Neighborhoods

Mahoning Valley TreeCorps is looking for volunteers to help plant more than 60 trees this fall. 

Volunteers are needed from 9-11 a.m. Oct. 16, 17, 22 and 23 to help with placing trees; digging to help expand an augered hole as needed; removing the burlap and cage around tree balls; and raking and shoveling sod and grass. 

Mahoning Valley TreeCorps is an initiative led by the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp., Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership, Youngstown CityScape, the Healthy Community Partnership and other community partners. 

To read the full story from The Business Journal, click here.

The Glenwood Neighbors Business Association is a coalition of neighborhood leaders, business owners, and institutional stakeholders along Glenwood Avenue who work together to improve safety and quality of life, and generate economic opportunity along the corridor and in surrounding neighborhoods on Youngstown's Southside.

The coalition meets quarterly to discuss corridor improvements, share resources, and provide networking opportunities.

To join the mailing list for invites for upcoming meetings or learn about membership, please email gbna@yndc.org or call 330.480.0423.

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

YNDC has recently completed neighborhood improvement projects on target blocks across the City of Youngstown where new homes are being constructed or vacant homes renovated. The neighborhood improvement projects include sidewalk replacement, dead street tree removal, street tree planting, community safety programming including doorbell cameras, targeted home repair and other improvements. Huge thanks to the City of Youngstown for the support of this project!

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

YNDC, with the support of the Healthy Community Partnership's (HCP) Active Transportation Team, has completed the first Where the Sidewalk Ends No More project. The first project installed new sidewalks around Homestead Park on Youngstown's southside. Additional projects are planned for spring 2026! Thank you to the Healthy Community Partnership for the support!

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

YNDC team members Tiffany Sokol and Ian Beniston visited Chattanooga along with colleagues from Canton for All People to learn from the Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise (CNE). Multiple new construction sites were visited as CNE is currently constructing missing middle housing, which is smaller multi family housing units including duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes and other small buildings of 12 units or less.

YNDC has recently constructed five new duplexes on Glenwood Avenue and intends to construct more missing middle housing types in the future including a cottage court on Pearce Avenue.

Tuesday, October 28, 2025 

The Mahoning County Land Bank and YNDC have completed the construction of three new homes in the City of Struthers, City of Campbell, and Village of Sebring. These projects build off ongoing work of the Land Bank and YNDC in these communities that include demolition, brownfield remediation, property acquisition, home repair, and housing counseling.

The homes all have three bedrooms, at least two bathrooms, an open concept living, kitchen, and dining area, first floor laundry room, front porch, and two-car garage. Up to $18,000 in down payment assistance may be available for eligible homebuyers through a partnership with Huntington Bank.

The new home construction is made possible by a grant award to the Mahoning County Land Bank from the Ohio Department of Development’s Welcome Home Ohio grant program. The vacant lots were assembled by the Mahoning County Land Bank. The builder for the project is Joe Koch Construction. The projects also received support from the City of Struthers, City of Campbell, and Village of Sebring.

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

Through the Mahoning Valley TreeCorps program, YNDC, Youngstown Cityscape, and Trumbull Neighborhood Partnership planted a total of 357 2" caliper shade trees in Youngstown and Warren neighborhoods during the fall planting season. Door-to-door outreach for street tree planting for the spring has already begun! Anyone in the Cities of Youngstown or Warren who is interested in having a tree planted in their lawn can request one by visiting our website at https://yndc.org/programs/mahoning-valley-treecorps.

Tuesday, October 28, 2025

YNDC has completed the planting of 85 trees around the perimeter of the former McGuffey Mall site on the east side of Youngstown. The site is currently being cleaned up and remediated by the Western Reserve Port Authority so it can be marketed for reuse. 

Hermitage is getting some help to learn about property conditions in areas of the city.

A survey is being done to collect data on major exterior code violations and document vacant structures.

The Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation is helping with the survey. It will look for roof deterioration, collapsing porches or foundations and peeling paint or missing siding.

To read the full store from WKBN, click here.

As the government shut down continues past the one month mark, there's growing concern over a potential lapse in SNAP benefits.

To fill in the gap, local organizations are coming up with a game plan.

"Our United Way called together all of our agencies that we partner with throughout the year and we had a really big meeting today kind of to see where we all fit and how can we help everyone, not kind of jumping all over each other and really helping in the best way possible," Roxanne Sebest, United Way vice president said. "We fund about 40 non profits in the community, from YNDC, the Mobile Market run by Flying High, Catholic Charities, MYCAP, Direction Home which really serves the seniors, we're working with funders as well like the Wean Foundation, Community Foundation and the Youngstown Foundation. They're all at the table to see how we can try and come together," she said.

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