{"id":208790,"date":"2026-08-12T12:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=208790"},"modified":"2026-08-12T12:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:02:09","slug":"building-demolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2026\/08\/12\/building-demolished\/","title":{"rendered":"Building demolished&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Best-Auto-1-8-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-208791\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Demolition work on the former Best Auto Sales building on N. Washington St. in Van Wert took place on Wednesday. A Brownfield Grant of nearly $370,000 went toward the cost of the demolition and cleanup. Once work is complete, the property will be redeveloped into much-needed public parking to support nearby businesses and residential units. <em>Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Best-Auto-2-8-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-208792\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Best-Auto-3-8-2026.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-208793\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demolition work on the former Best Auto Sales building on N. Washington St. in Van Wert took place on Wednesday. A Brownfield Grant of nearly $370,000 went toward the cost of the demolition and cleanup. Once work is complete, the property will be redeveloped into much-needed public parking to support nearby businesses and residential units. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 17:34:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208790"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208795,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208790\/revisions\/208795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}