Efforts in the Salt Springs Neighborhood, ERIE21 Mentioned in Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh’s State of the City
Last night, at Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh鈥檚 annual state of the city address at Corcoran High School, the College鈥檚 ERIE21 program聽and work in the Salt Springs neighborhood聽was mentioned聽during his 60-minute聽talk.
鈥淔ormer New York State Governor and U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt once said, ‘We cannot always聽build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.’ Le Moyne College’s ERIE21 Program is a prime example of how we are building our youth for the future,鈥� said Walsh. 鈥淓RIE21聽is providing early interventions in middle school with continuous work in high school to help grow computational, software, and engineering skills. The program has served more than 600 city school students聽as well as a large group of adults through its careers in coding program.
Also mentioned was work to develop projects in the city neighborhoods, including the Salt Springs neighborhood, which was the聽focus of the LANDS聽strategic聽plan, a partnership between the city, the College and the Town of DeWitt.聽Walsh said聽鈥淥n the eastside, the growth of new mixed-use developments along the East Genesee and East Fayette corridors has transformed that part of town. Further east we are working hand and hand with Le Moyne College to strengthen the Salt Springs neighborhood. Home HeadQuarters held its annual block blitz there and multiple city departments are now working with Le Moyne on infrastructure in the area to make it more pedestrian and cycle friendly and inviting to homeowners.鈥�
Walsh鈥檚 entire address聽聽with the ERIE21 mention at the 19:15 mark聽and the Salt Springs neighborhood mention at the 31:30 mark. You can also聽. The photo above was part of slide presentation that accompanied his address and shows graduates of the program’s first-ever Lock 4 cohort.
