Two More Bite The Dust

Tuesday - July 13: Two more dilapidated houses in Wellsville are gone. Finishing up the first round of Wellsville's share of the Neighborhood Stabilization Program was the last of two houses left to be brought down. As of early Tuesday afternoon the sixth house was a mere pile of rubble located at 924 Wood St.

This house and the one formerly located at 2017 Nevada St. were demolished by X-treme Demolition of East Liverpool. They were awarded the contract that was administered through the County.

The bids in the first round came in lower than what was expected by County officials. This made it possible for County Commissioners to do a second round of bidding with the funds left over.

According to newspaper accounts on June 25, Mike Pusateri Excavating was the only bidder to take down 20 more dilapidated structures around the county. Three of those 20 are located in Wellsville at 801 Wood St., 1401 Main St. & 1735 Main St. Once the contracts are awarded demolition is expected to begin within a month. Besides Wellsville, houses are located in E. Palestine, Lisbon, Leetonia, St. Clair Twp. & Liverpool Twp.

Shown above are before and after pictures of the last two demolished in Wellsville. The first two pictures is 924 Wood and the second is the structure on Nevada.

According to Fire Chief Bill Smith who is Wellsville's housing inspector there are several more condemned structures located in the village that have to go through the process of advertising to locate the owners and then possibly go through Court proceedings. The whole procedure is quite costly and it will be necessary for Village Council to find funding before going any further. The first nine to actually be demolished was funded through the Federal stimulus monies at no cost to the Village or owners.

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