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I think the Olympia area could really take off. Might be a good time to buy one of those mill houses and refurb it, making a single family dwelling out of a duplex. That'd give a decent sized house. I wonder how much of a pain it would be to bring up to the current IRC.
Same thing for the mill villiage the the end of the Gervais Street brisge. It has the advantage of no game-day and fair traffic.
i thought about that 3 years ago. i even begged my dad for some money so i could start the project. no go though.
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All this may be true, but I agree with Sandy - what is the appeal of going somewhere that large? Its like going to Wal-Mart.
so you can sleep during mass, not get caught, and still be a part of the social network.
i agree though, i like smaller churches better. even the huge cathedrals of old (Notre Dame, St. Paul's and Durham are three I've attended services at) have a more intimate, communal, social, and spiritual feel than modern large churches (not even mega churches, because i haven't been to a mega church per se.)
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i've been experiencing the "new" Lady for a while (i take it coming back from Publix.) although i miss the Meritage, it's nice to have a WW downtown, and i saw a hell of a lot of people there yesterday.
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I think Main St should be an extention of the Vista, and not something separate from it.
i think it'd be great if the entertainment nodes could be linked up; Vista on the West->Vista->Main, going along Gervais to Harden->Five Points.
right now, the Vista and Main Street are running together o.k. and will only get better with the Nick going the other side of the State House...I wonder what'll take its place?
anyway, the Vista and Main kind of run together (Gervais->The Whig, then down Main either way...Jammin Java and Rio before they lost the liquor license one way, Hunter Gatherer/The Nick/Cool Beans going south on Main past the State House.)
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the old house/duplex/apartment building next to Cornell Arms, where Beezer's is, has a sign on it for "Copper Beech Townhome Communities, Now Leasing for Fall 2007" on it, and reserved spaces for the company. any info? hopefully they're no planning to demolish the building...Sammi's used to be there, and Communist Fred's record/dvd/comic book place. i miss his "impeach bush" sign in the window.
anyone have any info?
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a bunch of people are meeting in MLK park behind Five Points tomorrow night and will walk to the Art Bar...DRESSED AND ACTING LIKE ZOMBIES!!! this should be cool. i'd go but i have work, so i'll probably find them on the way towards the Art Bar and take some pics. crazy stuff like this is why i love this town.
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those Harbison tunnels are kinda freaky.
Palmetto Center residential? that's wierd...not sure how it would work on the floorplan. i'd figure that NBSC would be better for residential and the tenants would move to Palmetto Center.
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Still looks pretty standard to me. And it looks like it will have a typical backside facing drivers headed north on Assembly.
This thing should have really gone in one of the myriad parking structures planned for downtown.
at least it looks better than the other CVS downtown (on Bull Street?)
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I think he's talking about the Arnold School of Public Health building. I don't think it's ugly, but right now it lacks context. It will blend in once the other Innovista buildings in the vicinity go up.
my thoughts exactly, although i think they went too cheap on the roof materials.
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The train track that runs between Phase I and Phase II is supposedly going to be abandoned at some point, but there's no timeframe on that as far as I know. As it is now... I can't think of another new development in Columbia where the train comes this close to the residences. But people are apparently paying around 250K for 'em... so whatever!
the townhomes by the train tracks in Five Points on Green street by the Salty Nut...really close to the tracks and the sign says they cost about $500. and there's people living in them.
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Excellent points. I've long said that if you have a family, why downtown? Unless you're committed to private schools.
Plus, if I have $450k for housing, it won't be spent on 1900SF when I can get three times that in Wildewood or Lake Murray.
And much better public schools.
This rash and rush of overdevelopment is frightening.
"They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."
if you're just out of college, single, young, a young couple with no kids or an old couple whose kids are out of the house who now want a smaller place, why not? especially if you work in the area and want to save money on gas. -
It was the line that ran by Blue Marlin. If you drive north on Lincoln, by the Blue Marlin, you will notice around the police station an abandon tunnel. It comes out almost at Hampton I believe. It then cut through Finlay Park, and there's another tunner under in Finlay Park. The tracks have been removed.
that's it.
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Here's another question for you- where should the train station be in downtown Columbia?
The tracks used are the ones that come down what would have been Laurens St between Harden and Gregg Streets, then go over to Five Points, around Maxcy-Gregg Park through USC between Wheat St and Catawba St.
there's an abandoned line running through the vista...you can still see the infrastructure (a few overpasses over the line, a few tunnels.) maybe that could be reused somehow?
to the OP: interesting ideas. i've had a few ideas myself, not as compelte a system as yours though, and sort of based on the light rail in Manchester, England (start out simple and expand.) subways are expensive, so i don't see that happening...it'd be nice though.
Rosewood/N. Beltline (switches with Assembly and Forest Drive/Taylor;) possible extension to stadium/fairgrounds and Olympia
Assembly - part of it makes a western loop around West Columbia/Cayce; the other part goes north, splitting at N. Main and Broad River (which goes to Harbison)
now that there's a loop, make the inner lines:
Forest Drive/Taylor - connects with N. Beltline, Harden and Assembly
a Harden line for Five Points access, and then go from there on extending it out.
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if you're just out of college, single, young, a young couple with no kids or an old couple whose kids are out of the house who now want a smaller place, why not? especially if you work in the area and want to save money on gas.
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