Six task forces to mobilize to tackle problems in South Avenue corridor
STAFF REPORT
YOUNGSTOWN
The South Avenue Area Neighborhood Development Initiative is mobilizing into task forces to address specific objectives at 5 p.m. Thursday at Metro Assembly Church of God, 2530 South Ave.
Six task forces will focus on: Crime; Housing and Blight; Neighborhood and Community Building; Businesses, Jobs and Economic Development; Grants, Financial and Material Resources; and Volunteer Resources. Each task force will develop and report on projects to benefit the neighborhoods along the city’s South Avenue Corridor.
This action plan is to tackle the concerns, needs, strengths and opportunities expressed by neighborhood residents, blockwatch leaders, churches, schools, social service providers, real estate investors and local businesses. Specific projects emerged from a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats analysis, with an emphasis on empowering the people living and working in the SAANDI neighborhoods with specific things that can be done immediately.
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