[Florence Developments]

301 Bypass entering 3rd stage.

When complete it will create a bypass from palmetto street (301) near Mcloed Hospital to 3rd loop/52.

In the current issue of The News Journal (the one you get in the blue plastic)

Cheers

That will be 327 by the flea market to 3rd Loop and Irby. It will connect the 2 parts of Freedom Blvd.

[Florence Developments]

The library building itself is a beautiful building. The way its site is arranged is not. Whoever came up with the site plan for that building did not think about its place in the urban environment. It has a rather large lawn out front, but no plaza or shade, or reason to go out there. It caters to the automobile. That is why I don't like it. Spartanburg's is the same way. Our library is a great building, and though it is built closer to the street, the "main" entrance requires you to ascend about 30 steps, and its not one of those grand staircases like on the State House in Columbia. Nobody uses it because they designed it for the automobile.

Florence needs to remember that if they really want downtown to come alive, they need to rebuild it for the pedestrians, and not their cars. That is what will make it successful.

I have no use for Senator Leatherman. He has a tendacy to meddle in places where he doesn't belong.

Anyway, I look forward to see your pictures... Please take some of the library!

The front of the library is actually the Dargan St side facing the Bruce & Lee Foundation offices

[Florence Developments]

The below two images are downtown Florence

Finally, here's what's left after a long neglected eyesore was torn down behind the post office on Cashua. All Star lanes and the BB&T building are in the distance.

Why I even have some of these images on my hard drive is beyond me:)

The neglected eyesore you refer to was an operational mill until a couple years ago.

[Florence Developments]

My Florence development friend asked me to post for him again. This is his post and not mine.

The County of Florence and City of Florence vacated its old buildings in favor for the construction of the city county complex back in the 1970s with the idea of later becoming one entity or one central government. Of the original buildings, the City Hall (or Post office as it is known by out of towners) is still standing. The current building is housing lawyers' offices and is still too small for the city to rent space in the current building. The 7 story Florence Title Company Building is currently occupied by the Florence Fire Department Administrations, Downtown Redevelopment Commission, and the Florence Water Department. The old Florence library is being converted for use either by the church next door or as a part of the culture district of the performing arts area. As far as looking at the success for downtown and abroad, the City of Florence has sent representives from business aspects and residential views to the cities of Augusta, GA, Asheville, NC, Wilmington, NC, Savannah, GA, Denver, CO, Seattle, WA and Greensboro, NC, and has hired members from the team that helped redevelop Baltimore's harbor front. City leaders said they wanted to look outside the state because cities within the state are still developing and or redeveloping and the success of current leadership and philosophies of those cities has not yet shined through to warrant them to look within the state.

You said your friend is on the downtown revitalization? Florence Fire Department Administration is and has been since 1950 located at 144 E. Palmetto St. at Station 1, originally known as Central Station. Fire Codes and prevention is located in the little building next door to the station.