park. It has now been sold to MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, of Lowell, Mass.

BinOpitics, which employes about 150 people, is expected to stay in Ithaca after the acquisition, according to Tom Schryver, executive director of the Center for Regional Economic Advancement at Cornell University.
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http://ithacavoice.com/2014/12/laser...d-230-million/
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Old Posted Dec 25, 2014, 1:02 AM
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A video put out by VisitIthaca tourism:

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I'm not surprised by the Peace Corps article either. Hopefully, BinOptics can expand in Ithaca and create more jobs.

I also like the Visit Ithaca video.
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I'm not surprised by the Peace Corps article either. Hopefully, BinOptics can expand in Ithaca and create more jobs.

I also like the Visit Ithaca video.
I think the idea of expansion is on the drawing board for BinOptics.

Visit Ithaca has put several videos out over the last few years.
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Ithaca makes another list. Not sure it matters, but some Ithacans take it seriously.
From the Ithaca Voice:

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Ithaca named 4th smartest city in America


By: JEFF STEIN
Ithaca, N.Y. — Ithaca was named the 4th smartest city in America in a new set of rankings released on Friday.
MarketWatch, a financial and business news site founded by CNBC’s Larry Kramer, put Ithaca on its top 10 list — with some caveats.

It noted, for instance, that despite high levels of education and health service workers, well-educated people in Ithaca tend to make less than their similarly-educated peers around the country.

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http://ithacavoice.com/2015/01/ithac...-city-america/
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A nice little video showing Ithaca & Tompkins County:

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v...type=3&theater

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A picture of Cornell & Collegetown neighborhood I found on Flickr:



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^Now that's a cool photo. That view will change quite a bit in the next five years...
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If you check it out on Flickr, click the original size...Yikes.
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An article from the Ithaca Voice regarding affordable housing in the area as it relates to student housing (good info):

http://ithacavoice.com/2015/01/despi...getting-worse/



An entry on the Ithacating blog which discusses some projects, and also student housing:

https://brancra.wordpress.com/2015/0...e-students-go/
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On a lighter note, here's a semi brush with fame for an Ithaca College grad (from the Ithaca Voice):

http://ithacavoice.com/2015/01/ithac...-delta-flight/

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A short video of the Ithaca Falls in winter:

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Here's a still photo of the frozen falls in the above video. A perspective of the size of the falls.



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Looks like there is some hope for the new Marriott Hotel being built:

http://centralny.twcnews.com/content...ithaca-closes/

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I guess the economy is doing OK in Ithaca, good employment numbers (from the Ithaca Voice):

http://ithacavoice.com/2015/01/job-n...itting-pretty/

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A Cornell/Ithaca institution is back in business (from the Cornell Sun newspaper):

http://cornellsun.com/blog/2015/01/2...k-in-20-years/

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The traffic issue in downtown comes to discussion again (from the Ithaca Journal):

Ending one-ways in downtown Ithaca stuck in traffic

David Hill, dhill@ithacajournal.com | @Ijdavidhill 12:19 a.m. EST February 1, 2015

The prospect of hotel patrons getting lost or holding up traffic has prompted the semi-decadal discussion of whether Aurora and Cayuga Streets can be returned to two-way traffic at the Commons. The answer: Not without making a lot of other changes, too.

City transportation engineer Tim Logue and Frank Nagy, the director of parking, briefed the city’s Planning and Development Board last week on downtown transportation and parking issues.

The context was city review of recently approved or under-review plans for major new or enlarged buildings on and near the Tuning Fork, the block immediately east of the Commons bounded by the utensil-shaped intersection of Aurora, State/Martin Luthe King Jr. Street, Seneca Street and Seneca Way.

Specifically, the Hilton Canopy hotel proposed for the block could see patrons driving down East Hill toward the Commons only to miss the hotel entrance then have to circle the commons or find some other way back to the entrance.

Meanwhile, a renovated and enlarged Carey Building, which formerly housed Mayer’s smoke shop and newsstand, is likely to draw more traffic, and the Marriott hotel under construction a block away will have a loading area off Aurora Street but parking in the adjacent Green Street garage, requiring a circle around the Commons or up to Prospect Street.

Logue drew on a 2001 study by a consultant in 2001 commissioned at the time of the Hilton Garden hotel and office building at Seneca and Tioga Streets. The study asked the same question. Going back to all two-way would relieve drivers of having to circle the Commons, which is surrounded by one-way streets: Cayuga on the west, Aurora on the east, Seneca north and Green south.

The answer: Aurora and Cayuga could be two-way, but without significant mitigation, such as adding left-turn lanes, which would in turn eat up 40 to 50 on-street parking spaces, traffic flow would be significantly slowed.

The 2001 study is being circulated among board members, and the idea could be resurrected. But Logue noted the idea comes up every few years and hasn’t gotten farther.

Perhaps small changes could be made. For instance, after the 2001 study, two blocks of Cayuga were returned to two-way traffic, which slowed southbound flow but is mitigated some by timed signals. Still, it’s not as simple as simply taking out the one-way signs and repainting pavement.

“You can’t do Aurora only or Caygua only,” Logue said. “They really work in a pair.”


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http://www.ithacajournal.com/story/n...ssed/22649251/

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