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Youngstown panel OKs fence at Covelli Centre
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.”
The fence would cost about $12,000 to $16,000 to build, he said.
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.
The work to the 117,000-square-foot structure will be finished in time for the start of the fall 2017 semester, he said.
O’Nesti said LRC is finalizing the cost for the work, but a company official told a YSU board of trustees committee in December that the cost would be about $10 million.
The project would be similar – but smaller – to the company’s University Edge 578-bed student housing/retail complex across the street from the University of Akron.
Retail stores at The Enclave would be on the ground floor as they are at University Edge, O’Nesti said.
“We’re talking to [tenants] we have in Akron [about Youngstown], but nothing has been finalized,” O’Nesti said.
University Edge has a Chipotle and Starbucks, among other businesses.
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.
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. Though Meseck didn’t know how much total space the bank leases at 6 W. Federal St., he said the amount on the first floor alone is 9,000 square feet.