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It’s a Friday afternoon at the Technology Garden, a business incubator in Syracuse. The dozen-or-so staff members of software design company Rounded Development are sitting around on couches, chowing on Dinosaur Barbeque take-out and chatting up ideas for new products.

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner has notched another win in her efforts to get the city's major nonprofits to begin chipping in for the city services they use.

The city announced this morning that Crouse Hospital will pay $50,000 for four years in a service agreement. In June of last year, Miner struck a deal with Syracuse University where the school will pay $500,000 for five years. That's a drop in the bucket of the estimated $24 million the university would pay if it was fully taxable, according the city's assessment office.

Hoping to better support its growing immigrant population, Syracuse has put forward a plan to create an "international village" in its north side neighborhood.

Syracuse's idea has been named a finalist in the Mayors Challenge competition, which is run by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's charity organization Bloomberg Philanthropies.