Realtor suggests selling all 3 Bottom Dollar sites as package

YOUNGSTOWN

Only one businessperson, a real estate broker, toured the vacant former Bottom Dollar grocery store, 2649 Glenwood Ave., during a one-hour period allotted for tours Tuesday afternoon.

Jerome Williams, owner of Youngstown Realty Inc., who has been selling real estate here for 30 years, said he would want to handle the real estate transaction for someone interested in buying that store and the two other former Bottom Dollar locations in Youngstown.

The city is requesting 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.

“I think that we should network and try to sell all three, not one” of the former Bottom Dollar stores in the city, Williams said.

“Now, you’re selling a package. Now, if somebody’s coming from out of the area, now it’s more feasible for them to come to town and put three together,” he explained, adding that all three buildings are only a few years old.

Offering only one location “limits who may be your buyer,” he said.

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