Tagged: inner harbor

Some of the money collected through the tax break agreement between the Destiny USA mega-mall and Syracuse will be used to try and win federal funding for Inner Harbor improvements.

The Syracuse Industrial Development Agency (SIDA) has approved the use of $500,000 from Destiny payments to be part of a match for a federal grant the city is applying for.

The grant from the Economic Development Administration is worth $2 million, if the city can match it. Sen. Charles Schumer, a Democrat, was in Syracuse last month to stump for the grant. The city will have to come up with the other $1.5 million elsewhere.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand did one of her bill-promoting swings through upstate New York on Friday. This one was for money to help cities redevelopment their once industrial waterfronts.

The democratic senator stopped in Buffalo, Rochester and Syracuse to promote the Waterfront Brownfields Redevelopment Act.

The program would create $500,000 grants for governments and nonprofits to be directed towards cleanup activities. And in true Washington fashion, it would also create a special task force on the issue.