Not true. SU paid for the design study on it and as the letter from the university shows, was very interested in the project. No where does the university thank Miner for vetoing it or express agreement or relief she did so.
Not even the SUNY system knew about these plans except that corrupt President of Upstate who was run out of there for shady Shyt. The veterans administration owned land right in the middle of that footprint and there was no way in hell you will throw them off their land. Then they would have needed court orders to throw off the other private businesses who owned buildings on the footprint which includes Smith Restaurant Supplies.
By what you write in your posts you truly know very little of what really went down. Wipe those tears away as the new stadium you wanted there was never going to happen.
Nobody is going to put that type of stuff in writing...Sheesh.
Cuomo isn't in hot water yet, he is just the bankroll who will claim he had no knowledge of any of it.
Since the deal had nothing to do with the SUNY system or VA, of course they were not involved. The county would own it...a private enterprise would run it, and SU is the tenant. Smith Restaurant supplies is well outside the footprint of this one proposed site. It's on the other side of 81. Your statement about it makes 0 sense.
The the letter from SU to Miner was obviously a sham.
Dude Upstate SUNY owned that land and I worked on that for 6 weeks and it too sits in the footprint.
You're right, DeFran was the biggest obstacle back then. But you're dead wrong on the banks before the 2008 market crash. After 2008, the banks didn't want to loan $ for any commercial enterprise. Anywhere. Period.
It's 7 stories, 209 all-suite rooms I believe, unless the plans were allowed to change after the initial OCIDA vote. In line with other mid-size hotels in Armory, but it's not going to be a flagship jewel like the Hotel Syracuse. What I'm more puzzled by is their decision to no longer attach directly to the mall. I assumed the main incentive for attachment was the convenience of leaving your coat in your room and not having to cross over traffic during the winter.
lol...I spent the first 32 years of my life living just a few short miles from there.....I worked up on that location a few times over the years. Just last summer I worked at Syracuse stage too.
Cue the posters who say the star rankings don't matter
. My personal opinion, the architectural elements alone have it well positioned to eventually attain a 4-star rating if things like first impressions, character, and ambience matter. 
As someone who actually worked on the Destiny Project I can confirm this. This was always a pipe dream at best. It's a classic Harvard business case of disfunctional organization back during those times. Just to be clear I was working directly with the big boys. There was never anything close to financing.
I was speaking with Rep. Katko about this. His opinion was the Miner blew it. She could have demanded that an excise tax be put on tickets sold. Would have funded infra structure improvements for decades.
an excise tax on tickets sold to syracuse football games this year wouldn't fund the driveway I need to replace at home
Actually you are right as I walked over there a few times. West of there a few blocks. We had to park in a lot by there as they were doing to ground work,paving and landscaping there.But either way there is a few private business there and there is no way SUNY or the state would tear down a brand new building that costs north of 40 million to build.
Katko being a Republican while Miner is a Democrat I'm sure had absolutely nothing to do with his comments. Nothing whatsoever.
Cuomo is a Democrat too.
