For decades, Youngstown, Ohio, America’s red-hearted heart was heart Steel industryProviding families like Mike Chismer with real prosperity.
“This is why my grandparents came to America. But now seeing this, it is heartbreaking,” Chismer said.
CBS News recently visited the city, when the crew were killing a 100-year-old steel mill-as the latest installment in a process that started 50 years ago, it was a heartbeat to see it. A 1982 headline stated that all this: “Youngstown, Ohio, unemployed rate is the highest in the nation” -describing the then -25% unemployment rate of the city.
But business owner Aspasia Lyras says that today the story of Youngstown is not about what they are lost, it is about what they are forged.
“There is no difficult time. Difficult cities do. This is our slogan,” Liras told CBS News.
Its place was the floor of the Penguin City Brooking, an abandoned factory three years ago.
“I just wanted to be a part of this revival,” Liras said.
Derek packs and humming the next door from the next door of McDowell’s flea market when it is open once a month, but when it is closed, the same building looks like a past and looks.
This is another example of using the history shell of the city to launch its future. Even the sun did not come into the building for decades. The windows were hidden under the corrugated metal before removing the McDowell.
McDowell said, “We are going to tell you that once covered to show you that the city of Youngstown has a new life by giving back the light to such a place,” McDowell said, “We have a future here.”
Today, the unemployment rate in Youngstown has only a few points on the national average. The population has become stable, and the number of working people is finally back to the east-covered levels.
When asked what Other cities Liras can learn what they are doing in Youngstown, Liras said, “We can do a lot here, just more than steel.”
The return of Youngstown is not attractive and not a title. This is a heartbeat – slow, stable and raise speed.
