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Eastern Gateway to hang banners touting the school’s growth
YOUNGSTOWN
Eastern Gateway Community College will hang four vinyl banners on its downtown campus building touting its growth, but a city committee wants the school to come up with a plan for permanent signs.
The Design Review Committee approved a plan Thursday for EGCC to hang the banners — each 17 feet, 4 inches tall and 10 feet wide — between now and Sept. 1.
DRC members asked for a time line on permanent signs at the Valley Center, EGCC’s downtown campus at 101 E. Federal St.
“We’re talking about it,” responded Paul Cramer, director of PJ Associates, the Bellaire company that serves as the college’s advertising agency.
Vinyl banners with the school’s name have been on the building since 2012. They are to remain under EGCC’s proposal.
The banners “still look good, but they don’t last forever, and we don’t want them looking bad,” said Charles Shasho, a DRC member and deputy director of the city’s public-works department.
Also on that building is a vinyl sign for Los Gallos, a Mexican restaurant and bar that closed last year at the Valley Center. One of the new signs would replace the Los Gallos sign.
The sign touts the school’s recent recognition as the nation’s 10th-fastest-growing two-year college with an enrollment between 2,500 and 4,999 students.
Also Thursday, the committee approved exterior signs for A&C Beverage at 45 South Ave., the former location of the Edison Financial Credit Union, which relocated to Austintown in October.
A&C is moving from its current location at 2733 South Ave. and is expected to open next month. The business sells wine, beer and liquor and has a small deli.