Neighborhoods

The Healthy Community Partnership of the Mahoning Valley continues to impact local communities by helping to make them healthier and more equitable.

The HCP’s efforts were detailed in the organization’s 2024 Year in Review report, released last week.

Along with the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp., in 2025 the HCP will focus on efforts to help connect missing sidewalk segments in neighborhoods, helping to link residents directly to schools, parks and other key resources.

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

YNDC is working on updating the Greater Glenwood Strategy to guide continued stabilization and revitalization in the neighborhoods connected by Glenwood Avenue. Stakeholder feedback from residents, business owners, visitors, and vital partners is critical for refining and prioritizing action plans that enhance neighborhood health, which includes addressing housing, safety, economic development, infrastructure and other key components.

We’d like to hear from you and how you currently interact with the Glenwood Avenue corridor, whether it is to visit friends and family, explore Mill Creek Metroparks, or support a local business.

Please take the survey here.

October 2, 2025.

The Ruth Beecher Charitable Trust awarded a $15,000 Grant to YNDC for clean and green equipment. The grant will be used to purchase a van and hydroseeder to significantly increase our neighborhood cleanup and vacant lot greening activities. Big thanks to the Ruth Beecher Charitable Trust for their support!

Monday, October 6, 2025

YNDC team members have installed 396 cameras this year through the Community Safety program throughout the 2nd Ward of Youngstown and on target new construction blocks across the city. Team members canvassed target areas and installed doorbell cameras at participating households. The program was created based on resident feedback to reduce crime, increase safety, and develop positive relationships with the Youngstown Police Department.

The Community Safety program works with residents, neighborhood groups and the police to build infrastructure among neighbors to prevent crime by building cooperation and mutual trust between residents, corridor business owners, and the police. The program establishes partnerships with households and businesses in violent crime hotspot areas in Youngstown to install doorbell cameras and installs new LED lighting at businesses along corridors in hotspot areas. The Community Safety program will also conduct meetings with residents and police and increase positive interaction with the Youngstown Police Department.

In July, WKBN reported neighbors’ frustration with the lack of cleanup at the McGuffey Mall site. Now, the site is seeing its first visual change in months.

Nick Chretian, director of planning and development with the Port Authority, said they are now making progress. They received a $100,000 grant from the state to find contamination on the site. As of September, Chretian says all of the contaminants that were found have been removed. Over the next few weeks, the Port Authority is working with the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation to plant trees along the perimeter of the site.

To read the full story from WKBN, click here.

Monday, October 6, 2025

YNDC is proud to announce the publishing of its performance report from the 3rd Quarter of 2025!

The performance report highlights the work of YNDC from July to September 2025.

An electronic copy can be downloaded below. 

Shianna Gibbons is the Marketing Coordinator for the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation. Shianna assist with the completion of routine photographic documentation, social media posts, website updates, publication layout, and other tasks as assigned.

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!