WARREN Council OKs abatements, honors 2 city firefighters

Both firefighters spent a month in the hospital after the fire.
By DENISE DICK
VINDICATOR TRUMBULL STAFF
WARREN -- Council approved 10-year, 75 percent tax abatements for two city companies and recognized two firefighters for heroism displayed in a December 2000 fire.
Albert Guarnieri & amp; Co. Inc., 1133 E. Market St., plans a $1,049,000 warehouse and office expansion project.
The business will add four full-time and three part-time employees over three years with the expansion.
"It's a matter of trying to keep them in the city," Michael D. Keys, executive director of Warren Redevelopment and Planning, told city council members Wednesday.
The other abatement is for Time Warner Entertainment Co. and Eastgate Technology Park. Time Warner wants to consolidate its Weir and Youngstown-Warren Road facilities into one location at 4322 Youngstown Road, the site of the former Hotel Regency.
The hotel was destroyed by two fires in October 1999 and May 2000 and razed in summer 2000.
"We wanted to find a better retail location, consolidate out two facilities and provide a better location for our customers," said Daryl Morrison, Time Warner area manager. "We wanted to do all of that and stay in the city of Warren."
Randall Hake, owner of the planned Eastgate Technology Park, also plans to include retail storefronts at the site, Keys said.
Firefighters recognized
Council members also passed legislation marking Wednesday as Nick Radich Jr. and Daryl Anderson Day.
Both firefighters suffered severe burns when trying to rescue a Williamsburg Street woman from a house fire Dec. 31, 2000.
Their "unselfish acts of heroism" showed "the ideals of brotherly love and compassion in the highest standards of the fire service," according to the resolutions.
Councilwoman Susan E. Hartman, D-7th, one of the legislation sponsors, said council didn't pass the recognition resolutions earlier because they were waiting for a permanent fire chief to be appointed. Chief Ken Nussle was named this summer after more than a year with an interim chief at the helm.
Council members wanted to pass resolutions in October because it's National Fire Prevention Month, she said.
Nussle said the men spent a month in the hospital but returned to work 31/2 months after their injuries healed.