Oakhill gets grant for steam heating system
YOUNGSTOWN
A grant of $2,608,385 from federal stimulus money has been awarded to replace the steam heating system at Oakhill Renaissance Place with modular, high-efficiency boilers serving nine designated areas of the complex.
Oakhill Renaissance Place
Oakhill is the Mahoning County-owned office complex that occupies the former Forum Health Southside Medical Center. Oak-hill is now heated by steam from Youngstown Thermal under a contract that will expire Feb. 28, 2011.
Oakhill is home to the county’s Department of Job and Family Services, Veterans’ Services Commission and coroner’s office, the city health department and the Mahoning-Youngstown Community Action Partnership, sponsor of Head Start.
The Oakhill heating project is among 28 Ohio projects that will receive $15 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s energy efficiency and conservation block grant program for local governments.