Mural graces Glenwood Avenue on South Side

Mural graces Glenwood Avenue on South Side

YOUNGSTOWN — Those traveling south on Glenwood Avenue are greeted by a 90-foot-long-by-15-foot-wide mural that represents the past, present and future of the Idora Neighborhood.

Curtis Goldstein of Columbus finished painting the mural today, after working on it for three weeks, on the north wall of the former Park Inn/Mystic nightclub building on the northwest corner of Glenwood and Parkview avenues.

“We wanted to have something beautiful and exciting to showcase the neighborhood,” said Liberty Merrill, program coordinator of the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp., a neighborhood revitalization agency that has focused much attention on the Idora Neighborhood.

The mural on the 2622 Glenwood Ave. building includes depictions of the former Wild Cat roller coaster at Idora Park, Lanterman’s Mill in Mill Creek MetroParks, a young girl who lives in the community blowing bubbles with the bubbles floating past a group of local residents and ending at a community garden.

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