Youngstown announces tentative deal for Bottom Dollar store on South Side

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 facility within 12 months.

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

The property is appraised at $375,000 and the terms of the development deal has the city selling it for the $150,000 reduced price, said T. Sharon Woodberry, the city’s director of community planning and economic development.

The terms of the tentative deal were discussed today at a city council housing and economic development committee meeting.

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

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