A consulting firm is asking a court to order a sheriff's sale of the property that was supposed to be home to a company that promised to bring 230 new jobs to the area.

A document filed by MS Consultants on Tuesday asks Mahoning County Common Pleas Court Judge John Durkin to issue an Order of Sale to Sheriff Jerry Greene, ordering him by law to appraise, advertise, and sell East Side property where the MJ Joseph Development Corporation had planned to manufacture self-chilling beverage cans.

The company failed to meet Monday's foreclosure deadline to comply with a court order to pay the City of Youngstown $1.5 million plus interest and MS Consultants $322,907.54 plus interest.

The company broke ground on the project in 2016 but never completed construction.

Previous civil lawsuits filed by city attorneys argued the MJ Joseph used delays to liquidate or hide assets that were promised to the city.

In 2022 Judge Maureen Sweeney ruled that the M.J. Joseph had breached its contract with the city and that Youngstown was entitled to $1.5 million.

The Joseph Development Corporation claimed the delays began during the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic. City attorneys argued that the plant was expected to hire 150 employees before the pandemic began.

21 News spoke to a resident of North Lane Avenue where the unfinished project sits who told us he was optimistic that another company could take over the property and do something with it.

You can read more about what that resident had to say and what led up to these latest developments in our related coverage below.

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