There are significant issues effecting the Eastern Ohio region due to its strong but changing base as a manufacturing area. The manufacturing jobs in the US are at crisis and in the case rural OH, where they are between big cities and big industries and shippable locations, it has the potential to pull through. It has a lot going for it, but the world price competition for labor costs and pirated after market parts are also taking its toll as emerging nations move into swoop entire manufacturing sectors of various industries.

In Youngstown the new construction is 10:1 in square feet of new homes to commercial properties, which makes home values good for now and increases certain areas on the side of town where the middle class congregates, but also it hurts the urban flight and crime problems plaguing nearly all of America as Suburbs grow like lawns with ride on garden tractors.

In Youngstown they have 27 Industrial and office parks, 1 FTZ, 17 of which have rail service by CSX, and what is OHIO