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[QUOTE="KellySyracuse, post: 4755900, member: 1644"]
Story about Chedy Hampson, it's archived so it's not behind the paywall.

[URL='http://archive.today/ambMJ']He sold his company for millions. Now he can play a new game in his old Syracuse neighborhood[/URL]

"In August 2022, Hampson sold the company to the online auction site eBay for $295 million. Five months later, he announced he would leave the company.

Now, his Facebook bio says he works at “community-minded investor and philanthropist.”

Hampson calls what he is doing “sabbatical.” He is connecting with friends and family and circling in a world of Central New Yorkers who are already using their positions to leverage their business profits into community investments.

That includes Meg O’Connell, of the Allyn Foundation and Blueprint 15, the initiative to rebuild the neighborhood of outdated public housing near the Interstate 81 viaduct. It also includes Ryan and Leigh Ann Benz, who opened Oh My Darling restaurant and a 1920s-style “speakeasy” bar, The Fitz, on Salina Street. Benz is one of four partners [URL='https://www.syracuse.com/business/2021/08/how-a-former-trumpet-player-who-came-home-is-leading-the-charge-to-reimagine-shoppingtown.html']redeveloping the old Shoppingtown Mall.[/URL]

Hampson realizes he can’t do much alone. And he says he has a lot to learn about how neighborhoods declined and what can be done to bring them back."
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