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City finds Stambaugh Building window plan unacceptable
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YOUNGSTOWN —Your plan is unacceptable.
That’s the city’s message to developer Louis A. Frangos about his proposal to board up windows at the Stambaugh Building in the heart of downtown.
Frangos, who co-owns the historic structure, had employees from two of his companies, USA Parking Systems Inc. and the Frangos Group, start removing windows from building May 28, four days after he said two windows fell from the rear of the structure that fronts East Federal Street.
City officials said Frangos’ companies violated a number of city laws and codes by doing the work without prior notification and approval.
Frangos said his plan is to board up the windows frames with plywood and paint the wood. He had also considered putting plastic around the window frames.
The plywood would only be temporary and Frangos said he would come up with a permanent decision shortly thereafter.
But city officials dismiss Frangos’ proposal.
“Plywood would create a blight condition,” said Brenda Williams, the city’s chief building official.
Read more in Thursday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com
Comments
When will it end??
Why is Federal Plaza still closed?
We have seen demonstrated by Frangos Good things...Even though the Business Journal said differently...visably he has workers at the Stambaugh, and the Realty Building construction crews and Guess what? We are Still bashing him and his company USA Parking,? The Frangos Group,? and just about everyone that parks in the deck downtown?
It has been over over four weeks now--the Stambaugh Building windows can't still be the reason! OPEN THE STREET ! The city allowed the Friday night party on the Plaza to take place,all while serving beer, wine and drunks on the street right in front of the Stambaugh building--that was a much bigger safety concern?
Come on, open the street!
I must agree with the letter to the editor by Caliope Gialousis: Frangos has gotten a lot of criticism, nuch just overkill! He said he has no intention of demolishing the building-- why wasn't that taken at face value? He said that the original plan to board up the window was temporary. The street should never have been closed down, or, at best, should have been reopened within days of boarding the windows up. It makes no sense to have done anything but have accepted what Frangos said that he took the action for safety reasons because windows were falling out and dangers, the city officials admit seeing one fall in front of them, what would his motivation have been to just wake up one day and say lets take out these perfectly good windows that are fine, just to spend some money and board up the building?
The rush to judgment by those who hoped on the bandwagon of some misguided, jealous, critics was truly ridiculous. Someone said, “Who would want to live next to boarded up windows?” EXACTLY, Frangos is doing a multimillion dollar project at the Realty Building, right next door. He has more to lose from permanently boarded up windows than all the folks combined that jumped on the bandwagon to cast blame and spread rumors. How did the Frangos organization, which has and continues to invest in Youngstown, all of a sudden become bad for the city? Wake up, and get off THE BANDWAGON going nowhere. What happened to “If you can't say something good don't say anything at all.”--especially if you really care for Youngstown. I still CAN'T get into my parking spot in the most conveinent parking deck in town.