LORDSTOWN Grant would aid expansion

More than half the jobs created would be available to low- to moderate-income people.
THE VINDICATOR
By DENISE DICK
VINDICATOR TRUMBULL STAFF
LORDSTOWN -- The village is seeking a grant to fund a portion of a sewer project that will help a business expand and bring new jobs.
Village council members at a meeting Monday gave first reading of a resolution authorizing the Trumbull County Planning Commission to submit a grant application on the village's behalf.
The state Small Cities Community Development Block Grant would pay half of the estimated $800,000 cost to extend sanitary sewer lines along Tod Avenue south of Salt Springs Road to Hallock-Young Road.
Henn Development plans to expand its business and create 51 full-time jobs.
Henn Workshops bought a Pennsylvania company last year and plans to bring it to the village. The company employs 41 people, and the company expects that number to grow by 10 when the facility moves.
The company, Henn Decorating, will move into the industrial park along state Route 45. It has bought about 180 acres in the industrial park and plans to construct a new building and adjacent parking lot.
Under the resolution, more than half of the jobs created will be available to people of low- to moderate-income households.
To be installed: The grant would help finance installation of a gravity line, pump station and pressure main line.
The village is to pay 40 percent of the project, and Henn is to pay 10 percent.
The Henn Workshop on Country Way off Route 45, a short distance from the industrial park, makes baskets, pottery, stoneware, wooden ware and candles. Employees at the new business, which is to be complete within a year after the village's grant application is approved, will decorate pottery.
Village officials have said they hope the sewer line extension works as an incentive for other companies to locate in the park.
In other business, council members voted to buy two new Chevrolet Impalas for the police department. The cars are being bought through the state cooperative purchasing program from White-Allen Chevrolet, Dayton, for $18,472.75 each.