One of the last remaining symbols of Youngstown's steel making heritage will soon be torn down.
On Thursday night, Youngstown City Council approved the funding to demolish the old Sheet & Tube office building adjacent to the former Brier Hill Works, or what is now V&M Star.
About $361,000 is coming in the form of a grant from the Clean Ohio Revitalization Fund.
The building will be cleared away to improve the overall look of the area ahead of V&M's $650,000,000 expansion project.
"We had always wanted to tear it down," said Youngstown Mayor Jay Williams. "But it became accelerated with the announcement of V&M. So we were working on it as a part of the deal even before V&M made that final decision, because it's just important to clean up that corridor, the 422, Martin Luther King corridor."
Mayor Williams said the demolition will start as soon as all the asbestos is removed from the building. The wrecking ball could swing sometime this summer.
