Staff Writer
Photo by Eric Ayres
The city of Wheeling plans to raze the former Chase Bank building, at left, to build a new parking garage â estimated to be at least six decks tall â to support the private development of the Historic Wheeling-Pitt Lofts in the former Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel headquarters.
WHEELING — Movement on the $30 million Wheeling-Pitt Lofts project in downtown Wheeling has already started a domino effect of investment expected to continue in the future, transforming a city block that — for the most part — has remained vacant for years.
Earlier this year developer Steve Coon of Coon Restoration and Sealants, along with Dr. John Johnson, owner of the former Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel headquarters building, announced their plans to move forward with a long-awaited redevelopment of the city’s tallest building into a 12-story apartment complex to be known as the Historic Wheeling-Pitt Lofts.