YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — The Youngstown Design Review Committee Tuesday morning approved a proposal to build a $12 million student housing complex near Youngstown State University. Campus Lofts LLC already has started demolition of the former St. Vincent DePaul thrift store building on Wick Avenue and the adjacent Penguin Place building, where it plans to build […]

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Real estate agents and brokers report a strong market here, even with the fluctuations in the national retail real estate landscape. The retail market was “hit pretty hard” with the recent wave of store closings, but there is strong activity in smaller spaces, reports John Horvath, sales associate with the commercial division […]

BOARDMAN, Ohio — After a month of online bidding, the auction for the former bus garage for Boardman Local Schools closed at 2 p.m. yesterday with a high bid of $305,000 plus a 10% buyer’s premium. The next step is for American Real Estate Specialists to present the bid to the district’s board of education […]

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — Business at Perishable Shipping Solutions in is up three times over 2018, and the co-founder and operating officer, Danny Catullo, says he’ll be looking to expand soon. The question is whether there is someplace where he can expand. From its warehouse on Performance Place, Perishable Shipping Solutions provides storage and shipping services […]

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Court papers filed Thursday allege that the motive behind a foreclosure complaint filed April 15 against The Flats At Wick, a student housing development built in 2012, was the fact that its developer, Dominic Marchionda, is under criminal indictment. The attorney representing Flats At Wick LLC filed a counterclaim in Mahoning County […]

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Sales of houses in the tri-county region last month were up 10% from a year earlier, and are up 5% year-to-date. Statistics assembled by the Youngstown/Columbiana Association of Realtors and the Warren Area Board of Realtors show 480 houses were sold in Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull counties last month, compared with the […]

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Morgan Stanley Bank has filed papers with the Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to foreclose on The Flats At Wick LLC, a student-housing complex developed in 2012 by indicted businessman Dominic Marchionda. According to the filing, The Flats At Wick is in default of a $5.55 million loan it secured through the […]

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Behind a strong month in the Columbiana County real estate market, home sales in February were up overall across the Mahoning Valley, according to data from the Youngstown/Columbiana Association of Realtors and the Warren Area Board of Realtors, as 345 sales closed that month. That number is up 7.1% from February 2018, […]