NILES, Ohio – A who’s who of the region’s community, political and business leaders packed into the Eastwood Events Centre on Wednesday to witness the launch of a new era in economic develo...
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By Guy Coviello We have reached a defining moment in our economic future. Wednesday’s news that our four lake-to-river counties will make up the seventh and final JobsOhio region is a game chan...
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – The four member counties of the newly designated Lake to River economic development region and the state of Ohio as a whole will benefit from the district’s creation, Gov. ...
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Gov. Mike DeWine and J.P. Nauseef, JobsOhio president and CEO, plan to make an announcement Wednesday regarding economic development in the Mahoning Valley. According to a me...
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WARREN, Ohio – Officials with the Western Reserve Port Authority shared plans to develop facilities at Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport to accommodate growing interest in aircraft maintenance...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/port-authority-shares-plan-for-aviation-training-center/
STRUTHERS, Ohio – Shortly after taking office four years ago, Struthers Mayor Catherine Cercone Miller was approached by two kayakers. Cercone drove with them to a spot on the Mahoning River wh...
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Maureen Sweeney on Friday upheld an earlier decision by a court magistrate that ordered the developer of the ill-fated Chill Can project to...
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HERMITAGE, Pa. – The Shenango Valley Mall in all likelihood will be demolished later this year to make way for redevelopment at the site, a city official said Friday. “We don’t have a timel...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/shenango-valley-mall-eyed-for-demolition-site-redevelopment/
GROVE CITY, Pa. – Attracting and retaining employees continues to be a challenge for many Mercer County industries represented at the Mercer County Economic Summit on Thursday. Economic develop...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/mercer-economic-summit-highlights-needs-for-growth/
NEW BEAVER BOROUGH, Pa. – A 150,000-square-foot spec building to be constructed on the site of the former Stonecrest Golf Course will represent the first phase of an effort to make Lawrence Cou...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/developer-kicks-off-15m-building-for-stonecrest-business-park/
WARREN, Ohio – Members of the Trumbull County Tax Incentive Review Council on Thursday approved continuing 22 tax abatements, including one for a company that had fallen short on its employment...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/most-companies-meeting-objectives-trumbull-council-reports/
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Tax incentives for 14 companies will continue after approval Thursday by the Mahoning County Tax Incentive Review Council. Council members, including county, township, munici...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/tax-incentives-renewed-for-mahoning-county-companies-2/
EAST LIVERPOOL – Legislation to move economic development projects ahead was passed at a recent City Council meeting. A resolution was approved to add more than $6 million to the $7.5 million i...
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NORTH LIMA, Ohio – Southern Tire Mart, a tire and roadside assistance company with 233 locations nationwide, has intentions on building a new operation just behind the Pilot truck plaza off Mar...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/southern-tire-mart-eyes-site-in-beaver-township/
NILES, Ohio – A North Carolina company that makes high-performance protective coatings and nanocomposites will open a facility here to do production and research and development for regional cl...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/an-easy-decision-tech-company-chooses-to-locate-in-niles/
CLEVELAND, Ohio – At its sixth annual ED NOW event Friday, Team NEO engaged more than 200 economic development professionals, elected officials and business and community leaders in discussion ...
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SHARON, Pa. – Winner Development LLC was awarded $150,000 in American Rescue Plan funds for the renovation and repurposing of The Landing, 469 N. Sharpsville Ave. The grant is part of $255,500 ...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/sharon-awards-255k-in-arpa-funds-for-revitalization-projects/
EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio – Among economic development plans that moved forward during a series of meetings Wednesday was a resolution for city officials to apply for nearly $7.5 million in grant fu...
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – An appeal filed by the developer of the stalled Chill Can project that challenged an earlier ruling ordering the company to pay an engineering firm more than $322,000 has bee...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/chill-can-appeal-in-ms-consultants-lawsuit-dismissed/
VIENNA TOWNSHIP, Ohio – The Western Reserve Port Authority entered into an agreement Wednesday morning with the Youngstown City School District to acquire and market unused properties the distr...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/wrpa-oks-land-agreement-with-youngstown-schools/
HERMITAGE, Pa. – Penn-Northwest Development Corporation has been awarded $100,000 from the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development for its Homegrown Initiative program. Th...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/penn-northwest-awarded-100k-for-homegrown-initiative-2/
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Keys to capitalizing on development opportunities in the Crab Creek corridor include addressing blight and improving infrastructure, a consultant said. City officials j...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/city-consultants-outline-crab-creek-opportunities/
HERMITAGE, Pa. – Penn-Northwest Development Corp. will host the second annual Mercer County Economic Summit at 8 a.m. March 28 at Grove City College. The summit aims to provide a comprehensive ...
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YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – A comprehensive district redevelopment plan focused on the city’s Crab Creek corridor should be completed by spring, a Harvard Bloomberg City Hall Fellow working for the ci...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/study-will-lead-to-roadmap-for-crab-creek-corridor/
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – JobsOhio, the state’s private economic development corporation, achieved economic and community development milestones in 2023. The state ranked No. 1 in the Global Groundw...
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WASHINGTON – The Senate Commerce Committee on Thursday unanimously passed legislation to designate Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport as a primary airport. The designation will allow the airp...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/senate-committee-passes-bill-to-designate-yng-as-primary-airport/
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – A Mahoning County Common Pleas Court has permitted two attorneys representing M.J. Joseph Development Corp. in its legal battle with the city to withdraw from the case. Judge...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/judge-oks-chill-can-attorneys-withdrawal-from-city-case/
By BILL KOEHLERCEO, Team NEO CLEVELAND – Team NEO accelerates business growth and job creation throughout the 18 counties of northeastern Ohio. As the designated JobsOhio network partner, we co...
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By Anthony TrevenaExecutive Director YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – The Western Reserve Port Authority advanced its mission to create a portfolio of development-ready sites in Mahoning and Trumbull countie...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/kimberly-clark-land-sale-tops-2023-at-wrpa/
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Team NEO released its 2023 Performance & Impact Annual Report Monday, sharing that the organization, in partnership with JobsOhio and the Northeast Ohio Economic Development N...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/team-neo-performance-impact-report-highlights-progress/
LEETONIA – The Global Investment Hub, now open in Leetonia, is an initiative to aid foreign companies interested in doing business in Ohio to start or expand their efforts in Columbiana County....
https://businessjournaldaily.com/global-investment-hub-seeks-tenants/
LISBON – The opening of the Global Investment Hub in Leetonia, assistance for East Palestine businesses affected by the train derailment and improvement grants for Ohio River businesses highlig...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/columbiana-port-authority-has-global-aspirations/
EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio – Rehabilitation of the iconic J.C. Thompson Building on Devon’s Diamond could begin as early as summer after city officials learned another $212,950 in tax credits have ...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/final-piece-of-the-funding-puzzle-in-place-for-thompson-building/
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – The city’s Board of Control approved a job creation grant agreement worth approximately $277,000 to support expansion at Trivium Aluminum Packaging USA Corp. The agreement,...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/youngstown-board-of-control-oks-trivium-grant-agreement/
BOARDMAN TOWNSHIP, Ohio – Safety upgrades to a nearly 2-mile stretch of U.S. Route 224 are intended to alleviate conditions that contributed to almost 1,900 crashes over a five-year period, an ...
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WARREN, Ohio – Downtown stakeholders are in the process of assembling a new organization to encourage further development and promote activity in the city’s central business district. Formati...
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By Melinda Bowen-HouckDirector of Marketing HERMITAGE, Pa. – Penn-Northwest Development Corp. marked another year of remarkable progress at its annual meeting in November. The organization’s ...
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SHARON, Pa. – The city of Sharon, Pa. has earmarked most of the approximately $14 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds it received in 2021, using much of that money to assist city business...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/sharon-unveils-expectations-for-2024/
LISBON, Ohio – Just short of three months after being formally opened by the Columbiana County Port Authority, the Global Investment Hub has its first tenant. The port authority’s board of di...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/columbiana-port-authority-welcomes-first-global-hub-tenant/
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – A Mahoning County Common Pleas Court has dismissed an amended cross claim and counterclaim filed by M.J. Joseph Corp. in October that said it held a first security interest o...
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VIENNA TOWNSHIP, Ohio – The Western Reserve Port Authority’s board of directors approved entering into a $1.9 million grant agreement with JobsOhio to reimburse the port authority for acquisi...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/port-authority-enters-1-9m-grant-agreement-with-jobsohio/
NORTH LIMA, Ohio – Construction of a new Love’s Travel Stops & Country Stores along state Route 7 is moving along at a rapid clip, while other abandoned properties in this section of southern...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/new-developments-underway-in-north-lima/
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge John M. Durkin has granted a motion by a Columbus-area businessman to join a foreclosure action filed earlier by MS Consultants against M.J...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/court-allows-businessman-to-join-chill-can-foreclosure-case/
HERMITAGE, Pa. – City officials anticipate physical work getting underway by midyear on redevelopment of the Shenango Valley Mall property now that longtime tenant JCPenney has ceased its effor...
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – A lender from the Columbus area who was recently awarded a judgment of more than $2.5 million in damages against M.J. Joseph Development Corp. has filed a motion to intervene...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/lender-owed-2-5m-seeks-to-join-chill-can-foreclosure-case/
NEW CASTLE, Pa. – The Stonecrest Business Park project in Lawrence County is one of only 20 applicants moving forward in the Pennsylvania Strategic Investments to Enhance Sites Program. The pro...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/stonecrest-business-park-selected-as-pa-sites-finalist/
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – A proposed manufacturing plant by global consumer products giant Kimberly-Clark Corp. could change the face of the Mahoning Valley, local officials predict. The Western Reser...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/kimberly-clark-property-purchase-a-historic-moment-for-valley/
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – The Western Reserve Port Authority late today approved the sale of 560 acres in the city of Warren to Kimberly-Clark Corp., the Dallas-based maker of personal care products a...
EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio – The J.C. Thompson Building, an iconic landmark on the Diamond in the city, is another step closer to renovation thanks to historic tax credits. Mayor Greg Bricker on Wedn...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/tax-credits-give-boost-to-2-1m-east-liverpool-project/
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – The 7th District Court of Appeals has told the developer of the idle Chill Can project to secure new legal representation and file a brief before the court by Jan. 26 or risk...
https://businessjournaldaily.com/court-gives-chill-can-developer-30-days-to-find-new-lawyers/