Press Coverage

The word "Revitalize" on the marquee of the iconic Foster Theatre is doing a lot of work.

A campaign to repair the marquee of the historic Foster Theater already has raised nearly $1,800 as of Wednesday morning.

The city of Youngstown has been looking for ways to get people to move back into the city and now, if they build new, they won’t have to pay property taxes for 15 years.

One of the people most excited by news that the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. has purchased the closed Foster Theatre on Glenwood Avenue is Steven “Shags” Shagrin of Walnut Creek, Calif.

Neighbors and motorists passing by the Foster Theatre on Youngstown’s South Side in recent years probably know it mostly for its seedy, run-down image.