Press Coverage

The Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp., the Mahoning County Land Bank, city officials and other partners Thursday celebrated the ongoing renovation of a vacant home on Sheridan Road and the groundbreaking for a new home next door.

The Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation is once again using money from the American Rescue Plan to build new houses in Youngstown.

Over the past couple years, the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation has built new houses on every side of the city — something that, until recently, would have been unheard of.

Executive Director of YNDC, Ian Beniston, joins WFMJ's Malaynia Spiva on Morning Ready to discuss several groundbreakings on the east, west, and southeast side of the City of Youngstown.

For about 15 years, Nick Serra and other Rocky Ridge Neighborhood Association members have implemented and led a variety of neighborhood-improvement projects, though he also is joyous that a few outside entities have come calling.