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It doesn't look nearly sturdy enough to support a locomotive. Maybe one of those little kiddie-type trains. (Hey now, there's a mass transit solution that people would want to ride!) A slick looking stainless steel suspension bridge would look cool. Or how 'bout a miniature version of the Golden Gate Bridge? Could call it the Reedy Gate Bridge. Or the Golden Reedy Bridge, or...

Sorry, but that is an ugly bridge. Cheap steel. A beautiful stone bridge would look much better, and last for a thousand years.

I was told he was denied membership to the Carolina Yacht Club.

You really should do a little research before spouting off things like this. Sounds like talk one would hear over the crackerbarrel at the Lake Norman General Store. There will be no water shortage in Las Vegas for the forseeable future. Las Vegas is a city that is still defining itself. There is a tremendous effort underway to diversify the state and city economy. One personal example: I recently met the 20-something executives of a new technology company that relocated from Orange County to Las Vegas. They love it here. Younger people seem to like the entertainment, and they find that Nevada is a very easy place to operate a business, with no corporate or state income taxes, and generally helpful bureaucracies. Most Americans have no clue about what is happening in Las Vegas, they seem to resent it, or dismiss it's legitimacy as a city, for some reason. The stupid "whatever happens here stays here" advertising campaign hasn't helped any.

The Bruce& Lee Foundation are to be applauded, they really put their money where their mouths (& hearts?) are. But it's a waste of money. The new library is an ugly monstrosity, for that kind of money they could have hired a great architect and had something really special. A performing arts center? Why? FMU already has one, and Florence has a new auditorium or something similar. Nothing is going to save Florence, destined for a slow, abysmal decline into the third world.. A better investment would be to fund emerging technologies at FMU and Tech. Perhaps a nanotech assembly lab at FMU, or advanced fabrication techniques at Tech....or just give the money to me.

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Who is 'we'? I can guess. And what's wrong with religious freaks and racism? It keeps things 'diverse'.

Someday future Americans will regret that we demolished all the mid-twentieth century modernist architecture.

If your "constituency" consists of various "groups" who basically despise each other, how can you not alienate some? To serve one, you must subjugate the other. The essential folly of "multiculturalism". There is only one group who profits from this Boasian beotch child, and I leave it to the reader to discern this for themselves.

Why should your point of view prevail? Why shouldn't the ultra-conservatives get you "out of here"?

The demographics of Florence have sealed it's fate. It's the 800 pound gorilla in the living room that no one is allowed to discuss, as in many other urban areas.

Don't like that one much either. Although that rendering is so crude it's hard to tell what it really looks like. A great architect is not much more expensive than a lousy one, I'm sure the really good ones would love to design a building in Greenville. Calatrava, Norman Foster, Robert Stern, Helmut Jahn, Cesar Pelli, etc.

Florence is finished, a dying town. And let it die. A dreary, awful place. It's few antebellum buildings were demolished to make way for the few dollars paid by "Urban Renewal" programs of the 1070's. Florence isn't worth the bother.

Nice looking buildings. Wish they would have saved some old trees.

That Pinnacle is just plain ugly. None of the charm of the Liberty Life bldg., which it seems to be trying to emulate somewhat. The red brick as shown doesn't work for me either. A copper roof a-la the Pierre or Sherry Netherland Hotel in NYC would improve it and help unify the hodge-podge elements of the upper floors. But I give them credit for trying. Way better than some of the monstrosities in Charlotte and Atlanta. It would be great if someone built a Frank Lloyd Wright midrise on Main St. He designed several that were never built. Greenville seems to be searching for it's own architectural vernacular, Wright-style would be just right, IMHO! There is that authentic FLW house off N. Main St. as a precedent after all...

Many of these on Geary St. in San Francisco--I always wondered why they weren't more prevelant in other cites--must be expensive.