Thursday, May 22, 2014
YOUNGSTOWN
Mahoning County commissioners learned they now have total control of a Meridian Road property they want to use to build a new dog pound.
Gina Bricker, an assistant county prosecutor, told commissioners at their weekly meeting Thursday that Judge Lou D’Apolito of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court approved the transfer of the property from the Western Reserve Port Authority to the county late Wednesday.
The WRPA agreed earlier Wednesday to transfer the property, which was purchased at a bankruptcy auction in April, to the county. The property is the former Jump Stretch building.
Judge D’Apolito’s approval was needed because the property was in foreclosure and was sold to pay off a debt to a bank.
Bricker told the commissioners the county now has until July 1 to close on the property.
Read more about the purchase and the project in Friday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.