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Dollar Tree store coming to Youngstown’s West Side
YOUNGSTOWN
A former Dairy Queen on the city’s West Side is coming down to be replaced by a Dollar Tree next year.
The city’s board of zoning appeals approved a request Tuesday by Cocca Development Ltd., a Boardman company, to reduce the amount of space from the back of the building to the property line from the city’s required 25 feet to 10 feet.
Cocca will build a 9,977-square-foot Dollar Tree at the 3003 Mahoning Ave. location with 30 parking spaces, said Brice Jackson, the company’s design manager. Dollar Tree will lease the property from Cocca, he said.
Dairy Queen shut down more than four years ago after it lost its DQ affiliation and attempted to operate as an independent business. The Dairy Queen building is about 2,900 square feet.
The cost of the project is about $600,000 to $750,000, Jackson said.
Cocca was expected to close on the $50,000 property purchase today, Jackson said.
Though he voted in favor of the rear-space reduction, Charles Shasho, a zoning board member and deputy director of the city’s public-works department, said he was opposed to Cocca’s plan to use Matta Avenue — which is zoned residential just south of where the Dollar Tree will be built — for truck traffic leaving the business and backing up to its loading area.