SitemapBlue doors invite guests into both the front and side entrances at the newly rehabbed 928 Canfield Road triplex.
The bright blue color represents a Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. signature.
The organization likes to add character to the buildings it rehabs, and a brightly colored door seems to do just that.
To the next person who walks through the blue door, though, that color represents a new home.
“It is real important to the area here,” Tiffany Sokol, housing director for the YNDC, said of the property. “We really wanted to preserve the property.”
The YNDC is in search of tenants for the two, two-bedroom, one bathroom units available for rent at 928 Canfield Road.
The units feature hardwood floors in the living room, dining room and both bedrooms. The bathrooms come with new toilets and the kitchens with new cabinets and counters, and a microwave, stove and refrigerator are included. Each unit has a reserved garage parking space and additional, uncovered parking.
Each two-bedroom unit is available for rent to qualified tenants on a annual lease for $600 per month plus gas and electric. The home, built in 1927, always has been a triplex.
Before the property was donated to the YNDC by an out-of-state developer in March 2014, it was purchased by Rincon Ulysses for $82,680 in September 2006, according to the Mahoning County Auditor’s office.
When the YNDC took over the property, work had to be done to make it what it is today.
“Our crew has been out there the last 10 to 12 weeks or so doing rehabilitation work,” Sokol said.
New windows, furnaces and air conditioners also were purchased for the house.
The YNDC used private funds to pay for the cost to rehab the triplex.
“It’s an important structure in one of our strategic neighborhoods and it’s on a corridor, Sokol said. “If we were to let them demolish it, it would change the look of the street.”
The complex has a third apartment that the YNDC plans to use for short-term renting.
“There’s a pretty severe lack of high-quality rentals in the area,” Sokol said. “Move-in-ready rentals in the area are hard to find.”
The triplex is in the Idora Park neighborhood near the YNDC office on Canfield Road.
“It certainly helps to bolster the Idora neighborhood a little more,” Youngstown Mayor John A. McNally said.
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