A Syracuse apartment complex that was filled with code violations and criminal activity is on the road to a rebirth. And investors hope it can elevate the whole neighborhood.
A walk around one of the former Ballentyne Apartments in the city’s valley section, with The Cortile Spokesperson Abraham Goldstein, shed light on what new downstate investors faced. “45% of the apartments were full of stuff, which people left behind.” In some cases, that garbage sat around a year or longer as apartments sat vacant. “It was rotten, there was really bad situation. To get that cleaned up was a big deal, a big task.”
Goldstein added says that’s on top of plumbing problems, broken windows and squatters that took months to evict…