YSU buys last parcel for new business college

YOUNGSTOWN — Youngstown State University has purchased the final parcel of land it needs for its new Williamson College of Business Administration building.

The university’s Board of Trustees voted this week to pay $270,000 to the city of Youngstown for just over half of the former Cherol property stretching from Rayen Avenue to Wood Street just west of Phelps Street.

The city purchased the four parcels of land needed for the project, razed the buildings and readied the site for construction of the $34.3 million business school.

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