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8 hours ago, distortedlogic said:
Wow, that is totally and utterly ridiculous.
And actually, the total now shows $849, NOT including taxes and fees, which comes up to $934. Parking is another $30 and you even have to pay $11 for wifi in room. Check in is 4pm and check out is 11am so you get 19 hours. If you sleep 8 of those you are paying almost $985 for 11 hours and thats if you bring your own food and drink. You can go walk around and sit in the lobby for free. Anyone paying that amount of money for a night obviously has way more cents than sense.
To be fair that is basically for a last minute booking. I happened to check on Saturday and you could get a room a month out for high 400s (on a weekend), which is still very expensive. But not completely braindead if you have the spare income.
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22 hours ago, ingvegas said:
https://www.wyff4.com/article/renovations-greenville-limit-public-access-sc/60445576
I get it, but I hate this. This place is part of what makes Greenville unique and fun for all. Now it will be for private use only.
I talked with the architects at one of the open houses a month ago. They said that the building would be locked up at night. But otherwise would still be open to the public.
It is mostly to make easier on hosting events there. So they can lock it up and make sure the stuff they have set up doesn't walk off before or after.
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1 hour ago, GvilleSC said:
Can someone remind me what is now under construction at the corner of Birnie and Gower Streets?
Town homes I believe.
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The Legacy connector is great, need more trail offshoots like this.
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Didn't realize that the Verdae connector would so extensive .
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18 hours ago, gman430 said:
Crème Shack unfortunately will not be reopening and has permanently closed.
This hurts. I loved that place.
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41 minutes ago, gman430 said:
Crème Shack to reopen August 30th.
What was the reason they closed?
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Took a ride on the green line extension. It's great. Well worth the wait.
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Don't know if this has been posted yet, but this section of the trail in falls parks back open. The trail connection to County Square looks nice.
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27 minutes ago, NewlyUpstate said:
Looks like the proposal is an Urban market concept with Spinx branding. Very interesting.
https://www.greenvillesc.gov/DocumentCenter/View/23335/23-318-PUBLIC-POSTING-659-S-Main-Street
I wish they were at least adding a couple floors to make it mixed use as well as eliminating the parking out front. That space is so wasted. The design of the market itself looks nice.
Love it, I've been saying for a while we need more small markets like these within walking distance of housing.
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11 hours ago, apaladin said:
Doesn’t look like a $130 million dollar building to me.
Advanced Material science probably involves a lot of pricey machinery on the inside.
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2 hours ago, NewlyUpstate said:
From yesterday's council meeting - encouraging to see that the Ped bridges came in a decent bit under budget. Hopefully bodes well for funding for additional SRT expansions and improvements.
How is the thing that is going to take longer paving the path! 2 months! What has the county been doing? The city has built literal bridges faster.
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12 hours ago, gman430 said:
So it’s not for the mixed use development or the sewer project. It’s basically going to be a temporary 73 spot parking lot for the general public attending Greenville Drive games this season to use due to the loss of spots at County Square. The spots will only be available for this season due to the mixed use development at the same site being under construction by this time next year:
Makes sense I wondered what they were going to do about the temporary loss of parking for county square.
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8 minutes ago, gman430 said:
These two things are great to see:
The Greenville Housing Fund currently has multiple development projects throughout the city that have stalled due to uncertain financing as interest rates continue to rise. Brown said the new funding will allow those projects to move forward as well as support other initiatives:
https://www.postandcourier.com/greenville/news/greenville-fund-to-borrow-30m-to-speed-up-affordable-housing-efforts/article_2c137b72-cca3-11ed-adc9-7bcfa426db87.html
https://www.greenvillesc.gov/AgendaCenter/ViewFile/Item/10387?fileID=59042The same pot of tourism tax dollars used to fund iconic Greenville projects including Falls Park and Unity Park could be applied to affordable housing if a bill working its way through the state Legislature becomes law:
Good to see people not just throwing up their hands when the the inevitable roadblocks or delays happen.
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7 hours ago, gman430 said:
Alright. Let’s do this. New spray paint markings all over the place and soil driller on site doing its thing.
Do we know what this is for?
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20 hours ago, gman430 said:
Another great institution closing downtown. Sad. It will probably be replaced with an ice cream/coffee shop, women’s boutique, or some high end overpriced steak restaurant. We need a few more of all three downtown. Miss having affordable options. Now the area only caters to rich people and their spoiled kids.
Barley's has been going downhill for a bit unfortunately from what I can glean from one of my friends in the restaurant industry the owners were not fun to work with and there was constant drama.
I think Todaro's fills the niche of cheap decent pizza, but it's on the other side of downtown. Bertolo's is alright and only a little bit more expensive and it's a two minute walk from Barley's. I do agree, downtown needs to keep the plethora of different cost restaurants. -
11 hours ago, NewlyUpstate said:
Uhmm who the hell is going on a GSP-HVN flight
Strangely enough this is great for me, my sister lives in New Haven, Connecticut.
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4 minutes ago, PuppiesandKittens said:
This is more future Section 8 housing.
ALL of these quick-construction, "Charlotte, NC 2010 Panel-Covered Boxy Apartment Buildings" are going to age badly, and in a few decades, they'll be undesirable. That means that beautiful, nice downtown Greenville will have a large clump of undesirable housing in it.
The Eastland area in Charlotte, and University City in Charlotte, were the site of lots of similar construction in the 1970s through the 1990s and once those buildings started to age, only people who couldn't afford better would live there, leading to those areas becoming rough, undesirable areas.
The same thing could happen to downtown Greenville if we're not careful.
Any developer wanting to profit off of our beautiful downtown should be required to build a high-quality building that will hold up well. That will help keep downtown desirable. Developers who want to profit off of our beautiful downtown shouldn't be allowed to build #&*($, because building *#$()*# means short-term profits for the developer but long-term costs for the rest of us. (And I say this as a conservative/libertarian.)
Some will age gracefully and some won't, luckily most of this stuff isn't being built at the exact same time, and it is all in areas that will remain desirable regardless (Outside of another sea change in how desirable cities themselves are). Cheap housing doesn't immediately mean crime infested, there are other overlapping effects that need to line up to cause something like that.
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10 hours ago, gman430 said:
Paw Paws USA to return downtown and open in April in the old MHK architecture space on Main Street.
Their old space was in Next Manufacturing, I was always thought it was weird that a retailer was in a space like that (door requires a code).
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2 hours ago, greenvilleguy said:I agree. Looks like a mix between Italy and the Alamo. However, it will probably look much better with signage, landscaping, and lighting once its finished. I'm curious if they already have any retailers interested in phase 2.
Looking past any architectural critiques of the rest of the development, it's good to see in a development called 'Bridgeway' that the Bridge looks great! Love the clean white stone/concrete look.
Good to see the Greenville area giving so much love and attention to well designed pedestrian bridges, instead of treating them as after thoughts.
I imagine that it'll be a great advertisement for the development/whole area to see people walking and biking over the main arterial highway on your way in to Greenville proper.
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2 hours ago, gman430 said:
Looks like Blaze Pizza has reopened.
Yep, I ate there yesterday.
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10 hours ago, apaladin said:
Love the McClaren and its size. Great addition,not another 4 story low rise,
Sizing good, look not so good.
But yeah, I'd rather have its density than not. I think in a decade or so it'll be surrounded by other large buildings and it won't stick out so much.-
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6 hours ago, vicupstate said:
This is a graph from Councilman Russell Stall's paper, which is upthread.
I didn't realize that Columbia and Charleston had 3.8-4.5 times the land area of Greenville but only less than 2 times the population.
The Gateway Site
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Wouldn't that make that taller than the windstream/landmark building? On the skyline context slide they look about even, but I'm not sure of the ground height difference between the two sites.