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Troy Construction Jobs Up, National Study Finds

Employment increased 10 percent in Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills area, according to Associated General Contractors of America.

A national study released Monday named Troy as one of the top metro areas in the country to see an increase in construction employment jobs from August 2010 to August 2011.

The study, which was conducted by the Associated General Contractors of America by analyzing federal employment data, found employment in construction rose about 10 percent — or 3,800 new jobs — during the past year in the Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills area.

Troy Assistant Mark Miller, who oversees economic development services in the city, said Monday that there has been an increase in residential and business construction in Troy in the last year. Matt Gibb, deputy executive and head of economic development for Oakland County, that Troy issued permits for construction of 200 new homes by July 2011.

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"Michigan is leading the way in job creation, so we hope that continues here in Troy," Miller said Monday.

The study found construction employment in the state is up 10 percent, or about 13,300 jobs in the past year, with the largest gains in the Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills area, followed by about 3,400 new jobs in the Detroit-Livonia-Dearborn area. The study didn't break down individual statistics for Troy.

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The study identified the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale area as the area with the largest loss of construction jobs at about 7,000.

"The construction market is caught between increases in private sector demand and even larger decreases in public sector construction investments," Ken Simonson, the association's chief economist, said in a news release.

Private sector spending on construction has grown by about 5.5 percent since July 2010, Simonson said, while public sector demand declined about 8.8 percent during the same time.

"Construction employment continues to be stuck in a pattern where there are just as many hot spots as there are slow spots," he said.


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