YOUNGSTOWN - Crews are waiting on a new boiler to be delivered to the same spot where the court repossessed an old boiler just this week. It's the second attempt to get heat to a stretch of buildings in downtown Youngstown after the original plans didn't work out.

On Wednesday, attempts to connect to Youngstown State University's boiler system failed.

Crews told 21 News when they connected all the lines and turned the steam on they found out there were too many leaks. The connection hadn’t been used in years and engineers acknowledged it would be a challenge to restart before the attempt.

Plan B was to buy a completely new boiler and put it back where the old one was on former SOBE property on North Avenue. That boiler is being delivered from out of state. If it comes Friday, the buil

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