Buyers lined up for all three “From the Ground Up” houses on Syracuse’s Near West Side

Taken from Syracuse.com Written by Marie Morelli / The Post-Standard

From a construction standpoint, it was a fairly quiet, and wintry, week at the three From the Ground Up homes being built on the city’s Near West Side.

Windy conditions stopped framing in its tracks on the two Otisco Street houses, R-House at 619 Otisco and TED at 621 Otisco. R-House is still just a foundation. TED’s four walls are up but it has no roof as of yet.

On Monday, the windows went in on the Live Work Home house, 317-319 Marcellus St., as you can see in the photo above provided by Home Headquarters. Also during the week, the basement floor was poured and the radon mitigation system was installed.

Home HeadQuarters, Syracuse University School of Architecture and the Syracuse Center of Excellence sponsored the “From the Ground Up” design competition that challenged architects to come up with affordable, sustainable homes to help inject new life into the Near West Side, a blighted urban neighborhood a stone’s throw from downtown.

Home HeadQuarters is acting as general contractor on all three houses and is marketing them to buyers — successfully, as it turns out.

Home HeadQuarters has letters of intent from “interested, engaged buyers” for all three houses, said Karen Schroeder, marketing and resource development manager for Home HeadQuarters. A purchase offer on the Marcellus Street house was withdrawn in mid-November but another buyer has stepped in.

Backup offers on all three houses are still being accepted, she said.