YNDC receives impact award

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. won a Dominion Community Impact Award for its work along Glenwood Avenue on the city’s South Side. YNDC was one of 14 organizations throughout Northeast Ohio selected for an award Tuesday. Clean Up Glenwood Avenue is an ongoing effort to stabilize and revitalize Glenwood Avenue. Over the past year, YNDC has completed multiple projects along Glenwood Avenue including: rehabilitating a four-unit apartment complex and multiple single-family homes, cleaning and greening vacant lots, planting 145 trees, adding LED spotlights to enhance safety at Glenwood Community Park, and reactivating one of the largest underused commercial buildings on the corridor.