PETERSBURG, Va. — Petersburg is demolishing the last of four hotels that once stood at the Washington-Wythe Street gateway to the city from Interstate 95.
Since the 1970s, hotels sat on all four corners of the intersection, which sees more than 100,000 cars pass through every day. Over the last two decades, the properties became blighted.
“It has not been a good situation,” Wilbert Bland Jr., a local businessman, said…