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Message: [QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 3223479, member: 716"] I do. #2 is an existing employer consolidating space from elsewhere in the city (think you and I might've discussed this off-line earlier in the year). #5 is fairly minor but really exciting: St. Paul's thinks that it can better carry out its mission by playing the real estate game a bit and that creating affordable housing downtown (within quick non-driving distance of thousands of jobs and in a neighborhood with mainly expensive housing) is a way to do that. So they're creating some very cool living spaces in vacant portions of their Montgomery Street campus. 200 Maple is a deteriorated but visible old building. Investment continues to push east and this has the potential to be an anchor for the neighborhood. These are first-time developers who have a wealth of experience. I'm very excited for them and the project. Salina 1st...we'll see. There's the potential for some synergy between this and Syracuse Surge. Everything I've heard about the project, which has been in the works for years, is a little sketchy. But the design is strong and any decent development (especially one that would create housing and manufacturing) in the dead zone just south of downtown will be great for the city and area. We need to activate neighborhoods around the core; this crater around the center city is holding downtown back. There's also yet another proposal to develop the ground floor of the parking garage in the 300 block of South Warren Street. The YMCA was very close to moving their forward-facing operations there (new building on the corner of South Warren and East Fayette, big gym with storefront windows on the first level of the garage) a few years back but were concerned about managing a project of that scale, IIRC. This will be a child-care facility. Hugely needed in the neighborhood, the Federal Building has a crazy waitlist and I don't know of any other big operations. [/QUOTE]

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