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The vista is really starting to come along. I got a chance to drive through the vista while going to Mellow Mushroom's today for lunch. And I was saying to myself in the next 5 years this section of Columbia is going to look really different. At the bottom of the vista near Public's they are building none stop. I think now the city should start adding more national recognized shops.
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Here's an article in The State newspaper Here talking about how Columbia is moving to aggressively annex 20 unincorporated areas within the city limits through water service. Deleted. Please don't cut and paste newspaper articles on this site. It is in the rules
I read the article this morning. I think it's a great ideal!!! If you get the services provided by the city either you can get annex in with the city of Columbia or seek services else where. It's an awful lot of areas that get water,sanitation and police services but is not counted in the city population. I'm expecting to see the City of Columbia stretching it's boundaries soon
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Year after year, though, figures show the Columbia MSA gains more people than any other MSA in the state. So, while the Columbia MSA doesn't take up as much territory as the coast, and therefore doesn't gain as many people as the coast, it holds its own as far as South Carolina places pulling in people. Based on Columbia's growth percentage-wise as of last year, several of us in a earlier post and a different forum on here extrapolated that the Columbia MSA would gain over 12,000 this year, so figure about 12,000 of the 77,601 new residents are here. Lots are also in the Upstate, in Aiken and, of course, the coast from Myrtle Beach to Hilton Head.
Also, Myrtle Beach's housing market has tanked for now, so maybe they won't build any more houses until the ones they have are filled.
A while back we all thought by the next census Charleston would've caught up with Columbia. But for the last two years Columbia had more people moving here than any other part of the state... Do anyone still think Charleston will over throw the capital????
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Great News!!!! Richland County Council will vote tonight on property tax breaks for a potential 200-job, $600 million Google data center near Blythewood, but the Silicon Valley company won
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I have two stories...
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2. The lady sitting down from me didn't like a call made on the field (hard to believe if you watched the game) and she asked aloud, "where did they get these refs from (sic), SC?" I leaned over and asked her, "you do know that Charlotte is in NC don't you?" She responded that NC and SC were all the same to her...Carolina.
It's funny outside of NC and SC everyone else think of the Carolinas as one. I'm from Landover, MD now residing in Columbia,SC. And to be honest I've always thought of both Carolinas as one. But Charlotte is a new kid on the block and haven't had all the exposure other southern cities have experience such as Atl, Miami, NO, Memphis but is on it's way to leaving it's mark. I think when Charlotte's Uptown develops more into something unique more people will catch on. The city itself are taking the right steps into becoming something great but it takes time. It just isn't going to happen over night. But the way the entire south is growing right now I expect most of the Carolina cities such as Charlotte,Raliegh and Columbia to pass older cities such as Richmond and Baltimore. But for right now when people think of Charlotte they think of Bank of America and Wachovia.
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Expansion Management Magazine has named Columbia the number 1 real estate market for relocating and expanding businesses.
http://www.expansionmanagement.com/SMO/DOC...020%20RE(1).PDF
More great news!!!! It's good to see Columbia move up... We use to be last in everything but now it seems we're making the top !10 in everything. It's a plus that SC's big 3 was in the top ten.
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TV talk tycoon Oprah Winfrey will be making a stop in the Capital City soon. Barack Obama's campaign has announced that Winfrey will join the senator at a campaign event on December 9. This should be real big!!!
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I checked out the sculpture today on my lunch break and it looks really awesome. Water comes out from different parts and the sound of it coming down the sculpture is so calming. What a great addition to Main St. Unfortunately I didn't have my camera.
I got a chance to check it out this week also. It's really is a nice addition to downtown. I've never seen one of it's kind.
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The Southeastern Real Estate Business website has a city highlight of Columbia in this month's edition, with coverage of the industrial, retail, multifamily, and office markets. Specifically it says: "An additional announcement on a new Main Street building is also in the works as the CBD garners much of the focus of growth in the Columbia office market." I read another source that said something about office space in the works for downtown (aside from what we already know), so this appears to be confirmation.
I wonder what will it be????I hope's it's a new high rise
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In today's State Paper the City of Columbia is planning it's shelter near the CanalSide Development. WoW..that's a pretty bad move to me!!!!Especially if their trying to aim at a certain class of people. I don't know any one who wants to walk our their door and see homeless people. Not saying anything is wrong with that, but I definetly wouldn't prefer such. What do anyone else think????
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Taylor St (or is that Hampton?) is in dire need of some bike lanes. Look at how wide that sucker is.
That's one thing I love about Columbia the streets are so wide.. I don't know of any city with streets like ours.
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It's that time of the year!!!! On Oct,8 at 7:00pm the Colonial Center will be hosting The New York Knicks vs. Philadelphia 76'ers. NBA exhibition game. This is a must see game!!! Tickets are now on sale!!!
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I found the website for the movie and you guys can check it out yourself.....There's more than plenty of different shots of downtown Columbia.... I can't believe they pulled it off....Columbia going for Boston... Anyway here's the site Death Setence The Movie Offical Site
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Has anyone seen the commercial for Kevin Bacon's new movie Death Sentence....If you haven't please check it out....You can see different shots from around Columbia
. I also saw a USC sign in the commerical where he's jumping off a parking garage downtown.... -
Shops, restaurants and offices are planned for one of the most prime pieces of real estate along the Midlands
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My only problem!!!!!! Me being from Columbia I don't like how over the years USC will have something and will not allow public access or give the chance so something or somebody else to use their facilites. For example Their previous baseball stadium . They we're too selfish to allow Columbia to keep our Minor League baseball team. Also Hockey....the inferno had to build their own facility. It should be some kind of agreement between USC and the City of Columbia for sports and other recreational usage of these places. Instead of it's ours get your own!!!!! USC has cost the City of Columbia to lose out on grand opportunities. Also USC wouldn't allow the panthers to practice or play it's 1st season in their stadium. The list is endless. If this scenario is going to be played out at the end. Columbia should re-think even trying to partner with USC to take us to the next level.
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Wow.....Since they built that super walmart it looks as if that area has opened up for development. I think it's a great ideal for dutch square and can improve the area.
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^That's a pretty decent rank for Columbia.
For future reference, you can post real estate related news in this thread.
Yeah that is pretty decent for Columbia..I'm starting to notice a trend with Columbia ranking higher on the polls nowadays. Just this year alone I've seen Columbia do pretty well for it's self. But back to the thread....Another positive annoucement for Newberry...Newberry County rolled up another new employer Thursday, luring Schweitzer-Mauduit International to an existing industrial park just off Interstate 26. Schweitzer, an Alpharetta, Ga.-based maker of cigarette paper, plans to spend $4 million renovating a vacant, 54,000-square-foot specialty printing plant. Earlier this week British aerospace parts supplier Nasmyth Group Limited announced Tuesday its plans to hire up to 70 workers at a new facility. Now this!!! Two in one week...
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I just been playing with this picture..lol...Since no one else posted anything new. This could be Columbia posted in a museum in the future showing how it was in the 00s. lol
Nice picture.... I never noticed how many power lines were actually on Main St.
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An international company today will announce plans to locate its North American headquarters in Newberry.
The company was not named but it is in the aerospace industry. The company plans to invest millions in a new manufacturing facility and will bring new jobs to the county. So this is great news for the midlands area
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I stopped by the Canalside sales office on Gervais St today to pickup some brochures and they said the first phase would be available for occupancy in summer 2008. I asked if that wasn't overly ambitious a schedule and they insisted the first phase (about half the development area) would definitely be ready by then.
I drove by there also... the site seems to be pretty busy. I'm happy to see this devolpment come to life. I hope the bull street project can move to a similar pace
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"The State" newspaper reported yesterday that USC's hydrogen fuel cell initiatives have highly impressed some major players in this area of new energy research. Americans have said in recent polls that finding new sources of energy is one of the important things this country needs to accomplish, both because of global warming and because of their pocketbooks.
Cities with well educated workforces and research centers that the nation is depending on keep our economy strong for future generations, stand to boom. By 2009 when the National Hydrogen Fuel Cell Convention takes place at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center, "hydrogen fuel cell" will be becoming a household phrase as "the internet" once was, and Columbia will be at the forefront.
We'll be the New South Capital of New Energy Research.
By the way, the article in "The State" said Samsung is beginning "investigations" into having a presence here.
That's great news to hear. Columbia is definetly a good city to invest in. And companies like Samsung would give Columbia the boost it needs. The Hydrogen Fuel Cell Convention is a big step for us. Can't wait to hear more develop from the fuell cell research.
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CMRTA Extends Bus Service to Village at Sandhills, the Free-Times reports. Service will be extended along Two Notch Rd to the VAS and new service will be added along Alpine and Faraway Rds starting June 1. No additional costs will be incurred due to the shifting of schedules of existing routes.
I think this is a pretty good ideal. Especially considering the time and distance from the city to the Village of Sandhill. The city bus service is starting to expand it's reach
. I know it was stalled for a minute and the economy didn't make things any better. Just glad to see the ball starting to move again
. I also saw a USC sign in the commerical where he's jumping off a parking garage downtown....
Economic Development in South Carolina
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This is Not good!!!! On Yahoo's front page South Carolina, Rhode Island and Michigan are the worst states to look for a job!!!