Idora Neighborhood Association seeks solutions

YOUNGSTOWN — Lottie and Eddie Lockett love their Volney Road neighborhood and they want problems like corner stores in disrepair cleaned up.

The couple, who have lived in their home since 1975, were two of the roughly 100 people who attended the Idora Neighborhood Association meeting Wednesday night at the Rescue Mission Distribution Center. Corner stores were the meeting topic.

Lottie pointed to the corner of Glenwood and Warren avenues as a problem.

“The South Side is going to be beautiful again,” she said. “We mean business this time.”

James London, association president, said there are five stores located within a 0.7-mile stretch on Glenwood Avenue, four of which sell alcohol. He points to about 100 calls for service in the last four years around those stores that range from homicide to robbery to drunkenness and menacing.

In his three years of living in the neighborhood, London said he’s witnessed littering, loitering and buildings in disrepair. He also hears gunshots at night.

“It looks terrible out there,” he said.

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