What is going on at Red Wings arena site?

[Gistok]

A lot of skilled and unskilled tradesmen left metro Detroit back during the foreclosure meltdown a few years ago, and they are likely never coming back. So now that there is a construction boom, there's not enough folks to fill the jobs. I have a buddy who has his own rough carpentry business, and he's been looking for over a year to hire 2 workers [[mainly south Macomb/Oakland area work).... and he's not had any luck. [[PM me if you know anyone... ).

This may only get worse if construction increases in the metro area....

[erikd]

A lot of skilled and unskilled tradesmen left metro Detroit back during the foreclosure meltdown a few years ago, and they are likely never coming back. So now that there is a construction boom, there's not enough folks to fill the jobs. I have a buddy who has his own rough carpentry business, and he's been looking for over a year to hire 2 workers [[mainly south Macomb/Oakland area work).... and he's not had any luck. [[PM me if you know anyone... ).

This may only get worse if construction increases in the metro area....

My cousin also has a small carpentry business, and he has told me the exact same story. A lot of the skilled trades people left during the recession, and there is a huge shortage of skilled construction labor in metro Detroit now. At this point, he is happy if he can just get somebody to show up every day and hold a hammer. The recession really discouraged a lot of young people in this region from going into the trades.