Former Bottom Dollar to become health facility, fresh food market, meeting place

YOUNGSTOWN

The city has a tentative deal with a health care provider to purchase the former Bottom Dollar store on the South Side for $150,000 and open a medical facility within 12 months.

City council will vote June 1 to have the board of control declare the former grocery store property as surplus, turn over the deed to ONE Health Ohio, and allow the board to negotiate a development deal in which the agency would pay $150,000 for the property.

ONE Health Ohio provides medical, dental and behavioral health services with a focus on lower-income people.

Besides the $150,000 purchase, ONE Health Ohio will spend $1 million on converting the closed supermarket into a health care facility, $500,000 on equipment and $200,000 for inventory, said T. Sharon Woodberry, the city’s director of community planning and economic development.

The agency will hire 10 to 15 employees for the facility with an annual payroll of about $696,000, she said. The city would get about $19,000 a year in income tax, Woodberry added.

As part of the deal with ONE Health Ohio, the business will provide space for a fresh-food market, Woodberry said. Also, the agency will have a room at the site for community organizations to use, she said.

Read more about the deal in Wednesday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.