Design Review approves Covelli request, hears presentations on other projects

YOUNGSTOWN

The city’s Design Review Committee approved a request from Covelli Centre management to erect a fence to block people from taking a shortcut from a nearby parking lot to the facility.

A chain-link fence would be built between the end of the Olsavsky Jaminet Architects Inc. parking lot and the center to stop people from cutting through a hill area, said Ken Bigley, vice president of JAC Management Group, which operates the city-owned center.

Also, JAC will have a decorative black light metal fence built on South Champion and East Front Street, he said.

“It’s a potential liability issue,” Bigley told the city’s Design Review Committee at its Tuesday meeting about patrons walking on the hill area. “This will get people to use the sidewalk.”

Also Tuesday, the committee heard a presentation from the developer of a student housing/retail structure to be built near the Youngstown State University campus.

Construction will start later this month or in July on the 166-bed, five-story building on Wick Avenue between Rayen and Lincoln avenues, to be called The Enclave, said Gary G. O’Nesti, special-projects director for LRC Realty of Akron, the project’s developer.

O’Nesti confirmed Tuesday that LRC is building a facility on Raccoon Road and U.S. Route 224 in Canfield that includes a Chipotle, Starbucks and a GetGo gas station and will have about 9,000 to 10,000 square feet of retail space.

Meanwhile, the DRC approved plans Tuesday by Chase Bank to take down two of its signs from 6 W. Federal St. and put up two awnings.

Read more about the projects in Wednesday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.