YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Representatives of Lordstown Motors outlined ambitious plans Friday for proposed plans for the idled General Motors Lordstown Complex, including establishing the plant as its headquarters and bringing its first electric trucks off the line by the end of 2020, state Sen. Sean O’Brien said. Lordstown Motors CEO Steve Burns participated in meetings […]

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Construction of a third building at the site of Joseph Co. International’s Chill-Can complex should begin in about a week, the company’s founder and CEO said Friday. “Building three will start next week,” Mitchell Joseph told The Business Journal. “Work on the footers should begin and the new building should be going […]

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – The development of a new U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic on Belmont Avenue took its first step Tuesday as the Board of Zoning Appeals and City Planning Commission approved a recommendation to rezone two adjacent lots to mixed use-community. The parcels between Francisca and Catalina avenues, currently zoned as single-family […]

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Many details remain to be ironed out for the new Opportunity Zone program, but the federal initiative is already drawing interest in local properties, both inside and outside the designated areas.  The Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber unveiled its Opportunity Zone prospectus Monday at Youngstown State University’s Williamson Hall.  Originally intended to coincide with […]

EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio — After nearly 20 years, the street lights along the state Route 30/39 corridor from this city’s East End to the cloverleaf onto West Eighth Street are going to be replaced with working lights. Mayor Ryan Stovall this week signed a purchase order for just slightly more than $1.3 million for a […]

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Discussions are underway between General Motors and a company interested in purchasing the plant to manufacture electric vehicles, a GM spokesman clarified this morning.  GM’s Jim Cain responded Friday to an online story The Vindicator posted at 10:33 a.m. reporting that Workhorse Group Inc. “is not buying the Lordstown plant.”  That was […]