Crandall Park Pavillion Re-Opens After Renovations:
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YNDC
The Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation (YNDC) completed their renovation of the historic Crandall Park Pavillion a few days ago. Crandall Park is a park in the North Heights neighborhood. Though this once wealthy neighborhood is beginning to improve again, Crandall Park remains in bad shape. The park goes along the southern edge of the neighborhood following Crandall Creek. It's really cool to see some interest being put into this park - it has huge potential and could help bring back North Heights, which is a very beautiful neighborhood despite its problems.
The pavillion pre-renovations:
The pavillion after it reopened:
YNDC Home Renovation Projects in North Heights:
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YNDC
Since we are discussing North Heights, let's look at another property that the YNDC have worked on in the neighborhood. North Heights is one of their targeted neighborhoods due to its unique homes, tree lined streets, and relative stability. The neighborhood continues to have a lot of problems, but I am optimistic that it will attract suburbanites back into the city.
230 Upland Avenue - Sold for $66,000:
In other news, the owner of
Downtown Circle will be deported on Sunday - hopefully the business gets passed to someone else. He invested a lot of money to turn it from a convenience store into a mini-grocery store which greatly benefited Downtown. Also, Boardman Township is going to be making a comprehensive plan for future development there. I'm honestly not too excited though as its probably the most hopeless suburb in terms of ever getting anything remotely urban-like.
A new mural in Downtown on the
Harshman Building:
