New life could soon be coming to the dormant Steubenville campus of Eastern Gateway Community College. Youngstown State University has reached a tentative agreement to establish a satellite campus on a portion of the community college's main campus, almost a year after Eastern Gateway closed.

Jefferson County Commissioners Tony Morelli said Monday the county, the Eastern Gateway Community College Governing Board and Youngstown State University had reached a tentative deal.

"I feel positive," Morelli said. "I think Youngstown State, I've said it before, is a great asset to the situation that we're in: to have an empty building and end up with a four-year state university, that's good, instead of a big empty building."

The commissioners had sued to try to revert control of the property fr

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