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“Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh on Wednesday released the Syracuse Housing Strategy, which his office describes as a “multi-year framework for improving housing conditions in the City of Syracuse.”
The strategy calls for “additive new work that builds on major initiatives” currently underway. They include the Resurgent Neighborhoods Initiative, the East Adams neighborhood redevelopment, and the community grid vision plan, Walsh’s office said. It also includes programs like the Syracuse Land Bank and downtown-revitalization efforts.
Walsh’s office cites the strategy as indicating “almost 100% of the old way of doing community development will have to be shelved. Resistance to such change is to be expected. Without such change, Syracuse’s housing markets will not begin to truly recover nor get to a point where they are able to withstand the new and different demographic and other challenges headed Syracuse’s way.”
The 70-page plan recommends focusing the city’s housing resources on both stabilizing “distressed” neighborhoods to prevent further decline and investing in “middle” neighborhoods to leverage current and potential market demand for quality housing.
The Syracuse Housing Strategy proposes using a “cluster approach” to implement strategies in groupings of 30-50 contiguous city blocks with similar market conditions and neighborhood identities.
“The Syracuse Housing Strategy is a smart framework to accomplish the massive challenge of revitalizing the city’s housing stock. It presents interventions that will breathe new life into city neighborhoods,” Walsh contended in the announcement. “The strategy also recognizes we are doing a lot of things right already and encourages continued commitment to those neighborhood initiatives. It challenges us, though, to make difficult and disruptive choices to use the limited resources we have available in ways that will make more Syracuse neighborhoods attractive for new residents and private investment.”
The Syracuse Housing Strategy was developed based on significant community and stakeholder input in conjunction with the czb, a planning firm based in Bath, Maine.
The City’s department of neighborhood and business development will hold a community open house regarding the strategy on April 30 from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Northeast Community Center at 716 Hawley Ave. in Syracuse.”
I personally would never live in the City of Syracuse because it is too depressing with the poor architecture from the last 60 years, old ugly houses in disrepair, litter, overall blight, overgrown vegetation, junkyards, bordered up buildings, homeless people, and higher crime rates. If I had a couple billion dollars of play money I'd build up the city in a way to make it attractive enough so I'd be willing to live there. If no drastic changes occur in the way the city looks, or feels to make it less depressing.... people like me will choose to live elsewhere.
I personally would never live in the City of Syracuse because it is too depressing with the poor architecture from the last 60 years, old ugly houses in disrepair, litter, overall blight, overgrown vegetation, junkyards, bordered up buildings, homeless people, and higher crime rates. If I had a couple billion dollars of play money I'd build up the city in a way to make it attractive enough so I'd be willing to live there. If no drastic changes occur in the way the city looks, or feels to make it less depressing.... people like me will choose to live elsewhere.
Again, the city varies, just like most American cities and everyone does not want to live in Clay or the suburbs. There is plenty of nice architecture across the city as well. Do you go into the city much at all?
The city needed to do this years ago and if COR didn't have their issues, developments such as the Inner Harbor and Loguen Crossing just east of Downtown should have been in place already. They would provide housing that isn't just for or marketed to college students, like a lot of the newer housing in recent years have been.
Also, the city and area really needs to start considering more housing diversity in terms of ownership. Meaning, more condo, townhome, rowhome, co-op ownership versus just single family homes, as not everyone that wants to own and wants to have to deal with the extra maintenance costs. This should especially be considered given the 4 season weather in the area.
The Syracuse Housing Strategy Project set to begin work in 2025 in Tipp Hill(an outer West Side neighborhood that is historically Irish), Salt Springs(East Side, a predominantly black but diverse working/middle class neighborhood near LeMoyne College): https://cnycentral.com/news/local/th...-salt-springs#
“Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh on Wednesday released the Syracuse Housing Strategy, which his office describes as a “multi-year framework for improving housing conditions in the City of Syracuse.”
The strategy calls for “additive new work that builds on major initiatives” currently underway. They include the Resurgent Neighborhoods Initiative, the East Adams neighborhood redevelopment, and the community grid vision plan, Walsh’s office said. It also includes programs like the Syracuse Land Bank and downtown-revitalization efforts.
Walsh’s office cites the strategy as indicating “almost 100% of the old way of doing community development will have to be shelved. Resistance to such change is to be expected. Without such change, Syracuse’s housing markets will not begin to truly recover nor get to a point where they are able to withstand the new and different demographic and other challenges headed Syracuse’s way.”
The 70-page plan recommends focusing the city’s housing resources on both stabilizing “distressed” neighborhoods to prevent further decline and investing in “middle” neighborhoods to leverage current and potential market demand for quality housing.
The Syracuse Housing Strategy proposes using a “cluster approach” to implement strategies in groupings of 30-50 contiguous city blocks with similar market conditions and neighborhood identities.
“The Syracuse Housing Strategy is a smart framework to accomplish the massive challenge of revitalizing the city’s housing stock. It presents interventions that will breathe new life into city neighborhoods,” Walsh contended in the announcement. “The strategy also recognizes we are doing a lot of things right already and encourages continued commitment to those neighborhood initiatives. It challenges us, though, to make difficult and disruptive choices to use the limited resources we have available in ways that will make more Syracuse neighborhoods attractive for new residents and private investment.”
The Syracuse Housing Strategy was developed based on significant community and stakeholder input in conjunction with the czb, a planning firm based in Bath, Maine.
The City’s department of neighborhood and business development will hold a community open house regarding the strategy on April 30 from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Northeast Community Center at 716 Hawley Ave. in Syracuse.”
From what I've seen in social media from residents and patrons of the East Side near the historic African Methodist Episcopal Zion church property, they appear to like this design and hope for the people that live there are those from the community. It is near Downtown as well.
"A developer has dramatically shifted plans for what was initially proposed as Syracuse’s first new high-rise apartment building in five decades.
Instead, Chris Geiger’s Syracuse Gateway Apartments project on the city’s Near East Side would have a much bigger footprint if approved by the city. It’s a change driven by the project’s location next to a historic church building.
Geiger, who has developed multiple apartment complexes in the University Hill area, is acquiring several properties to build a 291-unit, seven-story apartment building with first-floor commercial tenants and a parking garage on more than half a city block along East Fayette Street.
Mayor Ben Walsh touted Geiger’s proposal during his State of the City address in January as a sign of the city’s progress and potential in developing much-needed housing. At the time, Geiger planned a 14-story structure with 300 apartments at Almond and East Fayette streets. Walsh said it was likely the city’s first high-rise apartment project in at least 50 years.
But the plan shifted over the past several months from one with considerable height to one with a substantial footprint because Geiger and city officials decided a tower was not a great fit for that area.
Directly adjacent to the original project site on East Fayette Street is the former home of the People’s AME Zion Church. Built in 1911, the church was the congregation’s home until the mid-1970s. The building is the oldest structure built for a Black congregation in Onondaga County.
The building fell into disrepair when the congregation moved to South Salina Street, but efforts to save it from demolition picked up steam this century. The church, which still owns it, has secured grant money and donations to get it stabilized, and has announced plans to eventually convert it into a café and culinary training center
The Syracuse Planning Commission will review the project’s site plan Tuesday after the city Landmark Preservation Board had a look earlier this month.
“We knew all along that the church was going to be potentially impacted by our project so we wanted to do what we could to recognize that and really integrate the church and our building into the fabric of the block,” said Jess Sudol, president of Passero Associates, the project’s architect.
In addition to cutting the new building’s height down, designers took steps to reduce the bulk of the building in the area where it wraps around the church and the XO Taco restaurant next door. While most of the building is seven stories, the top floor was removed for the portion along East Fayette Street. Paint colors were chosen to complement the church’s exterior, and the new building’s façade was moved farther back from the street than the other structures.
“We thought it was important that the church would stand proud of our building, especially with the bell tower being on the southwest corner, so that would really be visible,” Sudol said.
The Landmark Preservation Board, which doesn’t have the power to require changes to the project but makes recommendations to the planning commission, complimented the design but suggested some additional scaling back at the corner next to the church.
Neither church officials nor the owner of XO Taco returned messages seeking comment for this story.
Geiger’s plans submitted to the planning commission show a mix of studio, one-, two- and four-bedroom layouts. Sizes range from just under 500 square feet for studio units to almost 1,400 for the four-bedroom designs.
Geiger has said he hopes to complete the project by 2027. While he has not released anticipated rental rates, the developer said he will comply with the city’s zoning requirement that 12.5% of the units are priced to be affordable for people making no more than 80% of the city’s average median income.
In addition to seeking approval of a site plan, Geiger is asking the planning commission to OK combining six individual parcels with addresses on East Fayette and East Washington street into one property for the apartment building. Plans would include demolishing three structures: a former service station, a car wash and an office building."
Also, Onondaga County could spend nearly $300,000 on a study to revitalize CNY Regional Market: https://www.localsyr.com/news/local-...gional-market/ (could be good for a mixed use area that bridges NBT Bank Stadium with the Market, to create a stadium/regional market/transportation center district that is near Destiny USA, the Inner Harbor and Liverpool/Onondaga Lake Park)
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"Construction is expected to begin in the new few months on a series of luxury townhomes and single-family homes in a new development off Onondaga Road in the town of Onondaga.
The $5 million Woodridge Heights will be built in three phases on land off Onondaga Road in the Split Rock area of Onondaga, near Onondaga Community College, said Mark A. DeAngelis Jr., vice president and principal of Mark Antony Development and Mark Antony Homes.
In all, it will have 60 townhomes and 12-single family homes. The site plan has been approved by the town of Onondaga and construction is expected to begin this summer, he said.
The first phase of Woodridge Heights will have eight townhomes and eight single-family homes. The townhomes range from 1,600 to 2,400 square feet and can have two, three or more bedrooms. They will sell for between $450,000 to $700,000 depending on the size, he said. The single-family homes will start at about $600,000.
The development will have a homeowners’ association, and the fee for that will include lawn maintenance and snow removal, he said.
Demand is expected to be high for these homes, DeAngelis said.
“A lot of people in the western suburbs want to downsize and get out of their older, bigger homes,” DeAngelis said. “The townhomes offer them something a bit smaller and if they want to go south for the winter, they can leave and have their property maintained during the winter.”
Mark Antony Homes concentrates on building homes on the western side of Onondaga County and has built about 1,000 homes in the area."
Both are also not too far from Downtown to the west.
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