Syracuse, N.Y. – Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh announced that Cimone Jordan has been named Director of Housing and Neighborhood Planning and Elyzabeth Wengert Director of Neighborhood Grant Programming and Compliance.
As director of housing and neighborhood development, Jordan will take on a number of
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.