Youngstown is a player again.
While the transition from heavy manufacturing to high tech has not come without its bumps, this northeastern Ohio community is steadily turning smokestack industries into green jobs. Thanks to a host of emerging new economy businesses, Youngstown feels -- well, young again. If anybody doubts it, the city even made the coverof Entrepreneur Magazine's August 2009 issue as one of the 10 best cities to start a business.
At the same time, locals point to assets like Youngstown State University, Mill Creek Park -- one of the country's largest municipal parks systems -- the Butler Institute of American Art (housing more than 20,000 individual works) and the recreational opportunities, music and arts as key threads that are sewing the fabric of Youngstown together again.
By Lee Chilcote
Sunday, January 15, 2012
The quaint Idora neighborhood in Youngstown, Ohio, has been ravaged by the downtrodden economy. It's streets are like many in cities across America--the foreclosed houses outnumber the occupied by a significant margin. But Youngstown isn't taking the loss lying down; its community revitalization effort is starting to transform Idora and create a model for cities nationwide.
By Tracy Certo
Thursday, December 01, 2011
What's the best thing a city can do to achieve more economic success? Increase its number of college graduates. The most prosperous cities have the highest number of college grads. Read how the Talent Dividend calculates just how much college degrees add to a city's bottom line--think billions--and why cities from Cleveland to Cincinnati are among the 57 cities competing for the million dollar prize to boost college attainment.
Kitty McConnell
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Country singer Jeff Best cuts a unique figure among Ohio's start-up entrepreneurs. Rather than sporting horn-rimmed glasses and a MacBook, the founder of CountryMusicRadio.com is just as likely to walk into his Youngstown Business Incubator office carrying a guitar and rocking a cowboy hat.
Lynne Meyer
Thursday, May 05, 2011
Craig Zamary's first foray into entrepreneurship began at his kitchen table in 1998. He was 24. He started his second company, Green Energy TV, at age 31. Today, the Youngstown native is teaching other young entrepreneurs about building businesses.
Terry Parris Jr.
Thursday, June 03, 2010
Last month, Terry Parris Jr., a writer for
Model D in Detroit, took a look at Youngstown and its northern neighbor -- two midwestern cities with similar industrial legacies. He found that while Youngstown and Detroit share common economic challenges, each has tackled its problems differently. We've republished Parris' look at Youngstown in this issue of
hiVelocity.
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