Events this week — what's on, where, and how to get in.

40th Syracuse International Jazz Fest — Thursday–Sunday, July 9–12. Free. Full schedule

The festival moves across three locations over the weekend:

One of the world's longest-running free jazz festivals hits its 40th year, and it would be a pricey ticket almost anywhere else — here, it's still free to walk in.

Tuesday, July 7

Downtown Syracuse Farmers Market — Clinton Square, Tuesday, July 7, 8 AM–2 PM. Free. The downtown market's 54th season, 30-plus vendors of produce, flowers, and local food. Details

Wednesday, July 8

Liverpool is the Place: Mood Swing — Johnson Park, Liverpool, Wednesday, July 8, 7–9 PM. Free. Classic rock in the park, part of the village's 39th summer concert series. Details

Thursday, July 9

Skaneateles Curbstone Festival & Sidewalk Sales — Village of Skaneateles, Thursday–Saturday, July 9–11, 9 AM–6 PM (Sat until 5 PM). Free. Sidewalk sales along Genesee, Jordan, and Fennell Streets. Details

East Syracuse Ice Cream Social — Village of East Syracuse, Friday, July 10. The 50th year of a village tradition. Details

Stickley Manlius Factory Sale — 1 Stickley Drive, Manlius, Thursday–Sunday, July 9–12. Free entry. Up to 80% off overstock, discontinued, and prototype furniture from the CNY maker. Details

Saturday, July 11

Gemworld — 59th Annual Gem, Mineral, Fossil & Jewelry Show — Center of Progress Building, NYS Fairgrounds, Saturday–Sunday, July 11–12, 10 AM–6 PM (Sun until 4 PM). $8. Rocks, fossils, and jewelry vendors under one roof. Details

Syracuse Orchestra Summer Concert — Beard Park, Fayetteville, Saturday, July 11, 7:30 PM. Free outdoor concert. Details

CNY Regional Market — 2100 Park St, Saturday, July 11, 7 AM–2 PM. Free. The big year-round Saturday farmers market, dozens of regional growers and makers. Details

Sunday, July 12

Penguin Palooza — Rosamond Gifford Zoo, Sunday, July 12, 10 AM–3 PM. Included with zoo admission. An ice cream party around the zoo's Penguin Coast, with free ice cream, face painters, music, and demonstrations with the zoo's colony of Humboldt penguins. Details

Tuesday, July 7

Nick Moss Band feat. Dennis Gruenling — The 443 Social Club, 443 Burnet Ave, Tuesday, July 7, 7 PM. Chicago blues, guitar and harmonica. Tickets

Wednesday, July 8

Harmonic Dirt & Friends — The Whiskey Coop, 120 Walton St, Wednesday, July 8, 7 PM. No cover listed. Americana and folk from the CNY band led by Mike Gridley and Susan Coleman. Details

Thursday, July 9

Vince Gill: 50 Years From Home — Oncenter Crouse Hinds Theater, 411 Montgomery St, Thursday, July 9. The country singer and 22-time Grammy winner. Tickets

Friday, July 10

The Late Night Playlist — The Fitz, 321 S Salina St, Friday, July 10, 8:30 PM. Free, no cover. Jazz at the downtown listening room. Details

Saturday, July 11

Mt. Erebus (Loading Dock Series) — Middle Ages Brewing, 120 Wilkinson St, Saturday, July 11, 4–7 PM. Free. An outdoor loading-dock set. Details

Sunday, July 12

1911 Tasting Room: Bill Ali — Beak & Skiff, 2708 Lords Hill Rd, Lafayette, Sunday, July 12, 2–4 PM. Free tasting-room set at the orchard, the same weekend the Jazz Fest is there. Details

Also at the Amp this week: three arena shows at the Empower FCU Amphitheater, 490 Restoration Way — The Guess Who (Tue), the Pussycat Dolls with Lil' Kim & Mya (Wed), and "Weird Al" Yankovic (Fri). Tickets

Coming Soon: Beak & Skiff "Sip, Step, & Spin" (Fri, July 17) — a step-and-spin night out at the orchard, just past this window. Towpath Day at Camillus Erie Canal Park (Sat, Aug 8) — "Happy 250th America!" on the canal, 11 AM–4 PM.

We track way more than we can squeeze into The Lineup. Refer 2 friends to the Club, and the full calendar unlocks:

This week in CNY food — what's opening, closing, and on the way.

Strong Hearts Cafe is pouring its last shake. After 18 years, the vegan cafe at 315 Irving Ave — the milkshake-and-plant-food anchor on the edge of the Hill — closes for good Saturday, July 18, with owners Joel Capolongo and Nick Ryan citing the rising cost of running independent restaurants. The Buffalo location closes a week earlier. If you've been meaning to go, get it in this week or next. CNY Central

Apizza Alimentari opens Wednesday in Fayetteville. The crew behind downtown's Apizza Regionale — including Dinosaur Bar-B-Que founder John Stage — takes over the former Kirby's at 408 E. Genesee St., opening July 8 as part café, part Italian market, part pizzeria, breakfast and lunch to start. Details

Zaman Coffee House lands in Camillus. The Middle Eastern coffee-and-pastry café opened a second location at Township 5 on July 2, in the former Colorful Inspirations near the Movie Tavern. CNY Central

And on the way: Steig's Grillhouse in Manlius. Syracuse butcher Liehs & Steigerwald is turning the old bank at 228 E. Seneca St. into a grillhouse — sit-down restaurant, full bar, and a meat counter for steaks and sausages to take home. Details

A deeper look at one person, place, or project in Syracuse.

Ask Troy Evans about his real estate career, and he'll tell you something most developers never would: he doesn't actually like real estate. "I think I used to," he says. What's kept him going is a different question, the one he now brings to every project: "How's this going to make people feel?"

Evans is the developer behind CommonSpace, the downtown brand of 'social apartments' and coworking space he's grown to three buildings, and behind Vanderkamp, an 850-acre forest retreat about a half hour from the city, on the north side of Oneida Lake near the Village of Cleveland. On paper, the two couldn't be more different. He's come to believe they're "the same exact thing."

He grew up in Roscoe, a Catskills town small enough that his graduating class had 22 kids, came to SU in 1996, and picked computer engineering "basically out of a hat" because that's where the jobs were. A project-management job at Lockheed Martin in Philadelphia taught him the lesson that still drives him: getting people to actually adopt a new tool was harder than building it. 

He landed back in Syracuse around 2003, drawn by the idea of a lake house he could afford on a starter salary, and flipped houses on nights and weekends until real estate became the career, and then the routine.

When the first CommonSpace opened twelve years ago, it was new enough that the Syracuse press introduced it to the city as co-living. He says it's 'really self-organizing now,' and they don't do much besides enforce the brand. A group of residents he calls ambassadors, paid a little each month, organize the events: the ski trips, the rooftop parties, coordinated over a Slack channel. And the lease itself describes how to be a good neighbor, the kind of thing you won't find in a typical one.

That conviction is what ties CommonSpace to Vanderkamp. Whether it's a stranger you fall into conversation with on the rooftop or an hour by yourself in a far corner of the lake, Evans is chasing one mental state, which he describes as clear, present, and curious. He runs around 30 corporate retreats a year out there, watches people arrive wound-up and leave decompressed, and figures the woods do something to a person that a conference room can't.

His newest project is the most personal. Evans built Fieldwork, a solo retreat at Vanderkamp, because he wanted one himself and couldn't find it anywhere, the kind of step-away-and-think trip he'd read that people like Bill Gates take. You answer a few questions about what draws you in nature, and Vanderkamp maps you a custom few days across 52 zones of its land, down to which quiet corner of the lake to paddle to. Booking just opened at vanderkampny.com/fieldwork.

Construction and development around the city, in plain English.

Two weeks ago in Clay, the story was chips. This week in DeWitt, it's the boards those chips ride on.

TTM Technologies just opened a new $130 million manufacturing plant in the Town of DeWitt, on the company's existing Syracuse campus. It officially opened June 22, and it is one of the first facilities in the country purpose-built to make Ultra-High-Density Interconnect circuit boards, the dense, miniaturized boards that go inside advanced electronics.

Most of what comes off the line here is headed to U.S. defense platforms: radar systems, missile defense, space-based sensors, and autonomous systems. The federal government is helping pay for it, with a $30 million Department of Defense grant on top of up to $17 million in state Excelsior tax credits and a $5 million Empire State Development grant.

For CNY, the number that matters is jobs. The plant is expected to create up to 400 new positions, which would bring TTM's local workforce to around 1,000. TTM has been a Syracuse company for more than 60 years, and this is it doubling down here rather than somewhere cheaper.

Put it next to Micron's chip campus in Clay and the pattern comes into focus. With federal money behind it, Central New York is becoming a defense- and autonomous-systems hub: the chips in Clay, the boards for radar, missile defense, and space in DeWitt, and the drones out on the Syracuse-to-Rome test corridor, where CenterState's GENIUS NY accelerator and the new INSPYRE hub keep stacking up uncrewed-systems startups.

Coverage from the Governor's Office and CNY Central.

One neighborhood at a time — what's there, what's changing.

The Town of Camillus has done a great job preserving its stretch of the old Erie Canal. Out on Devoe Road, the Camillus Erie Canal Park still runs replica boat rides down the old channel and across the restored Nine Mile Creek Aqueduct, Wednesdays and Sundays at 1, 2, and 3 PM; a walkable towpath and the reconstructed Sims Store Museum sit on the bank.

The Village core on Main and Genesee is the part to do on foot, a tight historic cluster of shops, coffee, and dinner:

A few more to know, spread out beyond the Village core:

This week the town is in full summer mode. The Camillus Farmers Market runs Mondays 1–6 PM at 4600 W Genesee St with live music and Scotty's Smokehouse BBQ, and the free Town Summer Concert Series plays the Bicentennial Park gazebo Mondays 6–8 PM through August 3rd. The Maxwell Memorial Library (14 Genesee St) has family programming running all summer. And the Camillus Park splash pad (1 Pool Rd) is open 11 AM–6 PM through September 6.

Your space — reply and join the conversation.

So much of this week is free — 40 years of Jazz Fest at the orchard, the Monday concerts at the Bicentennial Park gazebo, the loading-dock shows at Middle Ages. Which has us wondering:

What's your favorite free thing to do in CNY this summer?

Hit reply and let us know — we'll feature the best answers in an upcoming edition.

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