UP!

Good news is gracing my home-town paper today.  

"Most of the current boom is for multiunit residences - apartments and condos - plus commercial and infrastructure projects. Construction of single-family homes in the Bay Area, which almost stopped during the downturn, has begun to ramp up in the outer suburbs, but much more slowly.

Cranes in the city
Still, in San Francisco, the two dozen tall cranes on the skyline vividly illustrate how new high-rise construction is pervasive throughout the eastern part of the city.
"It's been a major turnaround," said Tim Donovan, head of San Francisco's Local 6 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. "We had 40 percent of our members out of work during the downturn, and had a reduction in work hours for our apprentices. Things started to come back about a year ago, and we hit total employment for our members three months ago."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Construction-and-hiring-rebounding-4415492.php#ixzz2PpJ6y25M