Syracuse will formally commence the foreclosure process on a long vacant downtown church, aiming to turn the historic building into another part of a downtown residential boom. The Common Council voted Monday to seize the former First Baptist Church, commonly known as Mizpah Tower, with the plan of selling it to a new developer. This isn't the first time Syracuse has tried to see the nearly 100 year-old church become something more than just a vacant structure, which it's been for a quarter-century.
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