City condemns downtown parking deck
City condemns downtown parking deck
YOUNGSTOWN — The city condemned a downtown parking deck because of structural problems identified a year ago that haven’t been addressed.
Yeshohua Weider of Brooklyn, N.Y., who owns A-1 Parking at 23 W. Boardman St., said today he was in the final stages of hiring a contractor to make the repairs, at a cost of about $200,000 to $400,000. But because of how he’s been treated by city officials, Weider said he won’t make the repairs and will instead fight the city in court.
Mayor Charles Sammarone acknowledged that city building officials should have followed up on the problems with the deck months ago, but it was also Weider’s responsibility to make the repairs.
Because the 200-parking-space deck poses an “imminent danger,” said Dana Lantz, the city’s first assistant law director/housing prosecutor, the city condemned it today.
If the improvement work is done, the deck can reopen, she said.
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