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The city is negotiating a contract with a health care provider to purchase the former Bottom Dollar supermarket on the South Side.

City council authorized the board of control to sign a contract paying $174,261 to the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. to supervise grass cutting and cleanups at vacant structures.

City council will consider a proposal today to pay $174,261 to the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corp. to supervise grass cutting, debris cleaning and boarding up at vacant structures.

City officials are in discussions with a health-care company for the former Bottom Dollar Food building on Glenwood Avenue, the city’s economic development director said.

Youngstown, Ohio is an upper-midwest city that has come to symbolize the nation’s distress of deindustrialization with high unemployment and crime rates.