Youngstown approves contract to aid YSU project

YOUNGSTOWN — The city’s board of control approved a $393,000 contract to have six structures demolished and asphalt removed from a parking lot.

The work is needed for a $30 million Youngstown State University building and a street extension project.

The board today hired Pro Quality Land Development, a Campbell company that submitted the lowest of six proposals for the job. The demolition will start in April and take up to three months to finish.

The properties are needed to extend North Hazel Street from Commerce Street to Lincoln Avenue and for YSU to build the Williamson College of Business Administration. The building would be constructed along the proposed extended North Hazel Street near West Rayen Avenue and North Phelps Street.

There is a hold-up to the plan.

Joseph Grenga, who owns the Grenga Machine & Welding Co. at 128 W. Rayen Ave., refuses to sell his property. The 102-year-old, 10,515-square-foot building is needed for the street extension project. The city is suing Grenga to take the property by eminent domain.

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