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Table A-4: Sectors With Strong Regional Growth that Underperformed <br />Locally <br />Proportional <br />Differential <br />1992 S.L. <br />SIC Sector <br />Shift <br />Shift <br />Employment. <br />�8700 Engineenng and management services <br />94.6% <br />-124.8% <br />5700 Furniture and homefumishings stores <br />37.1% <br />650! <br />7300 Business services <br />-30.9% <br />4f9 <br />33.6% <br />_1,3% <br />2.384 <br />5000 Wholesale trade - durable goods <br />18.8% <br />-38.3% <br />1700 Special trade contractors <br />6.4 % <br />3.243 <br />5400 <br />-3.4 i; <br />2.191 <br />Food stores <br />5.4% <br />-66.5% <br />9381 <br />7600 Miscellaneous repair services <br />4.6% <br />2800 Chemicals and allied products <br />-61.7% <br />452 <br />i <br />2.4% <br />-25.9% <br />259 <br />In particular, the City should consider targeting two of these sectors for study as potential <br />attraction candidates. Furniture and home furnishings stores and wholesale trade -durable <br />goods are two sectors that were growing in the region, and appear to fit well with San <br />Leandro's location attributes. Given San Leandro's strength in manv other comparison <br />shopping categories of retail goods, it is surprising that the City showed such a laree <br />negative differential shift in furniture and home furnishings stores. Also, with yen strons <br />growth in trucking and warehousing, which is an important support service for wholesale <br />trade. it is unfortunate that the City did not capture greater proportions of the increase in <br />regional durable goods wholesale trade activity. These are two sectors which could be <br />examined in more detail to determine if there are steps that the Ciry could take to address <br />what may be a lost opportunity for business attraction in growing regional sectors. <br />79 <br />