An
old, blighted structure in Wellston’s south end, located at 1208 S.
Pennsylvania Ave., which once housed bars like Coop’s, Riepenhoff’s, and
Big Jay’s, was one of dozens of properties included in the Jackson
County Land Reutilization Corporation’s (Land Bank’s) list of proposed
demolition projects submitted to the Ohio Department of Development
(ODD) earlier this year in an effort to secure roughly $700,000 in grant
funding through the Building Demolition and Site Revitalization
Program.