WHEELING Construction of the new Market Street Parking Garage continues to inch upward as crews have completed yet another major cement pour for one of the floors. Crews from Carl Walker Construction have been on the site of the new downtown parking structure for several months since ground was first broken on the $12.3 […]
WHEELING – While progress can clearly be seen on construction of the new, multimillion-dollar parking garage along Market Street in downtown Wheeling, concerns are being raised about the progress – or seeming lack of progress – taking place at the former Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel headquarters building. The city of Wheeling agreed to construct the six-deck, $12.3 […]
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.