Press Coverage

The Better Business Bureau serving Columbiana,
Mahoning and Trumbull Counties announced the Torch Awards for marketplace
trust.

The Better Business Bureau serving
Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull Counties will honor four businesses, one
nonprofit organization and a community leader June 15 at its Torch Awards for
Marketplace Trust.

For more than a decade, Gertie Gross and
her husband, Richard, watched as an empty house next to their home on Ivanhoe
Avenue decayed into a den for squatters and drug use. The South Side couple –
who had lived in the Lansingville neighborhood for nearly 60 years – didn’t
imagine the house would ever be cleaned up, let alone rehabilitated and sold. Then
the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. got involved. 

An effort was made Wednesday to
preserve Youngstown’s Lansingville neighborhood — which is on the south side
near Pemberton Park. 

The Business Journal sat down with Chairman Gordon Wean of the Wean Foundation for their Thought Leaders segment.