Forest Acres Devil

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."

Ahh, another Columbia/USC boondoggle. This is one of my favorites. Hydrogen fuel cells creating an alternative to fossil fuels? Cost effectively, and WIDESPREAD? Please. Exxon-Mobil, BP, and Shell will never allow it. I'm not a scientist, so I have to qualify my response as a taxpayer. Where do these scientists and researchers send their kids to school when they move to Columbia. Isn't the idea to get many of them to move downtown. Isn't part of the mayor's "master plan" of remaking downtown into a work/live type of place going to address the issue of failing schools in the immediate area? Of course not. Rich white folks who live in Shandon, Spring Valley, or Wildewood send their kids to Hammond or Heathwood. Notice on Channel 2 the well-packaged promo for Canalside. What's missing in that ad? Kids. But, as long as developers/architects, the mayor's law partners, and the rest of city council "gets theirs", what's the harm?