Greenville County Square redevelopment

[gman430]

32 minutes ago, Skyliner said:

An official Lego store in Greenville would be nice.  County Square would be a good option, if not somewhere on Main Street.

There’s one at Haywood Mall: 

https://www.lego.com/en-us/stores/store/haywood-mall?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=Yext&utm_medium=Yext&y_source=1_MTY2ODY5MTktNzE1LWxvY2F0aW9uLndlYnNpdGU%3D%3Futm_source%3DGoogle&y_source=1_MTY2ODY5MTktNzE1LWxvY2F0aW9uLndlYnNpdGU%3D

[apaladin]

On 12/26/2023 at 2:11 PM, gman430 said:

There’s one at Haywood Mall: 

https://www.lego.com/en-us/stores/store/haywood-mall?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=Yext&utm_medium=Yext&y_source=1_MTY2ODY5MTktNzE1LWxvY2F0aW9uLndlYnNpdGU%3D%3Futm_source%3DGoogle&y_source=1_MTY2ODY5MTktNzE1LWxvY2F0aW9uLndlYnNpdGU%3D

Yes its been at Haywood for at least 2 years, correct? 

[gman430]

According to Colliers, 228,000 square feet of new Class A office space will be breaking ground at County Square early this year with completion in 2025. 

[GvilleSC]

9 hours ago, gman430 said:

According to Colliers, 228,000 square feet of new Class A office space will be breaking ground at County Square early this year with completion in 2025. 

I was curious if this was the Lima One building. However, looking back at their announcement, they're only leasing 65,000 SF, and it's unclear if there will be other tenants in their building. The 8 story building on the original site plan was planned to be approximately 200,000 SF. So, perhaps it is the Williams Sonoma building shown below?

I'm not sure I've seen these renderings. GSA Business shared them in December with the recent retail announcements.

[gman430]

Good question and I am not really sure honestly. CBRE leasing package does show office space already leased in the eight story building. Renderings on the other hand show Lima going in the four story one. Both proposed office buildings have retail/restaurant space at the bottom floor already leased with Fleming’s, Jenya, and Williams Sonoma so they’re both going to get built either way as part of phase 1.

Edited January 4 by gman430

[gman430]

Sad seeing this project cannibalizing other proposed ones downtown.  Those poor trees they cut down also. 

[gman430]

There is some big equipment now on the high rise site next to the parking garage.   The construction trailer that was there blocking a potential high rise has been moved also. Hmmm…

EMS has moved and the entire parking lot is now closed off. Pavement getting grinded up.

Edited February 15 by gman430

[distortedlogic]

13 minutes ago, gman430 said:

There is some big equipment now on the high rise site next to the parking garage.   The construction trailer that was there blocking a potential high rise has been moved also. Hmmm…

EMS has moved and the entire parking lot is now closed off. Pavement getting grinded up.

Which "high rise" are we talking about; the 4 story one or the 6 story one?

[gman430]

4 minutes ago, distortedlogic said:

Which "high rise" are we talking about; the 4 story one or the 6 story one?

Edited February 15 by gman430

[distortedlogic]

2 minutes ago, gman430 said:

Ah, that one. Is that just a promotional rendering or is it what is actually planned? These taller ones are kinda like snow; you have to wait till it happens to believe it.

[gman430]

40 minutes ago, distortedlogic said:

Ah, that one. Is that just a promotional rendering or is it what is actually planned? These taller ones are kinda like snow; you have to wait till it happens to believe it.

I’m not sure honestly. Hopefully it’s what is actually planned. They’re probably just putting down grass seed honestly knowing our luck. lol. 

[GvilleSC]

56 minutes ago, distortedlogic said:

Ah, that one. Is that just a promotional rendering or is it what is actually planned? These taller ones are kinda like snow; you have to wait till it happens to believe it.

Always expect a dusting, and hope for a blizzard!

[gman430]

Further investigation with the drone makes me think it’s just clean up/landscape work for the site. Meh. It looks like a temporary road so the public can access the county office building and garage will be opening shortly in the middle of the site. I imagine the current access road from University Ridge will be closed off at the same time so infrastructure work can start on the new permanent road/Lima One office building through the site.  

Edited February 16 by gman430

[bikeoid]

Thanks - some great views on what's going on there!

[GvilleSC]

I drove along University Ridge the other day for the first time since large scale demolition had begun. Without the building and the trees, the views of downtown are sweeping and really nice from ground level. The prominence of a building that surprised me was 121 Rhett.  

Thanks for the drone shots, @gman430

[gman430]

New traffic pattern:

[apaladin]

Has work stopped or been delayed for some reason? Been by 3 times in the past 2 weeks and there is some equipment and a few pickups but no workers, no work being done.

[gman430]

8 minutes ago, apaladin said:

Has work stopped or been delayed for some reason? Been by 3 times in the past 2 weeks and there is some equipment and a few pickups but no workers, no work being done.

Oh good. I thought I was the only one.  They couldn’t even finish demolishing the old county office building before it stalled. Sad.

Edited March 12 by gman430

[timbach]

As far as I can see, there is some light earthwork being done in the area of the now-demolished section of the county office building and some dirt work going on across the street. Also, it seems like they're in the process of gutting what's left of the old county building because piles of debris are appearing outside the doors.

[bikeoid]

11 minutes ago, timbach said:

As far as I can see, there is some light earthwork being done in the area of the now-demolished section of the county office building and some dirt work going on across the street. Also, it seems like they're in the process of gutting what's left of the old county building because piles of debris are appearing outside the doors.

This is a likely explanation - a county employee posted that they were still working in the corner building as demolition began.    They had to  complete the move out and pre-demolition before the rest can be taken down.

[btoy]

Aren't they also about to change the traffic pattern out there?  haven't they been installing a new or temp road for that?

[timbach]

10 minutes ago, btoy said:

Aren't they also about to change the traffic pattern out there?  haven't they been installing a new or temp road for that?

They're using the new entrance road already as shown in this graphic:

 

On 2/22/2024 at 7:03 PM, gman430 said:

New traffic pattern:

 

[vistatiger]

Geez Greenville County. Really! Peoples social security numbers and copies of Drivers License. Never heard of shredders or secure shredding companies that will pick documents up to be destroyed?  Thanks WYFF for finding  and calling out such laziness and incompetence.

https://www.wyff4.com/article/hundreds-of-documents-dumped-behind-old-greenville-county-complex-south-carolina/60258866

 

 

[gman430]

 

• Trevato Development Group announced it is entering into a joint venture redevelopment project in Greenville, South Carolina with RocaPoint Partners, a privately held real estate investment and development firm based in Atlanta, Georgia. The overall joint venture represents more than $400 million in development.

  Phase one construction is designed to include 184 multi-family units, 30,000 square feet of retail space including Pottery Barn and approximately 100,000 square feet of office mixed-use building space. A 1,100 space parking deck will also be constructed, in addition to ancillary buildings and a dog park.

  The second phase of development will include 416 multi-family units and is targeted to include 195,000 square feet of retail space and 125,000 square feet of office space, in addition to a 1,200 space parking deck 

 

• Trevato will be the lead developer of two multi-family mixed-use buildings totaling 600 top-of-the-market units in seven-story buildings, with retail on the ground floor and multi-family on floors two through seven

 

• RocaPoint will be the lead developer of the two office buildings, two parking garages, the Whole Foods retail and parking garage, and ancillary single purpose buildings

 

• The master project provides 3.5 million  sf of entitlements for over 15 pad ready sites, including 1,800 multi-family units, 500,000 sf of office, 300,000 sf of retail, a 265,000 sf county building, a park and trail system

 

• The PPP funds up to $50 million of horizontal infrastructure, including demolition of existing functionally obsolete county buildings, construction of roads, utilities and pads for vertical development, and traffic improvements

 

• RocaPoint, received a 17-year purchase option for vertical development, on a pad-by-pad basis at a pre-established price per-floor area square footage, with no annual escalation

 

Edited March 22 by gman430

[apaladin]

Reading between the lines, Roca Point bit off more than they could chew and this explains why construction has stopped. With this new joint venture who knows when/if construction will start up,again. 

Edited March 23 by apaladin