Syracuse China plant to be demolished....

Making pottery at Syracuse China, 1910

..to provide storage space for demolition equipment. 

As Upstate New York's economy continues to swirl down the high tax drain, business has been good for demolition contractors.  Syracuse China, manufacturing high end pottery since 1871, laid off its last 275 workers and shut down in 2008.  Today we learn that the china plant has been purchased and will be demolished.  In an ironic twist, the site has been purchased by a Utica based demolition contractor, Ritter & Paratore, to run its growing demolition business!

Readers may remember Ritter & Paratore, as they were called in to remove another decaying Upstate industrial plant last year.  That building, originally the National Brewery,  collapsed onto I-81, blocking traffic for weeks.  

Removing collapsed CNY industrial  infrastructure, 2010

Perhaps the good folks at Ritter & Paratore could donate a small area in their new facility for the multi-million dollar Cuomo/Duffy "economic development council."  After all, demolition is where the action is.