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Spartanburg made this list again:
https://realestate.usnews.com/places/south-carolina/spartanburg
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The Peach Country Passage of the Palmetto Trail passes through Inman thus connecting to the to the Saluda Grade Trail. And the Dan connects to the Palmetto Trail. Since the Peach Country Passage uses roadways to connect Inman to Landrum this new trail may well provide an off-road alternative for the Palmetto Trail.
This is an exciting development!
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The owners of the Mast Stores are personally known to me. They are not far off franchisers. They are neighbors from small town North Carolina who have a deep sensitivity to carefully curated products and fairness for employees. I can't imagine that "bamboozling" is in their business strategy. The Coopers are genuinely good people. I would hope that the local outfitter and Mast could coexist peacefully, just as Belk's and Aug Smith did for years.
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Please give a reference for PROJECT CORE so that I may read more about it. Thanks.
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Landrum has a brew pub on the way.
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The Mast Store is owned by a family which is generous, moral and community-minded. The Valle Crucis store is a National Historic Landmark. They have expanded but it just might be that their risk was to come to towns in the early stages of revival and contribute to the town's renewal. Their original tagline was they offered everything from "caskets to clothespins." (True. They had a pine box early on.) My thought, by asking the original question in this thread, was to wonder about the expansion of a diversity products for purchase, especially unique and well-made (non-big box) clothing and iron ware and candy and crafts and toys. This incarnation of a general store offers such rich diversity.
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Do I remember some discussion of trying to land a Mast Store downtown years ago? Did that just fizzle out? Isn't there an entity/source/agency which offers incentives? And if not the Mast Store, a good equivalent...
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I am newly returned to the area. Just wondering why Spartanburg doesn't have any "luxury brand" auto dealerships? I realize that Greenville has such dealerships, but they are not really convenient for service after the sale.
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IMO - This is an unfortunately composed addition to the classsic (but not very imaginative red brick and white column church) style of this Baptist Church.
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Took a Google Map stroll from the West Main at Forest Street location roads-scholar just posted toward town. Isn't there a buried creek near Wakefield Buick? Wouldn't it be great to daylight it and have some kind of water feature in that vicinity?
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https://gsabusiness.com/news/architecture/80715/
Did everyone see this? Award for the Montgomery Building restoration.
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Spartanburg ranked number 28 on this list of Best Performing Large Cities from the Milken Institute. This was up 8 places. See it here: https://assets1c.milkeninstitute.org/assets/Publication/ResearchReport/PDF/BPC-US-2018-WEB.pdf
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23 hours ago, Sparkleman said:
My wish list is similar to some of the others and in no particular order.
Do something with the Coke building that will bring people to it and expand the lines of downtown.
As I have said before, bring a hip, trendy retailer to downtown. I have mentioned Belks but Banana Republic would work fine as well.
Unlock the water and bring it downtown somehow some way.
Put a major chain restaurant downtown but kind of out of the way. Again something guaranteed to bring folks and expand the lines downtown. Dreaming Cheesecake Factory or a Bone Fish grill.
A big white collar employer to move in and either renovate SHJ headquarters or put up a new building.
Lastly put a small parking deck somewhere below Cribbs. This is a huge need and there just isn't enough parking down there. Ideally put it on that vacant lot by Cohens closeouts. That by itself could help lure folks down there.
Affirm "unlock the water and bring it downtown..."
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On 12/30/2018 at 9:35 PM, roads-scholar said:
Love ‘em all!
On 12/30/2018 at 8:19 PM, spartanburgh said:I'm going to wish for some different things this year. Some are a little far fetched, but I think we are ready for the next step.
-Minor league baseball announced in new downtown stadium and the Socon moves its baseball tournament there.
-Wakefield Buick announces a move in conjunction with a redevelopment plan to open the creek and create an
attractive park in its place. This could possibly be combined with a small, but high quality Zoo between VCOM and
the park. This could replace Hollywild.
-A condo building in the planning phase.
-The bus station moves to the rail station site and the existing station becomes home to a white collar employer.
-A high quality water park opens downtown that converts to winter activities when cold. (ice rink etc.)
-A high rise development in the 14-16 story range.
-A permanent feature in Morgan Square such as a carousel in the area that is now Dunbar Street. Dunbar would be
closed and additional green space added, including a feature similar to this.
-A large annexation that boosts the population significantly.
- A pedestrian pathway that connects Westgate to Downtown to the Eastside, including space to add electric
rail in the future.
Yep, some are crazy, but all are possible.
Interesting that you mentioned the Wakefield Buick space. Running through my mind is that the creek could form a town (mini-) lake which might have an impressive water feature (with changeable lights) surrounded by parklike features. Like all your other wishes.
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On 7/5/2009 at 11:30 AM, dobboard said:
Wow, quite a bit of good news for Main Street. I love the addition of the Church and landing a Mast store appears to be a major coup.
Interesting, because I visited the Mast store in Greenville just last weekend. There were a ton of people shopping there.
Fingers crossed that both projects come to fruition.
Is there any news/update on getting a Mast Store or equivalent downtown?
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Spartanburg dropped to the Third Tier in the 2024 Milkin Institute 's Best Performing Cities report. The city did still have positive indicators.
https://milkeninstitute.org/best-performing-cities