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Mayor cites $125,950 ESD pro-housing grant for scattered-site blight removal; council debates demolitions and tenant impacts
Summary
Mayor Jared Kramm presented a $125,950 pro-housing grant award for demolition and blight removal on several downtown parcels the city obtained in a settlement with a local property owner. Council members pressed for transparency on demolition criteria and asked the mayor to seek a pause on a pending eviction at 42 Fayette to allow a written plan.
Mayor Jared Kramm presented RL25-63, a resolution to accept a $125,950 pro-housing grant from Empire State Development to support scattered-site blight removal in downtown Binghamton.
Kramm said the grant — a 50 percent award for demolition and related work — applies to parcels the city acquired as part of a settlement with a local property owner (identified in the meeting as Isaac Anserud). The parcels identified in the grant include 234-and-a-half Fayette Street, 42 Fayette Street and 12 Rutherford Street; Kramm said 12 Rutherford would remain green space for flood mitigation and the other parcels would be cleared to be shovel ready for redevelopment. He described the grant as a tool, together with a “block-by-block” program, to prepare parcels near Columbus Park for redevelopment and more housing. The transcript records the mayor…
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