Moving and Storage Business News

The News Review:

- Mayor Julian: ‘There’sa time that you fight’
- China Cuts Asia Imports as Korea, Singapore Lose Jobs (Update1)
- Eliza Wong and Jared Katzman
- Encore Presentation – We Were Warned: Out of Gas

Mayor Julian: ‘There’sa time that you fight’
Utica Observer Dispatch – Oct 21, 2007
 “We’re landlocked,” Julian said. “We do not get a bite of the apple like an 8-acre site, fairly square with access to a 32,000-car a day traffic flow; not many places do. And for us to turn around and say to somebody, ‘Yeah, we’re going to sell you that to put self storage up,’ is not an option. ” Pete Dalton, 27, said he understands some of Julian’s plans take time.  “People just need to be patient with him and know that what he’s trying to do doesn’t happen overnight,” said Dalton, who works at Partners Trust and lives in South Utica.  To his opponents, the only real question is what has Julian managed to finish? Councilman Meola says there aren’t many achievements to point out.  “There’s no project that really stands out,” Meola said…
“He did finish the project that Mayor Hanna started to get Utica National Insurance to come downtown. ” During Hanna’s administration, land was cleared where Utica National’s office is today on Lafayette Street.  Julian’s staff enticed the company to build downtown, and in 2004 the company did that. It was the first major construction project in downtown Utica in two decades.  Most recently, the city provided assistance to Indium Corp. so that it can expand its operations from a site on Lincoln Avenue to include another location at the Utica Business Park.  The Clinton-based company received approval for a $600,000 loan from the city that won’t have to be repaid as long as the firm can maintain 120 jobs at the two sites for five years.

China Cuts Asia Imports as Korea, Singapore Lose Jobs (Update1)
Bloomberg – Oct 21, 2007
8 percent in2008 from an estimated 7. 5 percent this year and sees weakerexpansion in the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan and South Korea. “China is moving up the supply chain,'' says T. Bond,chief Asia economist at Merrill Lynch & Co. “Theview that China produces labor-intensive goods but purchaseshigh-value-added goods from abroad may be roughly correct today,but it need not last forever.

Eliza Wong and Jared Katzman
New York Times – Oct 21, 2007
She is the daughter of Daisy Wong and York Wong of Alexandria, Va. The brides father retired as the manager of Sampan Cafe in Springfield, Va. Her mother is a senior accounting associate at Victory Van Corporation, a storage and moving company in Alexandria. Katzman, also 32, is the director for client relations in the New York office of Zinio, a company that republishes magazines on the Internet. He graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. He is a son of Donna E.

Encore Presentation – We Were Warned: Out of Gas
CNN International – Oct 21, 2007
SESNO: Category 5 Hurricane Steve slams ashore with winds of nearly 200 miles an hour. The death toll is modest, but the physical damage is breathtaking. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Storage tanks have been tipped over here and torn apart. SESNO: Especially oil refineries, storage facilities, and hundreds of offshore platforms badly damaged. Experts predict it will be months, years in some cases before refineries are repaired. Gasoline prices shoot up across the country. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We ain’t got no gas, food, or nothing! SESNO: panic-buying leads to long lines and fears of shortages…
But can it do more than buy us some time? (COMMERCIAL BREAK) SESNO: Fort McMurray, Alberta, lies in the frigid remoteness of northern Canada. (on camera): Big piece of land. (voice-over): But it is quickly moving front and center on the world energy stage. (on camera): These trucks are coming virtually all the time. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. SESNO (voice-over): It has been put on the map by these oil sands, 58,000 square miles of them, 174 billion barrels worth of recoverable oil, giving Canada, America’s quiet neighbor to the north, the second-largest oil reserves in the world, right behind Saudi Arabia. No pump jacks here, though, this is a mining operation, an enormous open pit whose deep, dark deposits are literally pay dirt.