YMHA awards bid for nearly $1M in improvements to Amedia Plaza facade

YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority has hired a Cleveland company to restore the facade of Amedia Plaza at a cost of $964,326.

The authority’s trustees hired VIP Restoration Inc. today to perform the work on the exterior of the century-old building, which is the former Pick-Ohio Hotel.

Amedia Plaza, 131 W. Boardman St., named for the late Chester A. Amedia, who was authority executive director from 1961 to 1977, is a 13-story high-rise for elderly and disabled people and houses the authority’s headquarters.

VIP was the second lowest of six bidders for the job, with the lowest bidder having been disqualified after informing the authority that it had misinterpreted the bidding documents.

Repairs were made in 2011 after a 40-pound chunk of concrete fell about 20 feet to the sidewalk from above the main entrance colonnade in June of that year. Nobody was injured.

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