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City council will consider a proposal today to pay $174,261 to the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. to supervise grass cutting, debris cleaning and boarding up at vacant structures.

City officials are in discussions with a health-care company for the former Bottom Dollar Food building on Glenwood Avenue, the city’s economic development director said.

Youngstown, Ohio is an upper-midwest city that has come to symbolize the nation’s distress of deindustrialization with high unemployment and crime rates.

The Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation teamed up with local groups to make the city a little bit cleaner.

A new body of evidence suggests that adding greenery in vacant or gray settings reduces criminal activity nearby.