More student housing coming to YSU

YOUNGSTOWN -- A Youngstown State University Trustees committee approved a resolution for a private company to lease more university-owned land for student housing and retail.

Trustees Finance and Facilities Committee approved the resolution at a meeting this afternoon approved a resolution for Hallmark Student Housing Youngstown, which already is building a 162-bed student apartment building on Rayen Avenue to exercise a lease option to lease an additional acre of university-owned land for more student housing and retail.

Greg Morgione, university associate general counsel, said the company wants to build additional student housing along Lincoln Avenue and to develop retail along Fifth Avenue.

The resolution is expected to be approved Wednesday by the full trustees board and then will go to the Ohio Department of Administrative Services for final approval.

Because YSU is a state university, the state department must approve all leases.