BEDI Grant Cleans Up Site, Preserves History and Creates Jobs

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The Wheeling Stamping Building
Ohio Valley Industrial and Business Development Corporation
PO Box 1029, Wheeling WV 26003
(304) 232-7722

The Wheeling Stamping Building had been abandoned and deteriorating for more than a decade in the Historic Warehouse District of Wheeling, West Virginia. The City used an EPA Brownfield Pilot Assessment grant to finance site investigation and the development of a remediation plan for the site, which is located in the Wheeling National Heritage Area. In 1999, Wheeling submitted an application for a $1,000,000 BEDI grant and $2.25 million in Section 108-guaranteed loan assistance for the redevelopment of the building. The City and its developer, the Ohio Valley Industrial and Business Development Corporation proposed the creation of 88,000 square feet of new commercial space in Stamping Building. The renovation of the building was completed in early 2001 and is today home to the high-tech Global Operations Center for the international law firm of Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe. Eighty-five employees currently staff the Center with a total of 250 new jobs to be created at the center by 2005.

• Brownfields Economic Development Initiative Program
  
• Section 108 Program