Taken From Post Standard.
Written By Marie Morelli

Syracuse, NY — While a construction crew builds the innovative green home named TED on Otisco Street, plans are being made to build TED’s brother in the same Near West Side neighborhood.

TED was one of three winners of the From the Ground Up architecture competition sponsored by Home HeadQuarters, Syracuse University School of Architecture and the Syracuse Center of Excellence.

The point of the competition was to come up with designs for sustainable, affordable, energy-efficient homes that would replace blighted properties and attract new residents to the Near West Side. The homes also would be a template for future development.

A second TED house is in the works, likely for Oswego Street, said Karen Schroeder, marketing and resource development manager for Home HeadQuarters. The group’s construction manager is working with the architects from Onion Flats, Philadelphia, to tweak the design.

“We’ve been looking to replicate some of these things,” Schroeder said Friday. “We just found a real response to the TED design.”

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