Syracuse, N.Y. – Construction began on the first new apartment buildings for the East Adams Neighborhood transformation project on Wednesday. It’s a $102 million development to replace the public housing units demolished at McKinney Manor.

It’s the first of 11 phases in the $1 billion neighborhood transformation near downtown. Throughout the rest of the project, developers will tear down almost 700 public housing units along I-81 and replace them with over 1,300 new mixed-income units.

Phase 1 will create a four-story building, a three-story building and a string of townhomes, according to Allyson Carpenter, vice president of the development company McCormack Baron Salazar.

It’s called “The Langston,” in honor of late judge Langston C. McKinney, after whom the former public housing was

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