Developers have started cleaning up a 2.5-acre vacant lot where they intend to build senior apartments for the second phase of the new East Adams neighborhood, near the Interstate 81 viaduct.

The block is just south of McKinney Manor, where 25 apartment units have been torn down to make way for the first phase of the project.

The vacant lot is owned by the Syracuse Housing Authority. SHA with McCormack Baron Salazar, a Missouri developer, plans to build 125 new apartments for low-income seniors on the site. Construction on the new four-story building at the corner of Burt and South State streets is expected to begin in January, according to Allyson Carpenter, vice president of development for MBS.

It is part of a massive $1 billion plan to tear down nearly 700 units of public housin

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