Press Coverage


The city is taking back ownership of the long-closed Bottom Dollar grocery store on Glenwood Avenue from ONE Health Ohio, which planned more than seven years ago to turn the building into a medical facility.

The administration of Youngstown Mayor Jamael “Tito” Brown is proposing a plan that would create the largest roof replacement program in the city’s history.

The Western Reserve Port Authority is buying properties “that only government could love,” says its executive director, Anthony Trevena.

Youngstown and the surrounding Mahoning and Trumbull counties were rated the second-best city to live in Ohio and number 62 for the best in the country, according to a recent study from U.S. News & World Report on the 150 best places to live in the U.S.

The city’s design review committee approved exterior improvements to three organizations that allow them to get grants from Youngstown’s facade program for their renovation projects.