A remaining American Bantam Car Company building stands in Butler on Monday, Dec. 5. American Bantam is credited with the invention of the Original Jeep in 1940. The building is now owned by Capital Environmental Risk Transfer Alliance, who remediates and redevelops brownfields and industrial sites. Cary Shaffer/Butler Eagle

No decision has been made on fate of the only physical remnant of Butler’s status as the birthplace of the Jeep.

Mark Gordon, the county’s chief of economic development and planning, said one year ago that the crumbling Bantam building, on the former Armco and AK Plant 2 property, now owned by Capital Environmental Risk Transfer Alliance, would be studied to see if it can be saved.

Gordon said earlier this month that CERTA engineers in the summer perused the multistory building, at times using drones because staircases remaining from its heyday are unsafe to use.