Youngstown receives no proposals on Bottom Dollar property

YOUNGSTOWN

The city has received no proposals for purchase and reuse of the vacant former Bottom Dollar supermarket at 2649 Glenwood Ave.

The city requested proposals from those interested in buying the 18,000-square-foot, city-owned Glenwood Avenue building, with preference to be given to plans to reopen it as a grocery store.

The deadline for proposals was noon today, and there was no established minimum sale price.

T, Sharon Woodberry, the city’s community planning and economic development director, said she was surprised not to have received any proposals.

“We’ll extend this deadline and put that back out for proposals,” she said.

The Glenwood store, built on 5.1 acres in 2011, has been unused since January 2015 and has no shelving, coolers, freezers, counters or cash registers.

However, its plumbing, heating, ventilating, air-conditioning, electrical, security and fire alarm systems remain intact.

ALDI Inc., which acquired 66 Bottom Dollar stores, including this one, turned this store over to the city last year after removing the equipment from it.