YMHA will demolish a Kirwan Homes building in Campbell


November 19, 2013 at 1:54p.m.

YMHA will demolish a Kirwan Homes building in Campbell

YOUNGSTOWN

Commissioners of the Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority voted this afternoon to demolish a 1965-vintage building containing four apartments at the authority’s Kirwan Homes in Campbell.

The building to be demolished, known as Building 22, is on Murray Avenue and has been vacant for several years.

It will be demolished because it is in a low, flood-prone location on a hillside, said Lester Walker, YMHA project manager. “We just can’t keep tenants in and keep water out,” he said. “We’re going to take it down and just make it into a green space,” he added.

Kirwan Homes, which is named for the late long-time Mahoning Valley Congressman Michael Kirwan, has 31 buildings, each with four apartments.