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Campbell company to expand
YOUNGSTOWN
A Campbell company plans to spend about $900,000 to expand to an industrial site on Youngstown’s East Side.
Iron City Wood Products, a pallet assembly and freight company, is land-locked at its seven-acre location on Wilson Avenue in Campbell, said Tina Yanssens, its vice president.
The company is building a new facility at the 18-acre Ross Industrial Park on Youngstown’s Albert Street.
The construction project should take about six to nine months to complete, Yanssens said.
“We’re very excited about this,” she said. “We’ve been looking to expand.”
The company works with steel mills and is moving into the fracking business, Yanssens said.
TPOH1 LLC, a Lisbon company, purchased the Ross property a year ago from the Cafaro Co. to take down a 1.1-million-square-foot building at the park to salvage the scrap metal.
Iron City will retain its Campbell location and expects to move about 43 of its employees there to the Youngstown site and add 14 full-time employees.
The family-owned company was founded in 1987 by Dave and Denise Muslovski, Yanssens’ parents. Her father was killed June 17, 2010, in Springfield Township by a woman who was text-messaging while driving.
Legislation to be considered Wednesday by city council would provide Iron City with up to $80,000 to help offset the cost of building water and sewer service to the Ross location.
Also Wednesday, council will authorize the board of control to accept a $1,775,418 state grant and use $591,806 in city money for environmental cleanup at the former Wean United facility, a downtown industrial site.
The city wants to redevelop the site at 219 S. Phelps St. into manufacturing space, or research and laboratory space for new environmental technologies.
About 50,000 square feet of the 150,000-square-foot building, closest to Market Street, would be demolished.
Wean United closed the plant in 1989. A supply company uses a portion of the property.