Restaurant opening soon on Federal Plaza West

YOUNGSTOWN — Owners of a new restaurant are entering the food industry for the first time because they see a business opportunity in the redevelopment downtown.

“This city has reached a point where it’s going to turn around,” said Greg Sop of Hubbard, one of the owners of Rosetta Stone, 110 Federal Plaza West. “I definitely believe that.”

The restaurant is to open in a few weeks in the ground floor of the former Woolworth building, which in more recent years had been home to a drugstore and office supply store.

The other partner, George Lenahan of Canfield, said the restaurant is designed to draw young professionals and people who are attending downtown events.

The restaurant will serve breakfast, lunch and dinner, and it also will have coffee and pastry shops. For dinner, customers will be able to choose a more casual bistro setting or fine dining on linen tablecloths.

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