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Message: [QUOTE="KellySyracuse, post: 1910210, member: 1644"] You can peruse the original thread here: [URL="http://syracusefan.com/threads/anyone-hear-this-new-stadium-rumor.65862/"]Anyone hear this new stadium rumor[/URL] More to the story today on Syracuse.com and the behind the scenes glad handing/money transfer that got Cor the Kennedy Square property that may shed some light on why the rumor of a new stadium on that site got started [SIZE=6][B][URL='http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2016/10/infamous_lobbyist_todd_howe_paid_by_both_sides_of_failed_state_project_in_syracu.html#incart_m-rpt-1']Lobbyist Todd Howe was paid by both sides - state, developer - in no-bid Syracuse deal[/URL][/B] [/SIZE] [SIZE=4]"Upstate officials had been in talks with Cor as early as 2007 about collaborating at Kennedy Square...(Todd) Howe was present in December 2011 when [URL='http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2011/12/upstate_medical_teams_up_with.html']Lt. Gov. Duffy came to Syracuse [/URL]and announced that Upstate would partner with Cor to develop Kennedy Square. Duffy and other officials implied at the news conference that Cor would engineer $230 million in new development, creating a new neighborhood called Loguen's Crossing adjacent to Upstate's biotech center. But nothing has been created except the biotech facility, which Upstate built independently. The joint venture agreement with Cor remains in effect but has not been executed, because the eight-acre tract targeted for development remains dormant. [B]Howe is now cooperating with federal prosecutors. [/B](for bribery and bid rigging regarding other projects involving COR) Cor executives Steven Aiello and Joseph Gerardi were charged Sept. 22 with bribery and bid-rigging in connection with a 2013 contract they won from a different state university, SUNY Polytechnic Institute."[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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