The Wheeling Village Board of trustees is allowing work to resume on a Kentucky Fried Chicken-Taco Bell restaurant.
The village’s building division issued a stop-work order Feb. 28 for the project on the nearly 40,000-square-foot site of a former Pizza Hut restaurant at 150 E. Dundee Rd.
The stop-work order was issued because demolition at the site on the northwest corner of Dundee Road and 1st Street, had exceeded the limit set by village ordinance.
Before the board voted 4-2 Monday to allow work to resume, Walter Irmen, a representative for KFC and Taco Bell, told the board that dry rot was found at the base of existing walls, and further demolition was required.
The board previously had required the developers to maintain the foundation and walls of the existing structure.
In other action, the board reversed its Feb. 22 denial of permission for the Pico de Gallo Mexican restaurant to move across the street from its current location to 782-784 W. Dundee Rd. in the newly built Geller Shopping Plaza.
The board unanimously granted a special-use permit and approved a site plan for the move.
