[CPEO-BIF] Robrecht Park Project, Wheeling, West Virginia

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Consulting Firm Eyed for Robrecht Park Project in Wheeling


By ERIC AYRES
Wheeling Intelligencer (WV)
August 13, 2021

Officials in the city of Wheeling continue to take steps toward future development of the proposed Robrecht Riverfront Park, a Brownfields redevelopment project that has already received grant funding for initial planning and architectural design.

Earlier this month, Wheeling City Council approved legislation authorizing City Manager Robert Herron to negotiate and carry out terms of a master consulting service agreement with Stromberg, Garrigan and Associates for the Robrecht redevelopment project.

Plans call for the creation of a green space on the property surrounding the mouth of Wheeling Creek and along the Ohio River in the city’s lower downtown area. The 3-acre site had been a former railroad right of way dating back to the mid-1800s. A tract of the property abutting Main Street on the south side of the creek was once home to the Robrecht Grocery store.

Since the 1970s when railroad operations ceased in the downtown, the Robrecht property has fallen into deterioration, while other commercial sites such as the adjacent Celeron Plaza have been revitalized in recent years.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.theintelligencer.net/news/community/2021/08/consulting-firm-eyed-for-robrecht-park-project-in-wheeling/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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