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Contract OK’d to design entrance
By DAVID SKOLNICK
YOUNGSTOWN
The city is moving ahead with plans to build a main entrance for V&M Star’s $650 million expansion project.
The board of control approved a $261,186 contract Tuesday with MS Consultants Inc., a Youngstown company, to design the road, oversee the construction and inspect it for the city.
Construction will begin in late June and be done later in the summer, said Charles T. Shasho, the city’s deputy director for public works. The city will open proposals for the work early next month, Shasho said.
The road will be one to two miles long and cost between $2.5 million and $3 million, he said.
The new road will be on the gravel-drive entrance to the former Brier Hill Slag facility that the city purchased last year for the V&M Star expansion.
The city will front the money to pay MS and for the road construction and be reimbursed by V&M, said city Finance Director David Bozanich, a board of control member.
V&M announced in February that it is building a $650 million expansion project on about 200 acres near its plant on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
The company plans to hire 350 people to work at the expansion site.
V&M manufactures seamless steel tubes for the oil and gas industry.