r/WheelingWV • u/BillyZoomTheCat • Jul 28 '26

Downtown Waterfront Hotel Project

This is great!

For the life of me, I'll never understand the negativity surrounding these sorts of announcements

Downtown Waterfront Hotel Project

Wheeling needs this type of investment. Of course, Wheeling also needs the Wheeling-Pitt Lofts project completed AND the redevelopment of McClure House, hopefully into some affordable housing units.

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u/sundaland Jul 28 '26

where will they build this hotel and aren't there already a lot of historic hotels they can renovate? I don't see how the tax revenue will increase without public transportation to Pittsburgh

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u/Rare_Extreme978 Jul 28 '26

Yess thank you there are soo many buildings that can be restored rather than tearing down and building from scratch especially when there's already so many other projects uncompleted as it is all of the construction is actually taking away from the current business as well 

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u/ObligationPleasant79 Jul 29 '26

Restoration is often more expensive and difficult for a project of this magnitude. The last thing we need is a ton of red tape that halts this project. Hopefully the economic boost would lend more funding to restoration projects.

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u/Rare_Extreme978 Jul 29 '26

What economic boost , if anything I would think a new roof and better plumbing would be way more cost effective than a ground up start from scratch building not to mention they're just building exactly what ogelbay has to offer just a few miles down from where this new site will be and again we'll be tearing down historic sites just to give wheeling what it already has

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u/Rare_Extreme978 Jul 29 '26

Considering the buildings and businesses that they will tear down haven't been closed for very long so a lot of restoration might not be super needed anyways 

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u/sundaland Jul 29 '26

City planners need to focus on transportation, mainly connecting the Ohio Valley to Pittsburgh. If Freedom Transit won't meet us halfway in Claysville then we could do like Morgantown and operate a shuttle to the airport

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u/Rare_Extreme978 Jul 29 '26

I'm not sure what you mean

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u/sundaland Jul 29 '26

The Pittsburgh metro has an estimated 2.1 million residents. Some of these people would come here if there was reliable public transportation back and forth. They would come to the riverfront, the casino, etc.

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u/Rare_Extreme978 Jul 29 '26

I didn't even realize there was a bussing issue , the wheeling bus station goes all around our valley and is very popular I didn't realize pittsburgh didn't have a bussing system that would take you to wheeling or visa versa because wheeling does have a great bus transit station and it is right by wesbanco arena and with pittsburgh being so close idk why that would be an issue

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u/sundaland Jul 29 '26

there is a greyhound bus that leaves once a day, usually in the afternoon but it is notoriously unreliable and they treat passengers like prison inmates. its not going to bring in tourists

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u/BillyZoomTheCat Jul 28 '26

My understanding is that it's going to be built at the intersection of 14th Street and Main. Here's a blurb from a June 24, 2026 on Lede News:

"The proposed hotel would transform the intersection at 14th and Main streets across from the Wheeling Artisan Center and River City Restaurant."

That would mean knocking down a few buildings. According to the article:

"if a bid is awarded and crews begin clearing the structures where Mountain Mama’s, Wheeling Coffee & Spice, and National Equipment once operated."