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Economic Development
5 Counties Spend $392M on Remodeling Annually
Monday, March 26, 2012YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Total home-remodeling expenditures in the five-county region -- Mahoning, Trumbull, Columbiana, Mercer and Lawrence counties -- reaches $392 million annually, finds a new report from the National Association of Home Builders.
‘3 Minutes With’ Kvamme, Dearing Execs
Monday, March 26, 2012BOARDMAN, Ohio – Mark Kvamme, interim chief investment officer for JobsOhio, and Richard Dearing and Rebecca Wall, owners and operators of Dearing Compressor & Pump, share the spotlight in today's "3 Minutes With." Kvamme, the featured speaker at the Youngstown/Warren Regional Chamber’s annual meeting, discusses how the developments with shale exploration represent just the beginning for the Mahoning Valley’s economy, as well as Ohio’s, as manufacturing returns to the United States.
StreetScape Projects Earn Group 'Street Credibility'
Friday, March 23, 2012YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- The Youngstown CityScape group celebrates its 15th annual Streetscape project this year and Scott Schulick, chairman of the project’s committee, says Streetscape has evolved in many ways.
“We started as this organization that no one knew who we were or what we were about,” Schulick says. “We had no street credibility.”
Today, the project generates 500 volunteers annually who help on the Streetscape day that takes place the first Saturday of June.
JobsOhio Chief Urges Valley to ‘Think Different’
Friday, March 23, 2012BOARDMAN, Ohio – As Mark Kvamme ponders the opportunities facing the Mahoning Valley and the state of Ohio, he thinks back to a conversation he had with the late Steve Jobs.
Back in 1997, after Jobs had returned to Apple, the then-foundering company he cofounded in the 1970s, he called Kvamme, who had been doing a lot of work with him, late one night and read him an advertisement he thought could help move the company forward.
Port Authority Explains Need for Higher Bed Tax
Thursday, March 22, 2012YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -- Occupancy at area hotels likely will increase with the development of the region’s oil and gas industry, one of the economic development activities the Western Reserve Port Authority is engaged in, a member of the port authority board said Wednesday.
Jim Floyd, designated by the port authority’s board to meet with reporters Wednesday, outlined the agency's economic development initiatives for about 40 minutes following an hour-plus executive session to address the bed tax issue.