Students unveil suggestions for downtown area

Students unveil suggestions for downtown area

YOUNGSTOWN — Their suggestions ranged from using the under side of the Market Street bridge for festivals to creating information-based attractions for kids and young adults, to moving the bus station from one side of the Mahoning River to the other.

But what a group of 14 University of Michigan architecture and urban planning students all tried to do when they presented the findings today at the Chevrolet Centre was show ways Youngstown State University students can be drawn from the campus to the downtown.

Their work was part of a semester-long master’s degree class at UM.

And what nearly every one of the students stressed was that a large barrier exists just south of Wood Street — between St. Columba Cathedral and Commerce Street — that prevents students and others from making the short trek downtown.

Many of the students showed the same photograph of the grassy hill to the side of the Youngstown Historical Center of Industry and Labor (the steel museum), the two large parking lots at the bottom of the hill, and the obstacle the hill poses to students who might consider driving or walking to the bottom of that hill and beyond.

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