Hazel Street extension opens today, links YSU with downtown

YOUNGSTOWN — The northward extension of Hazel Street to Youngstown State University cost more than $2 million, and the mayor said it was worth it.

This morning, city and university officials formally opened a two-block northward extension of Hazel Street, a two-lane concrete street, which is designed to link the university with the city’s downtown.

The brief outdoor ribbon-cutting ceremony was under a tent in snowy weather on the center-line of Hazel Street just south of Rayen Avenue.

The ceremony was directly in front of the university’s new $34.3 million Williamson College of Business building, which opened in August. Ten free, two-hour, on-street parking spaces are available on the new street in front of the business school.

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