SitemapWhat was recently a desolate, debris-strewn, deserted and neglected two-block street closed to traffic now represents what city leaders and many other stakeholders hope will be symbolic of the city’s continued regrowth and rebirth. “I’m never getting tired of this — never, never,” Deb Flora, the Mahoning County Land Bank’s executive director, said. “This is the result of tenacity, the spirit of collaboration and hope.”
Flora was referring to the completion of the first phase and start of the second phase of the Bernard Street revitalization project, for which an outdoor news conference and groundbreaking ceremony took place Wednesday morning on the South Side road (recently renamed Cliff View Street) off Glenwood Avenue on the South Side.
The land bank, Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. and other project partners gathered to celebrate the completion of three homes on Cliff View Avenue and the start of three more to be constructed, all of which will be on the same side and have an elevated, bird’s-eye view of downtown Youngstown and beyond.
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