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nessed the growth of Packard Electric and other local
divisions of national corporations, including the Gen-
eral Motors Lordstown Assembly Complex.
However, with the collapse of the U.S. steel industry
in the 1970s, Warren, like many other municipalities
throughout Ohio and the Midwest, began to experi-
ence a painful, decades-long, economic decline; a de-
cline which it has only recently been able to confront
and reverse.
Paul Makosky is the Head of the Engineering, Plan-
ning, and Building Department for the City of War-
ren, Ohio. He talks about where his city has been and
where he sees it going in the years to come. His is an
appropriate perspective when one considers that the
town’s motto is: “Celebrate our History and Create our
Future.”
“The City of Warren has been dealt a tough hand at
this point in our history. I think that we can predomi-
nantly be viewed as a rust-belt community. We’ve had
a significant loss of manufacturing jobs and popula-
tion, as well. There’s also the corresponding loss of
revenues that make it particularly difficult to properly
AT A GLANCE
WHO:
Warren, Ohio
WHAT:
A small city founded in 1798, Warren is
the seat of Trumbull County
WHERE:
Northeast, Ohio
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