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What's wrong with you? From the airport site: "During the Terminal Roadway Improvement Project (TRIP), it is necessary to remove some trees along the roadways at GSP. The trees are being removed to make way for roadway improvements ro reduce congestion near the terminal. Once this project is complete, we will replace these trees with new trees that will allow GSP to continue to offer our airport’s unique park-like environment for many years to come. "

For the love of God, yes. This is just about the last place you can go that hasn't been infected with politics, which is why it's so damned annoying whenever someone brings "Joe" into it. If you think the president has that kind of omnipotence and those kinds of powers to direct every action of other autonomous nations, not to mention whether or not projects are built in Greenville, then he's obviously a god of some kind and you ought to go pray to him -- but quietly, in a closed room in your home, in private as the Bible directs, and keep it off of here.

Why bother getting excited? If tenants weren't moving into the project in question yesterday, it's only a matter of time before certain forum members start complaining again that the president, probably while cackling and rubbing his hands together in a sinister fashion, pressed that button on his desk again that specifically cancels projects in Greenville, South Carolina and nowhere else -- because things are getting built in other cities, obviously. Other cities don't have this problem, and other cities aren't overrated, and that's why certain forum members talk about leaving this city and going to one of those other cities. Meanwhile, when searching for the perfect other SimCity in which to live, where projects face no opposition and go up in a matter of seconds, have you considered Houston? They don't have zoning. They don't care what gets built or where, and they've got the 26-lane wide Katy Freeway to prove it.

Well, on the one hand it's still Big Boxy Betty McLaren's big sister Beatrice. On the other, I like the optical illusion of a tilt that those balconies create, and I love the idea of a sculpture garden -- although I'm going to reserve judgment until I see whether the sculptures themselves are actually meaningful in some way, or if they're of the pointless "Look, here's some art!" corporate modernist style.

What I hear you saying is that boxy architecture is great because not only can it look boring, but it also has the added benefit of looking cheap.

That's the biggest problem with Greenville's architecture as it is. You've got a choice of a brick box or a glass box, or a brick-and-glass box if the architect is especially daring, but by God you're getting a box.

Giving that architectural element to the right, the part that sticks up the tallest, a good pop of color, a mural, or some neon, would go a long way toward making this less boring. If that thing was bright red, blue, or green, multicolored, or if it had a mural of something like a flowering vine, or if there were colorful neon strips, it would really stand out with just that one part decorated.

That's okay, 'cause Bo knows.

ThisprojectisdeadthanksJoe!

To break away from the Grootspeak for a moment (ThisprojectisdeadthanksJoe! ThisprojectisdeadthanksJoe?) it's likely because of the incessant complaining. Nothing is ever going up in the quantity and at the speed you want, and it's tiresome to see nothing but complaints in here. This is still far and away the best site to discuss what's getting built in Greenville, and there is still a lot getting built in Greenville. But because it's not going up in the same quantities and at the same speed as in your SimCity, you'd never know it. To hear you talk you'd think this was Youngstown or Utica or some hellhole whose population peaked in the 50s.

ThisprojectisdeadthanksJoe?

ThisprojectisdeadthanksJoe. ThisprojectisdeadthanksJoe. ThisprojectisdeadthanksJoe?

ThisprojectisdeadthanksJoe? ThisprojectisdeadthanksJoe!

This project, by which I mean the entirety of Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport, is dead. Thanks, Joe! I think it's safe to say that it's the exposure to Greenville, the city where dreams go to die, and its airport that proved so toxic to Avelo that the very airline itself is in jeopardy. Let that be a lesson, airlines! Greenville is a toxin in your very blood!

This project is dead. Thanks, Joe!

This project is dead. Thanks, Joe!

It's true enough that after a while, they start to sound like Groot: "This project is dead!" "This project is dead?" "This project is dead." "This project is dead!" "This project is dead?' And so on.

This project is dead. ... Just trying to beat the rush.

How exciting! I'm going to go ahead and put on my complainin' shoes now so I'll be ready to jump up and pitch a beotch fit as soon as the news drops!

Does it hurt? Do you need to sit down? Can I bring you some water or something?

The only city where things get built as easily, quickly, and in the quantities you would prefer is SimCity.

"This project is dead. "

I stopped by Magnolia Park yesterday to use a Bed, Bath, and Beyond gift card before they go under. That whole shopping center is just dreary, and it wouldn't hurt anybody if they tore down half of it and redeveloped it with housing and mixed-use. Shopping centers are dinosaurs.

Tirana International Airport, also known as Mother Teresa International Airport in Tirana, Albania.

Can you even imagine the marketing possibilities of routes like this? "Avelo: 'Flying you everywhere no one wants to go!'"