Youngstown gets two proposals for former Bottom Dollar store

YOUNGSTOWN

The city has received two proposals for purchase and reuse of the vacant former Bottom Dollar supermarket at 2649 Glenwood Ave.

Hand-delivered to the city finance department at 10:50 a.m. today was a proposal from Big Dipper Food Co. Inc., 50 Superior St., Youngstown.

The other proposal came from Valley Christian Church, 282 Manor Drive, Columbiana. Its proposal arrived at 1:15 p.m. Tuesday by priority mail.

The proposals were not immediately opened in the finance department, but they will be received later today by T. Sharon Woodberry, the city’s community planning and economic development director.

Noon today was the new deadline after the city extended the proposal acceptance period one month after receiving no proposals by the original Feb.1 deadline.

The city sought 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.

The city did not establish a minimum sale price.

The Glenwood store, built on 5.1 acres in 2011, has been unused since Bottom Dollar closed in January 2015. It has no shelving, coolers, freezers, checkout counters or cash registers.

However, its plumbing, heating, ventilating, air conditioning, electrical, security and fire alarm systems remain intact.