Demolition starts on three vacant downtown buildings

YOUNGSTOWN — Three vacant downtown buildings near Youngstown City Hall being demolished should be down shortly.

Pro Quality Land Development, a Campbell company, began the demolition project today. The demolition work should be finished in about a week, said Cosmo Iamurri, Pro Quality’s owner.

The vacant structures are at 20 and 24 W. Boardman St. and 21 S. Phelps St.

The three buildings, all 89 years old, can’t be renovated, said John P. Coyne, whose Cleveland-based company, Coyne Investments Ltd., own the property.

The plan is to pave the location and turn it into a 41-parking-space addition to a 23-space lot on the northeast corner of West Boardman and South Phelps streets.

Whether that can be done now or wait until the spring depends on the weather, Iamurri said. If it’s too cold, paving will have to wait, he said.

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