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Step Two boost as businesses reopen Jo Francis Monday, April 12, 2021 With shoppers pictured queuing up at some retail destinations today, print’s own High Street businesses are looking forward to a return to a more normal way of trading. A Nettl store promoting its reopening today The roadmap out of lockdown outlined by Prime Minister Boris Johnson in February has reached the Step Two reopening phase, with all retailers in England now allowed to open, as well as personal care, outdoor attractions and outdoor hospitality.   Nigel Toplis, managing direct...

Syracuse officials must stay on target to root out slumlords (Editorial) Updated Dec 30, 2020; Staff writer Chris Baker’s recent investigation into a 10-year-old property investment scheme by a British con man, Simon Slee, was revealing in a couple of ways. It explains why roughly 100 Syracuse rental properties, marketed mainly to foreign investors, fell (or fell further) into disrepair – forcing tenants to live in squalor and dragging down already struggling neighborhoods. It also shows how things are slowly turning around due to changes to the city’s approach to tax delinquency, code...

Special investigation: How a British con man lured slumlords to Syracuse (Good Morning CNY for Dec. 17) Updated Dec 17, 2020; Weather Photo of the Day SEASON OF GIVING IN SYRACUSE: Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, this year’s edition of the Christmas Bureau’s annual distribution day looked different. But the spirit behind the giveaway remained the same: Every child deserves to have a present to open on Christmas morning and enough food to keep their bellies full. Gift cards and hearty food baskets were given out to 2,100 families in need on Wednesday at the old Post-Standard building ...

Uncovering an international slumlord scheme in Syracuse: About the reporting Syracuse.com 12/17/2020 Chris Baker, syracuse.com © Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com/syracuse.com/TNS Syracuse.com sent letters to roughly 50 landlords in 10 different countries. Several responded. Syracuse, N.Y. — More than a decade ago, an Englishman started a real estate scheme that promised European investors they could make easy money by buying cheap property in Syracuse. That Englishman, Simon Slee, brokered deals to put nearly 100 Syracuse homes into the hands of more than 60 overseas ow...