Comprehensive plans for the city of Syracuse........

[justflow1983]

Definitely, any of my classmates who I showed around the area really ended up liking it very much, enough so that they would explicitly say things like "wow, syracuse is way nicer than i expected!" I was just calling up the fact that its up to the city to control its peception.

[bellafinzi]

Originally Posted by justflow1983

Find the $500 million that a new skyline will cost and I will be fully behind it. I support it in theory, but without an economy to support that kind of thing, its just a black hole. Things like cleaning up Oakwood like beckyhuggs suggested will go a long way for a lot less.

Show me one city that built the buildings first, then started rolling again. Usually, the economy and culture recovers first, then people start building to serve the need for space and amenties. Even improved transit would help people get to jobs in downtown, increasing demand for offices and spurring investment (ie construction). You have to nurture growth, not bang on something that pretends it happened.

Here's what I'd do to build up the Syracuse skyline. Every development project that presents itself, the city gives incentives to the developer to build it higher with more floors for mixed-use like apartments, condos etc. Which is what the city should do with the proposed convention center hotel. Instead of accepting the 8 story hotel that the developer plans to build, make incentives for it to be 25 stories high.

I believe Syracuse should plan and use existing projects that come along to make their downtown and skyline more appealing.

[jrice]

Originally Posted by ckhthankgod

Exactly, but I wonder if the leadership has enough guts to approach such companies.

I dont know if they lack the guts but I do know they lack the vision

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by jrice

I dont know if they lack the guts but I do know they lack the vision

It's probably both....