Youngstown Building’s Future Under Debate - WKBN


There’s a debate taking place in Youngstown about the future of one of the South Side’s newest buildings. 

The company that owns it has plans to redevelop it, but others are saying the plans are not moving quickly enough.

The Bottom Dollar building on Glenwood Avenue has been vacant since the grocery store closed eight years ago. Five years ago, One Health Ohio bought the building promising to build a clinic there. But since then, nothing has been done, and people interested in renovating and upgrading the Glenwood Avenue corridor are frustrated.

Youngstown councilwoman Anita Davis and Ian Beniston, executive director of the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation, stood outside the vacant Bottom Dollar building on Glenwood Avenue frustrated that it’s still empty.

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