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Council unanimously approves redevelopment of SDC site, citing need for affordable housing
Summary
The Common Council voted unanimously to approve item 43, authorizing redevelopment of the 47‑acre SDC property for affordable and mixed‑income housing. A councilor described the project as the end of a long process involving the administration, state and developers and thanked neighborhood and development partners.
The Syracuse Common Council unanimously approved item 43 to advance redevelopment of the SDC property, a 47‑acre parcel the councilor described as long tied up in tax and ownership issues.
A councilor speaking in favor said the project began more than five years ago and involved discussions with the administration, the state and a developer. The speaker described an initial phase including hundreds of affordable units and said the project will create "a whole new mixed‑income neighborhood in the city's West End." The speaker thanked President Hudson, the mayor, the deputy mayor, Home Headquarters representative Carrie Quaglia, Chris Albanese, Kathy Murphy, neighborhood leader Janice McKenna and others who supported the effort.
"It wasn't easy. It involved some spirited debate between myself and the deputy mayor," the councilor said, noting the long process to acquire and redevelop the property. The council then voted; the clerk recorded the item as adopted unanimously.
Meeting remarks identified the parcel as a former state institution and noted it had not been paying taxes in recent years. Councilors praised the multi‑year process and emphasized that adding housing would help address the city's housing shortage. The transcript does not contain an ordinance or contract number for the authorization adopted at the meeting, and no implementation timetable was read into the record.
The council proceeded to other agenda items after the vote.
