Bringing Neighborhood Back to Life ; Not-for-Profit's Residential Vision to Be Shown to Lockport Planners

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A Syracuse-based not-for-profit organization will go before the city Planning Board on Monday to detail its plans to invest $8.5 million in resuscitating a central city neighborhood of once-grand homes that has deteriorated over the decades into a miasma of crime, drugs and blight.

Housing Visions, which has done similar work in seven Central New York cities, was recruited by the leaders of a block club to purchase as many properties as it could in the Genesee Street area and turn them into desirable apartments with law-abiding tenants.

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Bringing Neighborhood Back to Life ; Not-for-Profit's Residential Vision to Be Shown to Lockport Planners

The organization has purchase agreements in place to buy 11 properties on Genesee and Locust streets. If its formula of obtaining and selling state tax credits works here as it has elsewhere, Genesee Street could be wearing a brighter face in two or three years.

"It would turn it right around," Mayor Michael W. Tu...

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