100 Apartments Coming to Former Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Building:
Source:
The Intelligencer
A long proposed project will finally move forward in the coming weeks. A $20 million renovation to the Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Building will add over 100 market rate apartments and retail space to Downtown Wheeling. The developers, Coon Restoration & Sealants, hope to complete the project by the end of 2019. The 13 story building was completed in 1907 and was once the tallest in West Virginia. The building is almost completely abandoned today.
In addition to this project, city officials hope to get a new parking garage built on the surface lot across the street from the building. Mayor Glen Elliot hopes that the garage will look "as little like a garage as possible" and will include first floor retail. 100 spaces would be reserved for residents of the building, the rest would be for Health Plan workers and other Downtown visitors.
The Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel Building:
The building from afar:
Location of the building:
1144 Market Street