Stimulate Youngstown

Thanks to Shout Youngstown for doing the heavy lifting on the stimulus requests. It’s too important to miss, so I want to repost what he highlighted from them.

The following projects seem particularly worth advocating, and are good not only for Youngstown, but for the Valley as a whole:

1. establish early-stage fund for companies in emerging technologies at the YBI
$400,000 requested for $500,000 project

2. renovation of 8,600 sq ft building at YBI
$1,000,000 requested for $1,000,000 project

3. training facility for information technology careers
$1,200,000 requested for $2,200,000 project

4. map land available for green-technology manufacturing facilities
$450,000 requested for $500,000 project

5. modernize YSU STEM college laboratories
$3,000,000 requested for $4,500,000 project

6. repairs to YSU STEM college facilities
$2,500,000 requested for $2,500,000 project

7. upgrade to YSU STEM complex
$15,000,000 requested for $100,000,000 project

8. develop program for bachelors in Alternative Energy Tech.
$2,500,000 requested for $5,000,000 project

9. expand roads to V&M star
$7,000,000 requested for $7,000,000 project

10. relocate railway to V&M star
$20,000,000 requested for $20,000,000 project

11. Separate sewers and reduce overflow on Andrews Avenue in Smoky Hollow
$414,000 requested for the $678,888 project

12. Separate sewers and reduce overflow on Marshall Street
$689,300 requested for the $1,130,000 project

13. Separate sewers and reduce overflow on Woodland Avenue
$230,244 requested for the $742,723 project

14. New storm line along Woodland Avenue
$1,000,000 requested for the $1,000,000 project

15. Upgrades for Wick Avenue between the city and downtown
$1,100,000 requested for the $1,100,000 project

16. Upgrades for Hazel Street between the city and downtown
$1,500,000 requested for the $1,500,000 project

17. East Federal Street resurfacing and upgrades
$550,000 requested for $550,000 project

18. construction of downtown 500-space parking deck near Vindy Square
$6,000,000 requested for $6,000,000 project

19. construction of downtown parking deck at Wick and Commerce
$12,000,000 requested for $12,000,000 project

20. ten modified gas/hybrid minivans for WRTA
$500,000 requested for $500,000 project

21. twenty gas/hybrid light transit vehicles for WRTA
$1,500,000 requested for $1,500,000 project

22. ten gas/hybrid 30 ft buses for WRTA
$5,000,000 requested for $5,000,000 project

Let’s insist that investments in tech-based economic development are the way to go in Youngstown, and local and state politicians should be pressed that these projects are at the top of the list.

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