Company hired to aid V&M project

YOUNGSTOWN — The city will pay $394,584.77 to a company to clean up a former asphalt plant and demolish a structure there as part of V&M Star’s $650 million expansion project.

The money needed to hire Environmental Management Specialists — with offices in Cleveland, Columbus and Toledo — comes from a Clean Ohio grant from the state. The city’s board of control hired the company today.

Environmental Specialists will remove asbestos and other harmful materials from a former asphalt plant on South State Street in Girard, and then demolish a building there.

Meanwhile, the city delayed the deadline to submit proposals from today to Wednesday for a major railroad construction project needed for V&M Star’s expansion.

Minor corrections, such as changes to the quantity of some materials, to the proposal needed to be made, a city official said.

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