A onetime state capital, this former steel and coal mining center was on its last legs. Once-booming factories stood vacant, their furnaces silent. A nearby mall had hobbled its lingering mom-and-pop retail, creating an empty downtown that wasn’t safe after dark. After topping out at 60,000 residents during World War II, Wheeling had barely half that in 2000.
“It was a slow deterioration,” said resident Brian Taylor, an artist born in Wheeling in the 1930s.
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