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Syracuse is about to get a massive injection of cash; How does Ben Walsh want to spend it?
Updated Mar 09, 2021;
Posted Mar 09, 2021
Syracuse City Mayor Ben Walsh delivers his 2021 State of the City address at the Salt City Market, Syracuse, N.Y., Thursday Jan. 21, 2021. Scott Schild | sschild@syracuse.comScott Schild | sschild@syracuse.
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Syracuse, N.Y. The city of Syracuse is poised to receive $126 million in Covid-19 relief from the federal government, one of the biggest infusions of cash in city history.
The money, however, comes after a year that punished the city’s bottom line. Mayor Ben Walsh had to slash $18 million in spending last year and expects to dip heavily into the city’s rainy day fund to deal with mounting losses from the pandemic.
Ben Walsh planned to build 50 new homes in Syracuse. Then the pandemic struck
Updated Jan 15, 2021;
Posted Jan 15, 2021
Work is underway to build two new single-family houses on Shuart Avenue in Syracuse, Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021.
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Syracuse, N.Y. Just weeks before a pandemic struck Central New York, Mayor Ben Walsh announced an aggressive plan to build 50 new homes in Syracuse in two years. It would be the biggest batch of residential neighborhood construction in Syracuse in a generation.
Nearly a year after that announcement, the project is behind schedule, with construction just now beginning on a handful of houses. And securing funding for the project has proved more difficult than initially expected as the state closed its purse strings for cities like Syracuse.