In April 2006, Hadad voluntarily closed the garage after refusing to allow a city-hired engineer to inspect the structure. The city had threatened to order it closed. Customers of the garage complained of a balky elevator that often was stuck between floors. Developer Tony Fiorito proposed to expand the garage in February 2006, tearing down two standing structures between the garage and East Fayette Street to the north. 301 South Warren is a two story building that once housed a Rite-Aid annex between the 1970s and 1990s. The second floor has been empty since tenants including City Opticians and a tailor left in the early 1990s. While the ancient windows betray the age of the building, some of the original architectural grace of the 1930s-era building can be seen in the curved columns between the windows, sheathed in ceramic glazed brick or terra cotta.

Paramount Development, the company set up to manage Eli Hadad's Syracuse properties, had the blackened storefronts painted with various murals. The garage was finally sold to GT Bag of Novato, California in July. The Syracuse Industrial Development Agency had already begun eminent domain action to seize the garage in order to appease Excellus. GT vows to fight any such action.

In the spring of 2006, disputes boiled over at Hadad's property at 204 East Jefferson Street a block and a half south of the garage. Hadad had refused to pay the electric bills for the building, which was previously known as Century Plaza. In the May 31 Post-Standard, Hadad admitted he was trying to force out the remaining tenants, calling himself a victim and saying the electric bill exceeds what he receives in rent from the building's tenants. The next day, National Grid cut power to the building after the building owed over $40,000 for power, forcing out a Subway sandwich shop, the Sweet Shoppe ice cream parlor and longtime downtown merchant Shaver's World. This building was also sold in early July.

431 South Warren Street has been completely vacant for years. One of its owners was disgraced attorney Roger Scott, a partner in Scott, Sardano & Pomeranz, which formerly had offices in the building. Scott was disbarred in 1994 after highly publicized cases involving his lavish Skaneateles house, which violated town zoning violations and fraudulent billing for the court-ordered demolition of that same house. The Meltzers III restaurant has been gone since the 1980s, but the sign remains since the space hasn't been occupied since Meltzers left. Meanwhile, the recessed entrance to the upper floors has become an overnight haven for the homeless.

443 Realty Corp., the current owner of 431 South Warren, has requested permission to demolish the building and is expected to use the lot for another entrance to the parking lot in the rear. The building's Art Moderne facade and the animal-themed trompe l'oeil on the second floor roof are unique in Syracuse and would be lost in the demolition. Already, the canopy over the front entrance has been cut away, leaving an empty hole.

When a small section of the MONY Garage collapsed in 1993, crushing several cars beneath it, the garage was certified unsound and was cut away in slabs the following spring. Despite the shortage of private parking downtown, the garage was not rebuilt because the market was no longer there to support such an expensive project.

The only recent garage project, the now-abandoned Excellus expansion plan on Salina Street, was planned to be financed in part by millions of taxpayer dollars. Expensive taxpayer subsidies are common in Syracuse's desperate attempts to retain businesses in downtown's former business center.

The ground-level office space beneath the garage was empty for a decade before being finally being rebuilt to house the Syracuse Technology Garden.

The storefront at 305 has seen a succession of short-lived eateries, spending far more time vacant than occupied in the last ten years. Even Bob’s Barkers, which was a fixture in East Syracuse for decades, had to abort its downtown location here as soon as it could. Its neighbor at 207 was demolished in late 2005. A new building on the lot is unlikely.

Central High School was built in 1903. It was designed by noted Syracuse architect Archimedes Russell and cost $340,000 at the time. (2005 equivalent: $7.25 million.) The architectural firm that Russell founded in 1868 continues to operate today as King & King Architects, LLP.

The Lincoln Auditorium inside was considered one of the finest performance spaces on the East Coast, and the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra played there for decades. Today, the auditorium has no backstage, which has been walled off with sheetrock to create (never used) office space in the gymnasium behind it.

Now called Greystone Square, the building has yet to find a major tenant 30 years after the school closed down. The city wants to turn it into Career Technical High School (aka Institute of Technology) but the Common Council and the Syracuse City School District struggled to obtain funding for the renovations after more than three years of planning. Finally, in June 2005, state Legislature approved a $600 million plan to renovate all Syracuse schools by 2015. but Governor Pataki vetoed the bill in August 2005, citing inadequate safeguards against fraud and waste. The most recent cost estimates, made in April 2004 when the School Board approved the conversion of the building, was $36 million, up from $25.7 when the project was proposed.

First Universalist Church stood across East Adams Street. It was one of many churches downtown during its heyday and was replaced by a parking lot then a parking garage in the late 1990s.