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State grant sought for $24M residential plan near YSU
Published: Fri, September 26, 2008 @ 4:46 p.m.
YOUNGSTOWN —City council agreed to apply for a state grant for up to $750,000 for a proposed student housing project near Youngstown State University.
During a brief meeting today, council gave the go-ahead to apply for the funding to help with the remediation and demolition of 751 Elm St. on behalf of Dominic Marchionda, a local developer.
Marchionda is planning a $24 million project just north of the YSU campus, in an area that used to house a Coney Island restaurant and a warehouse.
The project on six acres would have four student housing buildings, each with 40 or so one-, two- and four-bedroom units; more than 450 beds overall, Marchionda said.
For the complete story, read Saturday’s Vindicator or Vindy.com
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here we go...........
Why would you write a title like that? This is just pure instigation. The "taxpayer money" that is being requested is the Clean Ohio Fund, a state grant program that was created to provide funding for projects such as these BY DEFINITION. This title implies that the city is pulling the wool over the eyes of the public. Shouldn't the city be COMMENDED for utilizing a state funding source and forming parnerships with local developers rather than going it alone, pulling development dollars from the city's budget? How about this for a title:
"Council Seeks State Grant for Development Project Near YSU".
I understand objective balances must be struck in reporting. That is not the case here. According to Vindicator, the "opponents" in this round are the taxpayers and the city when what we seek to gain as a community is $24 investment in an area that creates an important link from YSU to the Wick Park district which is a target neighborhood under the Youngstown 2010 plan.
This is an important state program for areas such as Youngstown and it is a good move on part of the City to seek dollars for development through it. Same on the Vindicator for having the public believe otherwise, intentially or not.
Here, here. The Vindy, however, has a history of instigating problems that are not problems once you find out the facts of how things are proceeding. Is it deliberate, or is it by accident. If it's deliberate, then we have a non-objective form of media manipulating public opinion. If it's on accident, then we have a pathetic form of media with a lot of progress to make within its own structure. I'm not holding my breath.
The problem I have is that when Park Place wanted to develop, the university objected and the city dragged its feet--but when it's a local boy, it's a different story. This hand-picking of a select few "local" developers (notice that Hunter Morrison stresses this in the follow up story) makes the city dependent on the same few players and conveys to everyone outside the area that the city is a closed shop to all but a hand-picked group--this is the very mentality that that has kept the city from prospering.
Oldmangrump, I've lived around Wick Park for much of my life as a student and have never encountered problems of crime in that area. I've always felt safe there.
And on top of that, the area they want to develop is right across from the student dorms, heavily patrolled by YSU police, and full of many happy students. You should maybe talk to the young people who actually live there, rather than assuming you know how life elsewhere is. Your ability to render the truth is clouded by your outright, obvious hatred of a place that only exists in your own imagination.
How can anybody construe development that will have a positive effect on YSU's enrollment and the revitalization of Youngstown and the surrounding neighborhood in general as a bad thing? It's just further proof that some people don't want solutions and will interpret anything -- justified or not -- as a waste of time and money.
Some People just dont get it!
didn't they find a dead girl in a trash can over there?
A football player didn't killed over there either. But does the school actually need more housings? That is the main question here. If so go for it, if not don't waste grant money on it, when it might be needed somewhere else.
Question.. Are we not trying to big back life to downtown? Yes there is a need for more housing YSU's housing will be maxed out shortly.
If YSU was not there would we be trying to do anything with that area?
When is the not a murder/rape/robbery/break-in around Youngstown.
There are more police around YSU with the YSU police and Youngstown police. They work together alot.
We need to actually go to the board meeting at YSU and City meetings to see whats going on. Please do not just hear it from someone else.
What ever happened to the plan from the Frangos group to turn the Erie Terminal building into student housing... This plan was supposed to benefit both YSU and Downtown???
It is my understanding that much like myself, enrollment at YSU is at a all-time high; as a state university that offers the most affordable tuition in the state I think their request is quite reasonable given the expectation that numbers will continue to climb.
"What ever happened to the plan from the Frangos group to turn the Erie Terminal building into student housing... This plan was supposed to benefit both YSU and Downtown???"
I don't know when, but I'm pretty sure that project will eventually happen. Frangos was already awarded a historic buildings tax credit from the state for the Erie Terminal, Wick and Realty buildings.