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Youngstown gets state money to raze old Sheet & Tube office building
TweetPublished: Fri, November 20, 2009 @ 6:23 p.m.
YOUNGSTOWN — In another step to secure the V&M Star expansion, the city has been approved for a $630,000 state grant to demolish the former Youngstown Sheet & Tube office building on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
The dilapidated structure, which has been vacant for 35 years, will be torn down, and the area will be used as green space, said T. Sharon Woodberry, city economic development director.
The demolition is important because V&M officials want the area around their Youngstown mill cleaned up, she said today.
“That was one of the desires of V&M. They wanted to see more stability and an overall improvement in area around them,” Woodberry said.
For the complete story, see Saturday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com
Comments
Symbolically , this demolition is very important . So many media images of Youngstown show the depressing rusting YST hulk .
they need to spend money and time to raze the management at V&M. too much disfunction and unorganziation.
wonder where the outrage is about giving tax dollars to a company to locate in youngstown?
ront, it's especially interesting when you consider that, at the time of the mills closing, the youngstown community tried to buy a steel mill to continue operating and employing some people, with federal loans. and then the mill owners wouldn't sell because they said that was socialism. now we finally get money to clean up what those old capitalists who wouldn't sell left behind to rot. i'm still glad it's coming down, though.