Yeah, no kidding. Three very solid, meaningful pieces of good news. The Genesys project sounds particularly impactful. That's some serious potential for jobs, right there. There are only two other projects planned in the state at the moment that get up to those levels of potential jobs, and that's the Detroit Medical Center expansion and the Detroit River International Crossing.
BTW, I've envy what's been going on at Bishop over the past decade. Whoever saw Bishop's potential and positioned it for growth way back in deserves some major kudos. Here at Capital Region International in Lansing, we just got through posting our 6th consecutive year of passenger decline, though, for the first time in years it was a single percent drop (3.2% drop for 2010 after a 38% drop over 2009). We've had a 61% drop in passengers since 2000. And, after many good years for cargo, we've had a percipitous drop when the national recession hit in 2008, though, that slowed to in the last year (2.4% drop for 2010, which followed a 21% drop in 2009)
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