Fire Reignites Debate Over Whether North Side's Station 7 Should Close - WFMJ


An abandoned apartment complex on Broadway owned by the city caught fire and quickly went up in flames.

The wind carried the flames next door to a home being renovated by Robert Pilolli. Pilolli said, "I bought it in 2015 and have been working on renovating it. Members of the Wick Park Neighborhood Association have done a lot of work to try and make this area better. The building has been empty for over ten years, and they haven't done anything with it. The city owns it. We have had problems with vagrants going in and out. We kept it boarded up, and YNDC, the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation, has come here and boarded it up.

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