Design Review Committee discusses YSU housing/retail structure

YOUNGSTOWN — Construction will start later this month or July on a student housing/retail structure near the Youngstown State University campus.

The 166-bed, five-story building on Wick Avenue between Rayen and Lincoln avenues, to be called The Enclave, will be finished in time for the start of the fall 2017 semester, said Gary G. O’Nesti, special projects director for LRC Realty of Akron, the project’s developer.

O’Nesti discussed the project today with the city’s Design Review Committee. It was an informational presentation and the project doesn’t need DRC approval.

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

The bank leases all the space on the first and second floors and portions of the third floor and basement, said Timothy R. Meseck, an architect with Architect Partnership of Chicago, which is redesigning Chase’s presence at that building.

The bank will use 2,880 square feet there. The bank was leasing 9,000 square feet on the first floor alone, he said.

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