Officials launch $4.4M Wick Avenue project

YOUNGSTOWN — Officials with the city, Youngstown State University, Youngstown CityScape and others had a ground-breaking ceremony today on a $4.4 million project to improve Wick Avenue.

The project is along Wick between Wood Street and McGuffey Road and will take a year to complete.

“We’re going to completely change the look of the street,” said Mayor John A. McNally.

The project includes paving, burying utility wires, widening sidewalks, new lighting, replacing a sewer line, replacing two waterlines with one, reducing the three-lane road to two with the middle being a turning lane, and new signs.

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