Syracuse, N.Y. – Construction began on the first new apartment buildings for the East Adams Neighborhood transformation project on Wednesday. It’s a $102 million development to replace the public housing units demolished at McKinney Manor.
It’s the first of 11 phases in the $1 billion neighborhood transformation near downtown. Throughout the rest of the project, developers will tear down almost 700 public housing units along I-81 and replace them with over 1,300 new mixed-income units.
Phase 1 will create a four-story building, a three-story building and a string of townhomes, according to Allyson Carpenter, vice president of the development company McCormack Baron Salazar…