YOUNGSTOWN — The city’s Design Review Committee approved new signs for three downtown businesses: the OH WOW! children’s science and technology center, a restaurant at the Wick Tower and a boutique.
The committee voted Tuesday in favor of all three while postponing a vote until next month for a request from Valley Foods System at 335 E. Boardman St. for a chain link fence around a portion of its parking lot. The city’s planning consultant said a barbed-wire fence downtown would make the site look like a “prison.”
The proposal from OH WOW! The Roger and Gloria Jones Children’s Center for Science and Technology, 11 W. Federal St., includes relocating the entrance from West Federal to Central Plaza, removal of a large sign on Federal and the application of an adhesive graphic “OH WOW!” sign on the plaza side.