In the aftermath of the 1908 Revolution, the province of Aleppo saw a rapid succession of governors. An important, but challenging posting, the province centered on a city that was a bustling commercial center surrounded by fertile plains extending to its north and east. In the west, mountains provided ecological diversity for varied crop production, but also posed an obstacle to more robust infrastructure connecting the city with its closest port in Iskenderun. To the east, marginal lands suitable for dry farming bordered arid scrub pastures where pastoralists held sway. In this linchpin of a province, which facilitating flows between Anatolia and provinces further south, the final decades of the nineteenth century and the first few years of the twentieth had seen local elites consolidate their power through their control of key posts and offices within the provincial administration. Thus, reform-minded governors intent on expanding infrastructure and boosting the regional economy as well as the reach and influence of the centralizing state found themselves facing a myriad of challenges. Yet in-depth research into the dynamics of this state of affairs in Aleppo is largely lacking in the historiography. Using documents from Ottoman, French, and British archives and libraries, this paper seeks to provide perspective on this period by focusing on a series of reports sent by Aleppo’s governors to the central government in the years immediately after the 1908 revolution. In the face of environmental challenges and daunting political dynamics, the paper argues that they prioritized carving out areas of national economic sovereignty and expanding the province’s infrastructure. These reports conveyed both their assessment of the province’s possibilities for development as well as their critiques about the current condition of its infrastructure and administration. Detailing the state of the region’s roads, railroads, schools, and bridges, exploring the possibilities for hydroelectric power and swamp drainage, and issuing proposals to beef up the province’s security and root out corruption, their observations and proposals provide insight not only into how the empire’s project of state centralization had been taken advantage of by local elites, but also how these governors conceived of their roles as representatives of the new constitutional government and intermediaries vis-à-vis the local population. Some were more intent than others on demonstrating to the province’s population that they intended to pursue the ideals of the revolution as they conceived them, which in turn impacted how much they were able to accomplish.