Mahoning Ave. event set for Saturday

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

The Mahoning Avenue Better Block will take place on Mahoning Avenue, between Steel Street and Whitney Avenue, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday.

Mahoning Avenue will be lined with pop-up businesses, outdoor cafes, art galleries, performances, exhibitions, bike lanes, street trees and sidewalk furniture to demonstrate what the street could be, with the goal of catalyzing more-permanent improvements in the future that will support and promote local artists and businesses, group officials said in a news release.

The Mahoning Avenue Better Block is made possible through support from the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp., William Swanston Charitable Fund, Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley, Garden District Neighborhood Association, Mill Creek MetroParks, Friends of Fellows Riverside Gardens, Eastgate Regional Council of Governments, the city, and Councilman Mike Ray, D-4th.

The better block project is a demonstration tool that rebuilds an area using grass-roots efforts to show the potential to create a great, walkable, vibrant neighborhood center. For information, visit www.betterblock.org.

The YNDC is a multifaceted neighborhood development organization launched to catalyze strategic neighborhood reinvestment in neighborhoods throughout the city.

For information, visit www.yndc.org or the Mahoning Avenue Better Block Facebook page at www.facebook.com/events/1650174195224550/.