What has changed in recent years is that PA is now attracting industrial development in industries that rely on access to cheap natural gas.
Shell is nearing completion of a large polyethylene manufacturing plant on the Ohio River just outside of Pittsburgh. I believe this is the largest private capital investment in the history of Pennsylvania.
In recent weeks there’s been an announcement that ExxonMobil is looking to construct a similar plant right downriver in Pennsylvania, West Virginia or Ohio. There are strong rumors that an orange-haired public official who lives in a large white house in Washington DC is going to be the keynote speaker at a groundbreaking ceremony for the new project in the weeks leading up to the 2020 election. :-)
Yep the same could be happening in NY. Instead upstate is being depopulated.
“ Shell is nearing completion of a large polyethylene manufacturing plant on the Ohio River just outside of Pittsburgh.”
Yes...a,”cracker” factory for the “fracking” gas. It will be a boon to the area...and the nation.