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I think a Costco or a Walmart Market would be nice in that spot. or a Multi big name stores there. like (Sorry if i keep bringing this up) Metropolitan. Imagine Best buy, Target, as major store clustered together. with a few restaurants other smaller store *cough cough* Gamestop plz and a Garage for parking be built above the stores. to avoid the whole massive parking crater that would possibly be created if a big name store arrives at this location. Also I hope its announced soon and is built along side the Kline City Center development so we can have grand openings of major development in that location all together. ps. can anyone else see Huger St being redeveloped soon. like a whole project to streetscape Huger into something like Assembly st

Retail within the office building would be nice. some spaces for restaurants and or bars and clubs on the bottom floors that would surely drawn more activity to the north side of Main st.

if thats the case im hoping the next announcment of high rise apartments in columbia ends up being like a 35 story tower on Main st or Sumter St. even assembly st. hoping one of these apartments other than the one announced on Lady st will be taller than the capital building and be placed as the tallest building in the state.

The United Way of the Midlands will soon be on the move, leaving its current property at 1800 Main Street and moving to a new location on Blanding Street.United Way of the Midlands President and CEO Mac Bennett confirmed to Free Times that the United Way has purchased the three side-by-side buildings at 1812, 1818 and 1824 Blanding Street. The buildings, which collectively clock in at about 20,000 square feet, were formerly home to Ferguson Enterprises, which moved to Farrow Road a number of years ago. http://www.free-times.com/blogs/united-way-of-the-midlands-to-move-to-blanding-street Loooks like the city is about to make a move soon on that land to start on that High Rise Office tower they've been talking about for awhile now. I would love to see something big and new on that block.

The Columbia Fireflies its a cute name and heres their Logo http://www.wistv.com/story/29703559/columbias-minor-league-team-will-be-called-the-fireflies

Heres the rendering i whipped up. this is the idea i mean of main street can be a great canidate for streets closures nightly

I would love to see Main St Closed after like 6pm but its only closed block by block instead of the whole street. example Lady st washington st hampton st would be open still.

BY SARAH ELLIS [email protected] LINKEDIN GOOGLE+ PINTEREST REDDIT PRINT ORDER REPRINT OF THIS STORY COLUMBIA, SC New details about the high-dollar Kline City Center development on one of Columbia’s most prominent corners include plans for as many as 350 apartment or condo units, with construction beginning as soon as this winter. Homes Urban developer Russ Davis submitted to the city Planning Commission a detailed description that includes requests for changes to the city’s planned urban development district guidelines. Davis lays out a number of plans for the 6.5-acre former Kline Iron and Steel Co. property at Huger and Gervais streets. The Planning Commission takes up the proposal at its Monday meeting. http://www.thestate.com/news/business/article29707228.html Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/news/business/article29707228.html#storylink=cpy

i dont ilke them but we need an Apple Store there.

NAI Avant has been named the exclusive leasing company for 85,000 square feet of Class A office space within the new BullStreet Common office building that’s under construction. The building is located along the first-base line of Spirit Communications Park, which is under construction at the 180-acre mixed-used development on the north edge of downtown Columbia that’s the former campus of the S.C. State Hospital. The office building will offer views of the baseball park, which will be the home of the city’s new minor league baseball team. In addition, Spirit Park will be open year round and serve as multi-use entertainment venue. http://columbiabusinessreport.com/news/55223-nai-avant-to-lease-office-space-in-new-ballpark-building

Im sorry. well let me explain. example they said they was supposed to have a few or many just 1 anchor store in Bull Street Commons. well Why not as an anchor store it be a center piece for most high end business. like Target, Best buy, Walmart Market maybe, and what not. and that complex has really big condos apartment hotels condos and lofts. and surrounding that complex going outwards leading away from the Metropolitan Style complex is a Birkdale style complex connecting to it. the smaller Town center like buildings and shops and stores and what not. all the way up to where the Baseball stadium is at. Im saying it will give it the best of both worlds in buildings living shopping and such. do that make sense?

Go to Google and look up Metropolitan at Midtown. I think a mixture of both Anchor Stores and such features a Metropolitan style complex and a Birkdale style town around the area and Stadium.

According to WISTV. The Name and Logo for our new Baseball Team will be released next week. This is exciting news. and im pretty sure the topic is gonna come up along with the team and logo where are the retailers who so called are coming at the same time of the opening of the stadium. lets hope along with this team presentation that we get some insite on the I think 41 retailers coming to our great city soon. PS. i really hope Columbia Commons area turns into something like Metropolitan in Charlotte. Cluster of major retailers mixed with stores and restaurants we've never seen before in our state mixed with Living spaces. Some 7-8 story Condos lofts apartments studios with 2 levels of retails. Im just wishfully thinking Just saying.

I wonder where the balance of student housing and Regular housing will come into play soon? I think Green Street should be a good mix of both. especially when it comes to getting riverfront property. I wonder how much of that land of the Innovista Project is supposed to be Student housing in the first place? also another question. Anyone know why that 29 Story Student Apartment plan died? I really think that Tower would still look good in that area like right across the street from the Arena. but designed different to comply with the Innovista design zoning. From my knowledge of the zoning of Innovista. buildings lining Greene St facing towards Greene street are supposed to be taller but i dont know by how much. I know closer to the riverfront I seen zoning calling for 10+ floor buildings I was wondering if that same zone applies for the front facing buildings of greene st

well i remember the city is trying to change the zone for that plot of land so the developer can build high as he wants. its supposed to be residential non student housing. thats all I know

Aloft or the Possible High Rise?

Yeah this is the office building area near the entrance. that hole you see on the right side going down is the stadium area where the seats will be at.

Taking more picture of the Bull St property before most of these go bye bye

I took another picture this time on the other side.

Who was the one who made the Development Map. I would like to know how to do so or have you make an update on the status of project in Columbia right now. I would like to Update it on my Website also.

By Aug 11 they will speak on Bull Street Commons. and i think by then we will have our Answers on who will be coming to the area as businesses. I hope they have the answer we are looking for. because I know the longer they wait the more people make speculations that they dont exist.

Thats beautiful. this should add even more density to the vista

I think The whole relocating thing is wrong all together. because when i was in Atlanta I talked to this Homeless women when i was there and thats what Atlanta did with their homeless. they moved them outside of the city when the olympics was coming to town. threw them outside of the city far away and said well yall have to find yall way around now. Rehabilitation is a good thing but only if the individual wants the help. the ones who wants the help should recieve it. the ones who refuses help should be the ones that should be forced out of the city because they dont want better. now for these "homeless" shelters I call bullcrap on all of them because for the face of when me and my family was homeless 6 years ago. those shelters wouldnt take us in at all. They told me I had to be put up in a foster home. my father had to be on the streets and my mom was the only one aloud help. basically told us they wont help us unless we was a broken family. my parents divorced and what not. We need a new type of shelter in columbia that actually helps people and family. that actually cares about the ones who wants to make it. but for now we have major shelters in downtown who doesnt gives 2 rats butt about the people they are supposely" helping"

A bar and restaurant called Main Street Public House is set to open later this year in the McCrory building at the corner of Main and Taylor streets in Columbia.Free Times has confirmed that the owner of Charleston's King Street Public House, a sports bar and gastropub that opened last year on Charleston's upscale downtown corridor, is planning to open a restaurant and bar here. A liquor notice for the business went up this week. http://www.free-times.com/blogs/charleston-sports-bar-owner-to-open-restaurant-on-columbias-main-street This is really good I can already imagine foot traffic increasing on Main in the coming months after it opens

Yes, surface parking saps the energy out of a downtown, but this will probably be an improvement over the way it is now. I don't want to see it fail, but I am still not thrilled about Twin Peaks. I wish that location could have been a high end steak house. I'm a little disappointed it opened in the Vista, and hope there won't be any other businesses with faux antelopes, or whatever, greeting visitors to the nicest entertainment district in our city. I don't understand why everyone hates twin peaks so much?