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Youngstown board signs a $138,950 contract to have a company remove asbestos from 15 properties at proposed chill-can site
YOUNGSTOWN
The city’s board of control signed a $138,950 contract to have asbestos removed from 15 properties at the future location of a $20 million Joseph Co. International chill-can technology and distribution center on the city’s East Side.
The board awarded the contract Thursday to Coleman Trucking Inc. of Cleveland, which had the lowest proposal among five companies seeking the work. The city’s estimated cost for the job was $200,000.
The city’s street department will demolish the 15 properties, formerly 14 houses and one house/bar, after the asbestos is removed, said Abigail Beniston, code enforcement and blight remediation superintendent. The work would take about 25 days to complete, she said.
The properties are on North Lane Avenue and North Fruit Street.
Joseph Co. has the trademark to the “chill can,” which allows a drink to be chilled in less than a minute by turning a knob on the can’s bottom.
The new plant, known as the Chill Can Beverage Complex and Technology Center, will distribute to a territory extending from Massachusetts to Florida and Texas.
It will open next year starting with 50 employees. Within three years of operating, Joseph Co. plans to have about 257 employees.
The business will be bounded by Oak Street, North Fruit Street, Himrod Avenue and the Madison Avenue Expressway. The area was a largely vacant East Side neighborhood.
Also Thursday, the board approved a 75-percent, 10-year real-property tax abatement for Gasser Chair Co. on Logan Way.
The company plans to spend up to $923,700 to convert a warehouse into a manufacturing facility and hire 20 full-time employees.
Gasser would save $46,675 in property taxes and pay $15,558 over the 10-year life of the abatement.
The company makes chairs for casinos, restaurants and hotels.
The board agreed to a $34,500 contract with Technical Choice LLC of Medina to design and oversee the replacement of the 79-year-old irrigation system at its Henry Stambaugh Municipal Golf Course on the city’s North Side with an automated one. A contractor would be hired later this year with plans to replace the system by September or October, said Robert Burke, park and recreation director.
The new system would be automated allowing the city to set a timer and water the entire course at the same time, he said.
The current watering system has park employees hooking up about 12 sprinkler heads at a time, which can be time-consuming as each hole needs five heads and it takes about 15 to 35 minutes for each hole, depending on the weather, Burke said.
Technical Choice will determine the estimated cost for the project, but Mayor John A. McNally has said it is likely to be about $400,000.
About 109 million gallons of water has been lost at the nine-hole course’s irrigation system since 2005 through breaks and leaks.