MVB Bank gets Zoning's OK to erect 4-story office in city

CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- MVB Bank got the green light Thursday to erect a four-story office building near Charleston Town Center, but members of the Zoning Board of Appeals rejected a variance request from McDonald's to put up new signage at its restaurant on MacCorkle Avenue near the West Virginia Turnpike interchange.

MVB, a Fairmont-based bank company, needed a height zoning variance of 10 feet in order to add a fourth story to the bank office it plans to build at the corner of Margaret Street and Washington Street E. The triangular site and the small drive-though bank building there, vacant for two years or more, was home to Magnet Bank and several successors.