Hazel Street design contract to be considered

YOUNGSTOWN — The city’s board of control will consider a contract with a firm to provide detailed design work for a street extension project to provide a link between downtown and Youngstown State University.

The proposal calls for MS Consultants of Youngstown to receive up to $94,537 for work involving the Hazel Street extension between Commerce Street and Lincoln Avenue. MS will prepare final construction plans for the road as well as the pavement, curbs, sidewalks, drainage systems and lighting.

MS would have until Jan. 18 to finish the design work.

The city plans to demolish seven structures by April 2008 to make room for the street extension, which should cost about $1 million, and the proposed $34.3 million Youngstown State University College of Business Administration to be built in that area.