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  3. Finlay Park/Three Rivers Greenway /Rails-to-Trails System

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    Posted · Edited by lucjanrc

    23 hours ago, carolinagarnet said:

    Ah I see, so it goes from the park, underneath the Blanding-Gadsden intersection, and eventually past the Pavilion Towers to Elmwood. Does the plan include any improvements to the area under the Elmwood bridge? I imagine that it might feel somewhat unsafe in poor lighting.

    Well they are installing many lights along the trail but I am concerned about safety too, especially the homeless potentially spilling in from Finlay park. 

  5. Finlay Park/Three Rivers Greenway /Rails-to-Trails System

    in Columbia

    Posted · Edited by lucjanrc

    The Lincoln tunnel rails to trails project is one that I think hasn't been documented as well as it should be. Phase 2 of the project will be completed by the end of this summer after a few setbacks due to the city going $200,000 over budget. Phase 2 includes an extention of the trail from Finlay park to Elmwood Avenue. Here is a link to my flickr page that has some pictures of the progress. https://www.flickr.com/gp/70814931@N05/56Winu

  7. Bull Street Common

    in Columbia

    Posted · Edited by lucjanrc

    The riverfront is coming but it's going to take another 5-10 years. First a bridge has to be built across the railroad track for Greene Street to be extended towards the river. Greene Street will be a streetscaped pedestrian/bike/car road that will connect residents from downtown Columbia to the river. Things are progressing slowly because the land right along the river has to be cleaned because of tar pollution or something, I forgot. The first phase of Greene should be completed by August. The second phase along with the bridge will be started in 2017 and finished in 2019, and from there plans for the riverfront park should quickly emerge. For the riverfront park I would say 2020 for construction start at the earliest.

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  8. Bull Street Common

    in Columbia

    Posted · Edited by lucjanrc

    32 minutes ago, carolinagarnet said:

    Yeah not to pile on, but Charlotte is still one of the fastest growing metros in the country if not the fastest. It stands to lose momentum, but all of the announcements thus far have been relatively low impact (concerts, mid size new offices). The banks continue to grow organically, Metlife is taking another full floor in their office in Ballantyne, and companies are still moving to the region. Columbia may get a little spillover, but the area that stands to really benefit is Rock Hill/Fort Mill. Moving there allows companies to access Charlotte talent, get huge tax incentives from the state, and avoid the bad PR.

    Getting back to Bull Street, I agree that companies will go with the shovel ready project first. At this point it will probably consist of relocations within the area, for instance a company moving its office from St. Andrews to Bull Street. The best candidates seem to be FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate) and law firms. I'm a little surprised that more companies have not announced moves, but there is not as much pent up demand here. USC will end up driving most of the growth in Innovista over time. The university is getting very creative with corporate partnerships (see: IBM/Fluor, 650 Lincoln). This is a lot slower of a process. I haven't thought about it much, but there may be some opportunities for them to outsource key functions like they did with IT. This kind of organic growth will take years to materialize since the state's economic development efforts focus on manufacturing in rural areas of the Lowcountry and the Upstate. In many ways Columbia is on its own.

    I just hope they aren't looking for as many relocations as they are new business because relocations can hurt other areas such as Main Street that have taken years to revitalize. Didn't the law firm that moved into the First Base building relocate from Main Street? Also, where are people parking for the baseball games and when is the first parking garage going to be built?

  9. Bull Street Common

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    There's still a lot of work to be done with connecting the Vista to the CBD across Assembly Street. The sudden expansion of USC/Innovista across Assembly triggered the streetscaping of Assembly between Pendleton & Blossom and now Greene street towards the river, making both streets much more pedestrian friendly. The same needs to happen now on Assembly between Senate & Washington and the key will be as growingup15 noted, new construction on parking lots and parking garages between those streets.

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  10. Bull Street Common

    in Columbia

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    I think the Bull Street Common stands a bigger chance of getting business than Innovista in the short term, office buildings are already going up in the Commons (the first and second base buildings). Innovista is trending more towards student housing right now.

  11. Bull Street Common

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    Charlotte is pushing the "Charlotte's got a lot" advertisement more than ever right now. We should release our own ad saying "Columbia happily welcomes all of Charlotte's jobs and businesses"

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  13. Bull Street Common

    in Columbia

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    13 hours ago, carolinagarnet said:

    You mean city-data? Or is there another?

    yeah city-data

    2 hours ago, mpretori said:

    With Charlotte's economy crumbling, Columbia should capture all the opportunities it can get. I mean, this could very well be a future southpark, it looks like it from the renderings. 

    I thought Charlotte was doing better than Atlanta in some aspects?

  14. Bull Street Common

    in Columbia

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    I don't know how many of y'all check the other forum but if you don't already know there were some renderings released not too long ago depicting a Nike store, Starbucks, a brewery, an H&M, a Cobb movie theater, and a Firebirds Wood Fired Grill among other blurred out signage. This doesn't confirm anything but it does provide us with some insight into what kind of retail the developer is looking for.

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