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STEUBENVILLE Urban Projects Director Chris Petrossi told City Council Tuesday the nationally known retailer eyeing the old Grant School site before the pandemic is back in the picture.
Petrossi said the company, which has never been identified, “put (its) search on hold for the pandemic but they’re back, actively looking at the community again.”
In October 2019 before the pandemic council agreed to rezone the property to central business district (B-1), paving the way for that unidentified retail developer to come forward with plans for the 0.94-acre site.
Petrossi said a 1-acre site is the developer’s sweet spot.
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STEUBENVILLE The old USW Local 1190 hall on South Third Street is going to be repurposed.
The new owners, STB STR LLC, told Steubenville Planning Commission members Monday they want to turn the building, located at 227 S. Third St., into a residential storage facility, but before they proceed with their plans they need a zoning change – from Central Business District (B-1) to General Commercial and Industrial District (I-1).
The two-story, 70-year-old brick building closed its doors about eight years ago.
“It’s an existing building,” Urban Projects Director Chris Petrossi said. “They can’t move forward until they have the (proper zoning). This is the first step in the process.”
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STEUBENVILLE – City Council nixed a property owner’s request Tuesday to rezone a parcel on Lincoln Avenue so he can start a storage business there.
Council voted 7-0 to accept the Planning and Zoning Commission’s recommendation to deny Phamassociates’ owner Frank Vostatek’s request to reclassify a site at 1028 Lincoln Ave. from medium density residential (R-2) to general commercial and industrial (I-1).
Vostatek said he figured to build between 60 and 80 storage units, telling council he’d need a 35 percent occupancy rate to break even.
Prior to the vote, Vostatek had reminded council his wouldn’t be the only business in the neighborhood.
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STEUBENVILLE Steubenville Council will vote next week on a new, three-year contract for the city’s AFSCME employees.
Council emerged from executive session Tuesday to sunshine an ordinance accepting the proposed contract with American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 2015, which holds the line on wages at least until July.
“There’s no pay increases for the first year,” City Manager Jim Mavromatis said.
“We asked them to hold off 180 days going into this year because COVID is destroying the economy, we’ve got businesses that may not bounce back. We have to see where we’re at.”