Press Coverage


Paul Ciarniello was one of about 450 people who helped clean up Youngstown’s Cottage Grove neighborhood off of South Avenue.
Standing atop a black box truck, “REVITALIZE” emblazoned on each side, in the parking lot of St. Dominic Church, the executive director of the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp., Ian Beniston, shouted instructions to the 400 volunteers.

YSUscape recently cleaned up 10 houses in the Wick Park neighborhood, but that’s not enough for them.

They spent Saturday in the Wick Park Neighborhood cleaning up old- run down homes.

A new partnership in the city of Youngstown focuses on rehabilitating vacant homes rather than tearing them down.