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TNT stands for Tomorrow's Neighborhoods Today and is a program of the City of Syracuse.  Eastwood (Area 6) TNT meetings are the fourth Monday of every month at 7:00 p.m. in the cafetorium of the Huntington Elementary School, 400 Sunnycrest Rd. (off Midler).  Eastwood TNT committee meetings are the second Monday of every month, same time, same place.

Business assistance information provided by the 
City of Syracuse Department of Economic Development
Own a business in Eastwood?
Want to help a business succeed?
Download these three MS Word documents:

START-UP, EXPANSION, AND TRAINING ASSISTANCE
For James Street Businesses

JAMES STREET BUSINESS ASSISTANCE INITIATIVE 2006 
(tax incentives and other financial assistance)

Business Association for James Street Corridor

October 19, 2006
TNT Area 6 – Eastwood 5-Year Planning:
Summary of Information for Workshop #3

The information presented in this document was derived from the goals and objectives generated by the TNT Area 6 Planning Council in Area Planning Workshop #2. The data was compiled and summarized by members of the City of Syracuse’s Community Development Department staff. The categories used in the workshops, and displayed below, have been guides for brainstorming and specificity of thought, but some overlap in the content of each outcome area is to be expected.

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• Establish Eastwood as a well-maintained, easily navigated neighborhood.
• Continue improvements on James St.
• Improve corners (Midland).
• Continue to put sidewalks on unimproved streets.
• Numbers on houses.

• Establish Eastwood as a beautiful, aesthetic, well-kempt, and unique neighborhood.
• Flowers, tree-lined streets, shrubbery, etc.
• Possibly establish 3 districts of Eastwood – Sunnycrest, Arlington, and North Eastwood.

• Establish Eastwood as a safe place to live, work, shop, and play.
• Create “defensible space” with eyes on the street.

Market:

• Promote better investment in the housing stock.
• Increase the percentage of homes that are owner-occupied

• zoning changes
• tax incentives for potential homebuyers
• possibly limit the number of properties a landlord may own in the city

• Improve the appearance of homes in the neighborhood.

• provide tax incentives for homeowners to do home improvements
• stricter code enforcement
• create mechanisms for better communication from the City of Syracuse to new (and existing) homeowners about codes, maintenance (brush pick up, etc.), and other expectations

• Improve local infrastructure, like sidewalks, to fuel property improvements by residents.

• Market homes to younger individuals and families.
• Promote the city school district
• Make improvements to the city schools…

Neighborhood Management:

• Promote a safe neighborhood environment.
• Have a persistent police presence on Midler Ave.
• Make the police substation fit in with the rest of the neighborhood and look like an active site in the community.
• Pedestrian level lighting on James St.

• Promote participation in Neighborhood Associations and Neighborhood Watch groups.
• Better recruitment.

• Promote beautification.
• Stricter code enforcement and better communication to residents of what codes are.
• Promote citizen gardening.
• bulb distribution
• neighborhood planting or decorating contests

• Foster a healthy and sustainable business atmosphere.
• Revive the Eastwood Business Association.
• Hold developers to high standards (codes, zoning, etc.).

Physical Conditions:

• Work with the City to create infrastructure improvement plans.
• Curbing/street corner improvement plan.
• Sidewalk improvement plan.
• Lighting improvement plan.
• James St. ornamental lighting

• Continue to enhance the parks.

• Revive the snow removal ordinance.

• Practice creative drainage.
• Rain gardens, etc.

• Stop widening streets to allow for planting.

Read the TNT Assessment and Recommendations as prepared by the Enterprise Foundation.  This is a pdf file - you'll need Adobe Acrobat to read it.

The following are Microsoft Word documents:

City Auditor's Final TNT Financial and Performance Audit Report 

City Auditor's Final TNT Management Response Report

Eastwood is Area 6 (below), bounded on the south by I-690, on the west by Teall Ave, and on the east and north by the Town of Dewitt.  The James St. business district runs right to the eastern boundary. Something to think about: Inflexible boomers turn off 40 Below Why don't the 40 and below participate in TNT in larger numbers?

Map of Syracuse TNT areas.   Eastwood is Area 6.

Louis Mariani Garden Dedicated
(Post-Standard, 05/01/05)
"Raindrops fell on tulips, daffodils and about 70 spectators as the Louis Mariani Peace Garden was unveiled Saturday at Sunnycrest Park in Syracuse's Eastwood neighborhood.  'Louie was a neighborhood kid who we cared for,' said Mike Behnke, president of the Sunnycrest Park Association."

Mike Behnke is also the new Eastwood TNT Parks Committee facilitator who puts untold amounts of energy into beautifying and preserving our parks.

Links

City of Syracuse Community Development website
See this page for information about public meetings regarding the 2005-06 Draft Consolidated Plan and the link to the 2005-06 Draft Consolidated Plan.

Eastwood TNT-ED (Economic Development) Committee

The Economic Development Committee has been revived.  Peter Kavanagh, facilitator for the Area 6 TNT group invited Lonnie Chu (this site's webmaster) to be the facilitator for that committee.  Given that there was no competition for the job, she was easily approved in the TNT meeting of January 24, 2005. 

The committee met for the first time on February 14 and brainstormed the many projects and tasks that will help Eastwood attract businesses and developers who know how to profit from doing business in a sustainable, walkable "Village Within the City."

We continued on April 11 with the visioning process so that we could continue to build a solid foundation.  We organized nearly 100 ideas into five basic groups:  Business, Destination, Design/Aesthetics, Marketing and Community Development, Diverse housing.

Members of the ED committee also met with various city government folks and have established TNT as the forum through which those interested in developing in Eastwood may communicate with the community.