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WHEELING Officials at Bluefield State College and in the city of Wheeling expressed optimism about potential for collaborating with three local colleges to provide the best possible array of opportunities for higher education in the Ohio Valley.
Last week, presidents of Wheeling University, West Virginia Northern Community College and West Liberty State University publicly opposed efforts by city officials to bring a new program from Bluefield State College to Wheeling.
The city had entered into a memorandum of understanding with Bluefield State, hoping to work together to allow the college to open a new Engineering and Manufacturing Center in a building at the city-owned former Ohio Valley Medical Center.
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The Ohio County Commission approved a $1 million tax abatement for the city of Wheeling for the former Ohio Valley Medical Center campus.
WHEELING The city of Wheeling now doesn’t have to pay Ohio County more than $1 million in taxes owed on the former Ohio Valley Medical Center property, and the Ohio County Board of Education is on board with that.
The Ohio County Commission has approved a tax abatement of more than $1 million for the city of Wheeling, which assumed ownership of the former OVMC site in the summer of 2020.
As part of last year’s deal to acquire the former OVMC from previous owner Medical Properties Trust or MPT, the city agreed to pay legal and brokerage fees associated with the transaction, as well as any outstanding property taxes owed.
WHEELING Officials at Bluefield State College and in the city of Wheeling expressed optimism in possibly collaborating with three local colleges to provide
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Wheeling City Council on Tuesday is expected to hear a first reading on legislation authorizing asbestos removal and demolition on property the city acquired last year on 19th Street.
WHEELING City council will soon decide whether to spend nearly half a million dollars to knock down the former warehouses on 19th Street.
The first reading of the ordinance authorizing that move will come at the council’s first meeting of March at noon Tuesday. That also will be the first meeting in months held in person at the City-County Building on Chapline Street. The COVID-19 pandemic sent prior meetings to the virtual realm, as health and safety concerns prompted city officials to conduct business online.