Youngstown to get more funding for revitalization

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In another step to facilitate V&M Star’s expansion, the city has been approved for a $569,859 Ohio Revitalization Fund grant to demolish a former asphalt plant on South State Street (U.S. Route 422).

This is the second Ohio Revitalization Fund grant the city has received to enable the V&M Star expansion. The city was given $630,000 in November to demolish the former Youngstown Sheet & Tube office building on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

“We’ve got an ongoing strategy of seeking funds to revitalize these sites,” Youngstown Mayor Jay Williams said. “Clean Ohio has been an invaluable resource.”

The city plans to apply for additional Clean Ohio funding to create more urban green spaces, Williams said.

The most-recent grant funds will be used to complete remediation and demolition on a former asphalt plant, which closed in the early part of the decade, according to a press release from the Ohio Department of Development, which issues the grants.

The city of Youngstown bought the property in 2009.

When the project is complete, V&M Star plans to expand onto the property.

The Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund provides grants of up to $3 million for property acquisition, demolition, environmental cleanup and brownfield redevelopment.