Fundraising for Onondaga County’s Inner Harbor aquarium project is a few million dollars short of its goal, Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon said Wednesday, but construction progress is ahead of where he expected it.
Speaking at a press conference on a number of topics, McMahon said the fundraising is “a little less than [$3 million short] with our commitments,” but added that he’s confident the fundraising totals will be exceeded. As of this spring, the project was expected to cost about $100 million, with $85 million in funding already approved. In March, the county legislature authorized the use of private donations for the project.
Some of that money will come out of the Honeywell deal in which Honeywell gives Onondaga County $312,000 per year. The rest of it will be taken from a bank account that was for the already funded loop the lake trail project…