Youngstown dumpsters.

Youngstown, a city in Mahoning County, is home to about 60,000 residents. Youngstown is located in the Mahoning Valley, once a steel production powerhouse that saw its last steel mill close in 1977, leaving extensive brownfield contamination and vacant industrial land throughout Mahoning County requiring environmental remediation. The city has pioneered shrinking cities planning — systematically demolishing thousands of vacant structures to right-size urban infrastructure — generating years of demolition debris removal and site clearing work. Youngstown State University and St. Elizabeth Medical Center anchor the two largest institutional construction programs in the metro. Ohio's severe winters with 58 inches of annual lake-effect snowfall cause significant building damage across the metro. Mahoning County requires ROW permits for containers in public rights-of-way. The Youngstown Business Incubator tech district and Mill Creek MetroParks development anchor post-industrial revitalization construction activity.