When the news about Boeing planning to close up shop and leave Suffolk broke this week, it was easy to look at the announcement as the crest of a wave of closures related to the plan to shutter U.S. Joint Forces Command, whose Harbour View location employs 2,200 and has contracts with Boeing and other modeling and simulation entities around the area.

Despite the brave face worn by city leaders and the calm resolve they portray related to their intent to replace any JFCOM jobs that might be lost to its closure, it’s hard to imagine a short-term outcome without some degree of pain for Suffolk and those who are employed in the Harbour View technology corridor.

Boeing is, indeed, likely to be just one of the Defense Department contractors that will choose to save money and close up shop in Suffolk if JFCOM is no longer located right outside the back door.

But what we learned on Wednesday, just a day after the depressing Boeing announcement, was that things are not always as bad as they seem. The same industrial park that will be losing Boeing and its seven or so employees in the near future will soon gain a new tenant. ISHPI Information Technologies Inc. will take a lease of 31,000 square feet of office space and intends to employ more than 200 people during the next two years in its operation in support of the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense.

Of course, 200 jobs don’t come close to making up for 2,200 that could be lost. But judging purely on what we know will happen — that Boeing will leave and take seven jobs with it and that some change will take place at JFCOM — it’s not a bad start.

There have been some bad days recently for Suffolk’s Economic Development Department. Wednesday, however, was a very good one.