I went to school at Cornell, which isn't too far from the town in the article. There are dozens of other towns like this in central New York, and the larger ci

I went to school at Cornell, which isn't too far from the town in the article. There are dozens of other towns like this in central New York, and the larger cities like Rochester, Syracuse, Binghamton, and Elmira aren't doing that well either. It's great to see someone trying to stop what feels like inevitable decline. EDIT: It's also nice to see him running it as a business, rather than a creepy charity case as happened in Aurora, NY: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora,_Cayuga_County,_New_York#Changes_since_2000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora,_Cayuga_County,_New_York...