Cold Metal building in Campbell getting new tenant


By Jeanne Starmack

starmack@vindy.com

CAMPBELL

The old Cold Metal Products building on Wilson Avenue is finally going to get a new tenant, said city administrator Jack Dill.

Youngstown Pipe and Supply Co., which has locations in Boardman and Youngstown, is planning to move its operations to the building that used to house one of the area’s biggest employers until it closed in the mid-1990s, Dill said.

The 115 to 120 jobs that Youngstown Pipe and Supply is bringing to the old site will mean shared income-tax revenue for Campbell and Youngstown — the building and its property are in both cities, Dill said.

Company owner Vince Pelini was not available Thursday to comment.

Dill said the company is leasing the building with an option to buy it.

“It’s been a long time coming,” he said. The building had to be renovated.

Dill said the planned move has been in the works for two years, and he believes the company, a steel-pipe distributor, now plans to be in the building sometime in May.

“It will be nice to see that building in use,” he said. “And we’re talking about a good company, good owners.”

“I honestly believe that things are going to turn around here,” he added.

He said that over the years, city officials were concerned about the building’s fate.

He said that for awhile, a Cleveland company leased the building just to keep potential competitors from being able to use the machines there.

He said the building’s owners started selling the machinery, and city officials’ big concern was that the facility would be torn down for scrap.

He said that in 2006, a company wanted to move in and turn the property into “an upscale junkyard.” But Campbell has an ordinance against junkyards in the city, he said.

Youngstown Pipe & Supply provides steel pipe, pipe valves and fittings, square and rectangular tubing, structural steels and plate burnouts to industries mainly in Ohio and Pennsylvania, the company’s website says.

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