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I'll tell the consultants. There is a meeting tonight at the Kroc Center to discuss the plans.

Yes, everything that you say is correct. However, city officials are well aware of the effect of increasing property values on current neighborhood residents. There are things (like affordable housing initiatives, and homestead exemptions) that can ameliorate the trend, but it is a dilemma. I would argue that the gentrification process is already well underway. Just go up Hampton Avenue and see the flipped houses making their way up to the 700 block. I agree that the park will exacerbate this--but likely not as much as the Kroc Center and Whittenberg already have.

Yes. The location of the proposed park is in a current flood plane (that is why they want to get Public Works out of there). As far as I know (and I attended about three workshops on this project) no residential structures are scheduled to be torn down because of this park.

I never understand how folks willing to invest tens of thousands of dollars in a business venture can't manage to get a PDF of these zoning forms and use Acrobat Pro to insert typed text. If I had that much riding on a business application, I wouldn't let other folks see my lousy handwriting.

Demolition of the Hampton Avenue Bridge began the other day.

I've been confused about this. Poinsett HWY turns into rutherford at the city limits. (I think Poinsett Bar and Grill is on the outside of the border). I know there is the "welcome to greenville" sign at Cherrydale by Chic-fil-a, but is that the official boundary. Where is the city limit on Poinsett?

@PoinsettProject

video about the project www.greenvillecounty.org/apps/video/video/PoinsettDistrict.wmv

No one has been assigned to the project full time. But some higher level admins were directed to help organize/coordinate the project. And they created a new tenure line in the sociology department to hire someone who does research on urban/suburban development. Again, the Poinsett project is just one part of these folks' workload, but institutional resources are being diverted to contribute to the project.

At the link you'll find jpgs of the brochure/booklet being passed around at Furman. http://www.city-data.com/forum/greenville-spartanburg-area/1496895-poinsett-hwy-revitalization-project.html

"micro-distillery" coming to old G magazine space? http://www.mycroburs...13/draft/443847

Isn't that the address of Cantinflas? Are they moving?