Designing Youngstown's Future exhibit opens at YSU's McDonough museum

YOUNGSTOWN

Scale models and renderings of proposed buildings, open space, parks and gardens – primarily of downtown – fill Youngstown State University’s John J. McDonough Museum of Art as part of the Changing Views | Designing Youngstown’s Future exhibit.

The event, which opened toay, runs through July 22 at the museum, 525 Wick Ave.

The exhibit features planning and design work from the past year by YSU economic-development specialists and students and faculty from three other universities.

“It’s very creative,” said Janet Hazlette of Warren, who attended Friday’s opening. “Some of the projects are financially doable. Sometimes you take little pieces of various exhibits to create something new.”

The displays include work by Kent State University’s College of Architecture and Environmental Design and Kent’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative as well as those from Lawrence Technological University in Detroit and Ball State University in Indiana.

The work includes designs to tie YSU and downtown more closely together, development along the Mahoning River and landscape designs for the city’s corridors.

The projects were done in coordination with YSU’s Regional Economic Development Initiative (REDI).

Read more about the efforts in Saturday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.