Construction workers are back at the future Biotechnology Research Center in Syracuse. It's the former location for Kennedy Square Apartments. The framework has been up for while, but work was delayed for some time. Our Iris St. Meran has an update on its progress.

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SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- The sight of construction work is welcomed here on East Fayette Street.

Upstate Medical University Assistant Vice President Tom Pelis said, "It's wonderful to see activity down here. This is going to be a beautiful building."

That will house the Biotechnology Research Center. It's a collaborative undertaking between SUNY Upstate Medical University and SUNY ESF. Ground was broken on the $22 million project in 2009.

Pelis said, "The people that would reside in here are folks that would have an idea and perhaps a patent and want to develop their research into potentially a commercially viable product or service. That's who would go in here."

Construction started here last spring but was stalled this time last year because they were waiting for more than $4 million in state funding. But Pelis said all funding is now in place and construction resumed in June.

"A considerable amount of site work has been done with drainage and sanitation, water lines that sort of thing," Pelis said, "In the building some of the plumbing, electrical, mechanical roughing work which is needed to place concrete has been completed."

The construction of the future center is now projected to be completed in early June of 2012.