City spends $4.3 million to aid V&M Star expansion

The city’s board of control approved spending more than $4 million for improvement work at the V&M Star expansion site.

The board agreed Thursday to borrow $3.62 million from the Ohio Water Development Authority to build a 500,000-gallon water tower and a 16-inch water line the company needs as part of its $650 million expansion project near its current location off of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

Also, the board approved a $747,000 contract with A.P. O’Horo of Liberty to demolish four tunnels along Roger Lindgren Way, the former South Road, that will be used as the main access to the new plant. [The road is named for Lindgren, the recently retired president of V&M Star who was instrumental in bringing the $650 million facility to Youngstown.]

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