Youngstown gets state money to raze old Sheet & Tube office building

YOUNGSTOWN — In another step to secure the V&M Star expansion, the city has been approved for a $630,000 state grant to demolish the former Youngstown Sheet & Tube office building on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

The dilapidated structure, which has been vacant for 35 years, will be torn down, and the area will be used as green space, said T. Sharon Woodberry, city economic development director.

The demolition is important because V&M officials want the area around their Youngstown mill cleaned up, she said today.

“That was one of the desires of V&M. They wanted to see more stability and an overall improvement in area around them,” Woodberry said.

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