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City council agreed to use $8 million of its American Rescue Plan funds to develop a plan to build new houses and rehabilitate existing structures. Council voted 7-0 Wednesday in support of the funding.

A community marketplace is planned for the former Bottom Dollar grocery store site at 2649 Glenwood Ave. that closed nearly nine years ago. Rose Carter, executive director of ACTION — Alliance for Congregational Transformation Influencing Our Neighborhoods — said the plan is to expand the organization’s mobile market to the South Side location about three days a week and offer a location for others to sell food and items.

A long-vacant building constructed more than a decade ago with the hope of ending the reputation of Youngstown’s Southside as a food desert could once again fulfill that promise.

City council will consider legislation Wednesday to spend $8 million in American Rescue Plan funds on building new houses and rehabilitating existing ones in Youngstown.

In Youngstown, New Bethel Baptist Church is using $100,000 dollars of American Rescue Plan Funds that the city received to create a community center and they say it'll be useful in more ways than one.