On 5/16/07, Rick Womer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was at the U of R from 1970 to 1978. Since then, a > lot of highways have sprouted, but the skyline is > =exactly= the same, and the center of downtown has > gone from drowsy to comatose. In the same 29 years > the skyline of Philly has changed radically, even > though this place isn't the center of the employment > universe, either. Kodak's meltdown is certainly > responsible, but there must also have been some > failure of civic leadership. >
I'm sure by the time Kodak started to tank, it was too late for the powers that be to do much about Rochester's demise. I know it's easy to say in hindsight, but there should have been major efforts to diversify the industrial or financial base while Kodak was still healthy. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
