The Butler County Tourism and Convention Bureau is selling site of the former Worsley building.
Jack Cohen is President of the Bureau told our newsroom, “We bought the property thinking that we would be able to get a project done downtown and unfortunately that has not been the case. So as we’re not going to be moving forward with that project, our board of directors decided to put the property back up for sale for what we bought it for.”
No one has expressed interest in the property since it was put back on the market last month.
The county tourism bureau purchased the corner lot in the City of Butler for $199,000 in February of 2018 from the Worsley family. At the time, Cohen said several plans were being discussed, including the possibility of selling to another interested party.
Worsley’s House of Color, which sold paint and wallpaper, sat on North Main Street next to the historic Penn Theater in Butler for decades, before it closed in 2014. The building was then heavily damaged by fire and subsequently torn down in 2016.
