YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – The city’s Board of Control approved Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp.’s grant application Thursday for a federal grant to remediate several environmentally contaminated sites in the city, including a former gas station property on the South Side.
YNDC is applying for a $1 million multipurpose grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, according to Ian Beniston, YNDC executive director. The program allows recipients to do remediation work as well as Phase 1 and Phase 2 site assessments, as well as post-cleanup planning.
The organization is applying for the funds to study and remediate up to seven properties, including a former gas station site on Glenwood Avenue, between Breaden and Carroll streets. YNDC has identified more than 300 properties in the city that are potentially contaminated from past use as gas stations, dry cleaners and other operations.
The city’s approval gives YNDC permission to perform the work on the city-owned site, said DeMaine Kitchen, director of the city’s department of community planning and economic development.
The seven sites in the application also include a property owned by YNDC – 1842 Glenwood – that was used last as a corner store and likely was a gas station at some point, Beniston said. The others are privately owned.