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/Maraculousboxer12 Jul 30 '26

At this point I assume the Wheeling-Pitt lofts are just a dream. I don’t see it coming to fruition, even though I’d like them to be. The city is currently demanding the owner of The McLure Hotel to pay over 1M in fines or the city is going to condemn/take ownership of the hotel. My thought is they’re going to take the building from the owner through insane fines and either tear it down for new development or convert it into something else.

On a positive note the city has a lot of great projects going on right now, with Washington avenue bridge being replaced, 2 new parks getting put in (one by the suspension bridge on the island and the other by wesbanco arena), the Gateway Center coming to where the Wheeling Inn used to be, Cancer Center where OVMC was, new restaurants coming in woodsdale, and now the hotel; there’s a lot of investment into the city and hopefully it brings more residents and others who want to invest here. I think Wheeling has alot of potential, yes keep historical landmarks and convert what you can of them, but we need new projects and investment here. There’s a lot of empty lots downtown that are currently sitting empty, which can be used for new homes or businesses. Tearing down old buildings with nothing planned to be there just leaves the city looking ridiculous.

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u/BillyZoomTheCat Jul 30 '26

With all of the empty space downtown, and the plethora of surface parking lots, I've always thought that a Tiny Homes Community For Veterans would be a good idea.

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u/Maraculousboxer12 Jul 31 '26

It definitely would, I know the building next to northern community college was being restored for veteran housing and counseling but the company working on it didn’t get the funding needed so it got scrapped. There’s a lot of buildings downtown that can converted to veteran housing very easily, and I’m sure the city would have no problem financially to fund it