Syracuse’s downtown has seen an astonishing 47 percent increase in residential population in the last decade, including a 21 percent spike in just the last three years. Cynics will probably say the statistics are impressive only because the downtown population was previously just so little, but there’s no doubting a remarkable national trend–renewed, booming interest in living right in the hearts of our cities. Young professionals are driving the boom in downtowns of places like Buffalo, Rochester and even smaller cities such as Binghamton and Schenectady. Experts studying the growth in downtown Syracuse say confidently that the neighborhood could easily fill 700 new units a year over the next five years.

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