The YMCA of Youngstown received a $1 million state brownfield remediation grant, while two projects in Warren received a combined $935,520 for improvement work.

The three projects were among 160 receiving funding Thursday through the Ohio Department of Development’s Ohio Brownfield Remediation Program. A total of $61 million in grants was announced.

Gov. Mike DeWine said, “Sites like these do no good when they’re left alone to contaminate the soil and impact the health of our neighborhoods. Throughout the past five years, we’ve changed the trajectory of hundreds of properties that once held our communities back, turning long-neglected eyesores into places of possibility.”

Since 2021, the program has provided about $780 million for 841 projects.

The Central YMCA in downtown Youngstown is getting $1 million for asbestos abatement, universal waste removal, partial demolition and infrastructure upgrades.

The project will prepare unrenovated upper floors and the basement at the building for development into transitional housing for youth aging out of foster care and a new youth development center, which will provide long-term workforce readiness.

The project will create three jobs.

In downtown Warren, a rehabilitation project to transform the 1928 YMCA building into a mixed-use development facility received $635,520, while Trumbull Industries on Dietz Road NE is getting $300,000 for remediation testing.

The former YMCA building project is led by Valley Properties Investments in partnership with Trumbull Family Fitness, which closed in November 2024.

The state funding will remediate asbestos and lead-based paint at the building to prepare it for a mixed-use project that includes 43 residential units, seven townhomes, commercial space and a fitness center.

Redevelopment is expected to create more than 200 jobs.

The project was first announced in 2023 and received about $5.5 million in state and federal historic tax credits.

The Trumbull Industries project is an assessment of soil and groundwater at the site to determine the level of contamination at the former Van Huffel Tube Co. site.

The work will enable continued facility upgrades and expansion by Trumbull Industries.

The project is expected to create 53 new jobs.

Trumbull Industries purchased the site in 1990. The company makes pipes, valves and fittings; kitchen cabinets; appliances and countertops; and industrial supplies

Van Huffel was a steel manufacturer that operated in Warren from 1924. It was sold in 1969 to Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. The plant was subsequently sold to a management company, which closed it in 1987, with Trumbull Industries locating there in 1990.