heeldom05

there are some new const. projects goin on down hwy. 9 think i know one of them but not sure so will post when i am certain on their purpose. Also maybe i havent seen it but are there projects to reduce traffic on hwy. 9, theres really no way to widen it. one thing i was thinkin of though is maybe widening parris bridge since it runs mostly parallel and putting some connectors up until its connection with old furnace. maybe to divert alot of the traffic that lives in that triangle. lot easier said than done all and all it just seems to be like a really complicated task. i can only imagine if nothing is done what bsprings will look like traffic wise in another 10 yrs. if growth was to keep booming.

i know this is prob. a well documented problem in spartanburg due to all of our ice storms but today i had a tree limb fall and hit a transformer behind my house. well of course i lost power but the transformer blew and sparking up almost like miniature explosions for a while these are in some woods right around trees so i was worried and called and told them the important nature of the problem. well it ends up causing a fire in the woods right behind my house which could of easily caught this building or even my own house on fire and i have to call fire dept. who can only contain it until duke show up or pike. needless to say from the time i called til their response was around and hr. and half prob. would have been longer is the fire dept. didnt show up to call them. maybe understandable during an ice storm but during a normal day its ridiculous and put my life and much of our property at great risk.

as much as i like that boiling springs is growing and it has made everything more convenient in the big picture i think its bad for sburg it just takes more attn. away from our city i know myself i dont have any reasons to go downtown besides 2 fer tuesday at wild wings, but i have realized since boiling springs growth started not saying theres any correlation that spartanburg although it once was a city rotting at the core has really become more revitalized, even though the revitalization is good i would still have rather seen more rest. and shops and even clubs open downtown than more 4 story buildings and a removed oversized hotel same thing with our library. back to boiling springs i don't look for things to slow down in bsprings for a while due to the fact of all the empty land just a mile or 2 up from wal mart i think its just goin to be more everexpanding {new ingles}

this is my first post even though ive been reading the forum for a long time, im from boiling springs and have lived here a good 12 yrs. so i have been here through the explosion of growth, figured i could give an idea of everything that has went up in the past decade. start of from just before the after the new 85 is racetrak,bp,additon to the church, cvs, zaxby's,capri's,fatz, pizza hut, in const. ron's hog pen, parr's and parr 3, grease monkey w/e it is now, post office, days inn, o and at 85 denny's and the hotel next to it and the one across the interstate, some other building are down the days inn road, copper river, pizza inn, ingles,the bank next to it, brusters, the bank next to brusters, the extremely underwhelming dave edwards lot, more of a waste of space than anything, the entire rocky branch plaza, bbt bank, eckerds or i think rite aid now, the bank next to hardee's, sonic, the sherwin williams shop place, another used car lot, the clock, the gas station in the tin building, firehouse subs, the bank next to it which also opened the building firehouse is in, blockbuster, bilo and everything in the bilo parking lot which really ruined the real boiling spring, the small shoppes place behind the corner store, applebee's, walmart and that entire shopping center, gamestop and those shops, chicfila, wendys, bojangles, arbys, tornados, and the new ingles. this list excludes neighborhoods and apartments. basically ive seen bsprings come from a place to ride bikes in the middle of the day on hwy. 9 to what can be an extreme headache during rush hour.