My friend, colleague and co-author of this blog Angela Newman – who recently started a local theater blog you should be reading – asks about twice a month when the company's moving downtown. Me, I'm pessimistic, even though our boss almost jumps out of his shoes every time he overhears the conversation.

Of course, I'd love for us to be downtown – not only for the convenience of being downtown, but to be part of a revival down there.

Sean Kirst has a column today about a Syracuse University student who grew up in LaFayette and envisions wonderful things for downtown Syracuse. Better yet, Jason Evans is an architecture student at SU, which puts him in a great position for this vision – twice.

First off, Evans is actually learning a business in which he could design the next great thing downtown. Secondly, the school he attends moved last year into a former furniture warehouse that was sitting around on West Fayette Street about two blocks from Armory Square. Incidentally, if you want to see the Warehouse, it's part of the th3 art open, which takes place tomorrow and then goes on Hiatus until February.

Kirst's piece on Evans comes barely a week after engineering firm O'Brien & Gere said they were moving 330 employees downtown and First Niagara Bank followed up by saying they're moving 65 people into a new downtown building early next year.

If you're thinking about taking your business downtown, now's the time.