Syracuse’s Clean Tech Center ranks No. 6 on list of top 10 “cleantech clusters” in the world

By Marie Morelli / The Post-Standard
March 03, 2010
The Syracuse region was named one of the world’s top 10 “cleantech clusters” by a venture capitalist who specializes in financing green technology companies.
Shawn Lesser, founder of Sustainable World Capital, named Syracuse’s CleanTech Center No. 6 on his list for its “38 colleges and universities, 138,000 college students, [...]

Residents of Syracuse’s Near West Side are still pushing to renovate Blodgett School

By Maureen Nolan / The Post-Standard
March 04, 2010, 5:00AM
The Near West Side hasn’t forgotten about Blodgett School, even though school’s public profile has waned since the November city elections.
Near West Side Community on the Move, a neighborhood advocacy group, wants to develop an action plan for getting the building renovated. Community on the Move will [...]

Hear it from the Artists’ Lips

MONTHLY RESIDENTS MEETING CANCELED

Please note that this month’s Community on the Move meeting has been canceled due to the snowstorm moving through the area.  Our next meeting will be March 25 at 6:30pm at the Boys and Girls club on Shonnard Street.

Blodgett School Success

by Aaron Hudson

The success stories of the Near West Side Initiative (NWSI) continue with the latest news about Blodgett School, located in the Northeast side of the SALT District. According to Central New York Real-Time News, Blodgett School has been removed from the State Education Department’s list of “schools under registration review” list. The [...]

Downtown Dining Weeks start Monday

Written on February 9th, 2010 by Don Cazentre of the Post Standard
A record number of downtown Syracuse restaurants will participate in this year’s version of “Downtown Dining Weeks,” a two-week promotion that offers 3-course meals for $25 or less at participating eateries.
The 19 restaurants will offer the discounts this year from Feb. 15 to Feb. [...]

Otisco Street ‘green’ home will be replicated nearby

Taken From Post Standard.  Written By Marie Morelli
Syracuse, NY — While a construction crew builds the innovative green home named TED on Otisco Street, plans are being made to build TED’s brother in the same Near West Side neighborhood.
TED was one of three winners of the From the Ground Up architecture competition sponsored by Home [...]

Making spirits bright, one bike at a time

Via  The Post-Standard, Written by John Berry

The 14th annual Central New York Family Bike Giveaway will be Saturday at Fowler High School in Syracuse. The doors open at 11 a.m. and reservations are not required.

Bike donations can be dropped off through Thursday at the Toyota Exhibit Building at the New York State Fairgrounds; Wayne’s [...]

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 [...]

Red House brings a different breed of cinema to Syracuse

Written by Nigel Smith.  Taken from www.thenewshouse.com
Enter the Red House, a gallery and theater located on the periphery of Armory Square, vying to become an edgy cinema venue with annual film programs.
Their latest program, Overcoming the Spectacle: A Cinema of Pure Means, which opened in October and runs into late April of next year, features [...]

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