Austintown trustees OK zoning for Walgreens

AUSTINTOWN — A zone change for a Walgreens near Meridian Road was approved Tuesday by   township trustees.

Visconsi Companies, a retail real estate developer from Pepper Pike, negotiated a deal to buy lots from 10 property owners on the east side of Lexington Place, which is a side street off Mahoning Avenue behind the BP gas station on the corner of Meridian and Mahoning.

Trustees gave the final approval, after the Mahoning County Planning Commission and the Austintown Zoning Commission, to change the zoning for the lots from residential to business.