Blueprint 15 announces new executive director

Pride-Green grew up spending summers and much of the school year staying with his grandparents in Pioneer Homes at 910-1055 McBride St. in Syracuse. Born and raised in Syracuse, he is a graduate of Corcoran High School and serves as an assistant high school football coach at the Institute of Technology at Central (ITC).

He has been responsible for hosting various events to benefit members of the Syracuse community, Blueprint 15 said. Pride-Green most recently organized a hygiene drive for Syracuse youth; a tablet drive in April 2020 as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic to help 150 students secure access to technology; and a breast-cancer awareness fundraiser in on behalf of Shades of Inspiration, an organization located at the South Side Innovation Center at 2610 S. Salina St. in Syracuse.   

Pride-Green earned bachelor’s degree in communication studies at the University of Rhode Island, and a master’s degree in television, radio, and film from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications from Syracuse University, per the news release. 

About Blueprint 15

Blueprint 15, Inc. is a recently formed nonprofit organization that works in partnership with the Syracuse Housing Authority (SHA).

It has a “bold vision for the holistic revitalization” of the neighborhood bounded by East Adams and South Salina streets and Interstate 81 (I-81). 

SHA controls the majority of the property in the plan area — about 118 square acres on 27 square blocks — and other nonprofit and educational institutions control much of the balance. 

The current property has 1,060 units of public housing, 11 single family homes of low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) housing, and scattered privately-owned, single-family homes or rental units. The neighborhood is immediately adjacent to I-81.

The neighborhood is at the “crossroads” of business and residential developments in the downtown area and large institutions in the University Hill area such as Syracuse University, Upstate Medical University, and Crouse Hospital.

Blueprint 15 sees the project as an “exciting opportunity to link Syracuse’s many assets in a dynamic, mixed-income, mixed-use neighborhood,” per its news release.