The building that formerly housed Bobby Mackey’s country music bar in Wilder, located at 44 Licking Pike, is slated for demolition on Dec. 10.
The news comes courtesy of Denise Mackey, the wife of proprietor Bobby Mackey, who informed the Wilder City Council at a meeting on Monday.
After the demolition, nothing else is set to happen for the rest of 2024, she said.
“I’ve taken the rest of the year off, but we’re looking like spring before we even get into the site plan and things like that,” Mackey said. “Everything’s going well. Everything’s going according to plan.”
The bar, long considered a Wilder institution, moved to an address at 8405 U.S. Route 42 in Florence earlier this year. Bobby Mackey’s first moved into the building in 1978.