Welcome to Youngstown CityScape’s quarterly newsletter. We are a non-profit community development organization with 27 years of experience revitalizing the greater downtown Youngstown area. In this edition, you’ll find program updates, gardening tips, videos, volunteer opportunities, and much more. We're excited to share some of our most recent achievements and projects with you. We are off to a great start to spring! | | |
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FANTASTIC FUNDRAISING!
CityScape wants to thank the 349 stellar individual donors who helped us raise over $47,000 during the Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley's Boost Week!
WOW!
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Streetscape Kickoff Breakfast Celebrates
Community, Commitment, and Bursts of Color
Youngstown CityScape kicks off Streetscape 2024 at a breakfast on Friday, March 15th at 8:00 a.m. As the non-profit community development organization dedicated to revitalization of downtown and the greater downtown Youngstown area, we welcome volunteers, supporters, sponsors, and the community to join us at our new offices in the IBM Building, 250 E. Federal Street for wonderful food, good company, and the reveal of this year’s Streetscape theme!
The Streetscape Kickoff Breakfast is a free, fun way to salute spring and build excitement for this year’s Planting Day. What better way to celebrate the spring equinox AND the beginning of our annual Streetscape Planting Day campaign as we prepare to take on our biggest planting challenge ever – a six-fold increase in downtown greenspace! This year we are excited to hold this event at the IBM Building and show off CityScape’s new offices with an open house and tour!
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Calling All Streetscape Volunteers!!
Saturday, June 1, 2024 marks CityScape’s 27th annual Streetscape Planting Day. Interested volunteers should sign up online to help beautify the greater downtown area and help us plant new green space. CityScape encourages neighborhood groups to use this opportunity to start making plans for citywide beautification efforts!
Streetscape Day projects will include trimming, planting flowers and shrubs, removing debris, and mulching planted areas. Lunch will be catered by downtown and area restaurants under the big tent. Focus areas include Central Square, West and East Federal Streets, John Young Memorials, South Avenue Bridge Police Memorial, Mahoning Commons, B&O Station, Choffin Hillside, City Hall, Williamson Staircase, Wick Park, Harrison Common, Smoky Hollow, and more.
Anyone interested in volunteering for planting day on June 1st can do so by signing up through the button above. The first 500 registrants will receive a free t-shirt.
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Here's Looking at You Spring!
Happy February! My name is Jack, and I am Youngstown CityScape’s Greenhouse and Outdoor Director. Short form is I take care of the plants. Why should you read my tips? Well, I have over 30 years under my belt in horticulture and spent my career taking care of some of the most beautiful gardens in the world at Mill Creek MetroParks. Boom!
Early spring is a good time to start planning your garden. So, let's dig in
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Everything Old is New Again! | Drive by CityScape’s new greenhouse facility, CityScape at Briel’s, at 23-29 S. Belle Vista Avenue, and you’ll see the renovations we’ve made over the past months. We acquired this 90+ year-old facility in 2021, knowing this was our only chance to save Youngstown’s last urban greenhouse and realize CityScape’s dream to grow our own flowers for downtown planting. Now we’re aligned to give the greenhouse a much-needed overhaul that will help boost the Mahoning Avenue business corridor, the city, and support neighborhood gardeners across the region. | | | |
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Youngstown Day 2024
Youngstown Day, the largest Youngstown-area reunion in the country, was held on February 4th in Sarasota, FL. Many YSU alums were part of this 39th annual celebration of our Youngstown roots!
Credit: River and Heron Productions
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Earth Day Spring Cleanup
Join Youngstown CityScape, EAG, the City of Youngstown, YNDC and Friends of the Mahoning River on April 20th to help clean up Mahoning Ave. Start the day with some delicious coffee from the newest shop in town, Trek Coffee.
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Tree Corps Partnership To Green Up the Valley
Trees do more than add a pretty green element to the street, evoke a favorite memory, or produce a shady spot to sit. They are essential to our cities, much like schools and sewer lines. They improve our lives by absorbing pollutants, supply shade that lowers the chance of illness related to heat, provide jobs, and block wind so utility bills are lower. Over decades, cities across the country have been losing urban trees, the benefits they provide, and the people to care for them.
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This is Going to be a Home Run!
Through Keep Youngstown Beautiful Litter League, the Youngstown City Health District is bringing our city into the Major Litter League, and Team Youngstown CityScape is itching to get up to bat! This statewide summer program motivates community members to strike out neighborhood litter and helps community groups, business/corporate groups, nonprofit/faith-based groups, and families/individuals get involved, compete for their team, win prizes, and clean up our city.
Opening Day is Saturday, June 1st and the season runs until Saturday, August 31st.
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It’s our mantra. It’s our makeup. It’s our rally cry. It’s our voice. It speaks to our first steps at standing tall and shouting out that WE are who and what makes up the Downtown of The City of Youngstown. We Are: Still Here. We Are: Still In Youngstown, with our arms open wide, hoping to see everyone support each other and reach the other side of the chaos of what’s happening in our community.
You Ready? Then, let’s go. Join in, with We Are: A Generation, to get engaged in the work to restore our city.
Credit to We Are a Generation and produced by Appleridge Productions
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Winter Quarterly Meeting Steelite International Headquarters
Many of our members joined us at Steelite International's new headquarters in Downtown Youngstown with a delicious spread from Bistro 1907 that was enjoyed by all. The next meeting will take place on April 18th, 5 pm at Concept Studio, 217 W. Federal St.
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First Fridays Youngstown 2024
Starting May 3rd, Downtown Youngstown will be hopping with First Fridays along the Phelps St corridor and with free shows at the Amphitheater.
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Youngstown CityScape
250 E. Federal St., #432
Youngstown, Ohio 44503
330-742-4040
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