Residents hope community grid will reconnect neighborhoods
Photo illustration by Emily Steinberger | Photo Editor, Photo courtesy of Deanna Holland
The state’s budget for 2022 will include $800 million for the estimated $2 billion project.
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When Marie Kearse-Ace was young, she spent her afternoons visiting Wilson Park with her friends, eating at restaurants on Harrison Street and roller skating at the rink on Oakwood Avenue before she was forced to leave.
Kearse-Ace grew up in a house that her grandfather built on Renwick Place, where the parking garage for Upstate University Hospital now sits. In her neighborhood, she recalled grocery stores, hairdressers, youth centers and a sense of community all within feet of her house.