Nearly $2M in tax breaks approved to make Syracuse office building into apartments

250 Harrison

High Tide Capital has plans to turn this mostly vacant office building at 250 Harrison St. into 35 apartments. The building was built in 1928 as a hotel. (Rick Moriarty | rmoriarty@syracuse.com)Rick Moriarty | rmoriarty@syracuse.com

Syracuse, N.Y. — A $13 million project to convert a mostly empty downtown Syracuse office building into 35 apartments will get some help from taxpayers.

The Syracuse Industrial Development Agency on Tuesday approved a package of tax breaks worth $1.9 million for a Bangor, Maine-based developer’s plan to repurpose a six-story building at the corner of Harrison and Montgomery streets.

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