CONSTRUCTION THREAD: TD Bank Regional Headquarters Campus

[gs3]

Hopefully one will actually be able to see it, unlike some other "highly visable" projects...

ahem, ICAR...

You can't see ICAR?

[GvilleSC]

It's not as visible as I always thought it would be. Hubbell is visible.

[gs3]

I think when the Graduate School is complete and uplit it will be highly visible. Hope so. Seems like it will be from looking at the current construction. And remember, there is that big spire and signage that will be installed on 85.....g-man posted in the ICAR thread.

[GvilleSC]

I think when the Graduate School is complete and uplit it will be highly visible. Hope so. Seems like it will be from looking at the current construction. And remember, there is that big spire and signage that will be installed on 85.....g-man posted in the ICAR thread.

that is true about the spire thing. thanks for the glimmer of hope.

[distortedlogic]

You can't see ICAR?

Oh, I can see it, but only because I am looking for it through the trees. Nothing sticks up above the trees, and there are no clearings to peek through. When the leaves are on the branches, it will be very difficult to spot at all. And with no signeage (yet) passersby are mostly oblivious.

[g-man430]

Phase 1 of a 4-phase master plan anticipates the creation of approximately 600 new jobs with an average salary of approximately $54,000/year, and an initial capital investment of $100 million. Construction will commence “soon” with completion of phase 1 by 2011. Phase 1 of the campus environment anticipates 375,000 square feet of office space, 1,500 parking spaces, 4 buildings, and a “town center.”

[distortedlogic]

That doesn't make it visable. Unless the future phases are to be built diferently than the current.

[g-man430]

^^^I didn't say it was going to be visible. Wait, what are we talking about? ICAR or South Financial? I'm lost once again.

[distortedlogic]

Sorry, I was still on the ICAR visibility comparison. Hopefully, SF will be very visible.

[g-man430]

^^^That's good. I'm pretty sure once the buildings in neighborhood 1 of ICAR get built they will begin to build the plaza area and cut down the remaining trees, then put the spire and sign up next to I-85. According to Erm1981, South Financial should be very visible from I-85. I'm kind of worried the trees between the frontage road and I-85 will hide the buildings, but hopefully they'll take down those trees or the buildings will be big and tall enough, so where you'll be able to still see the campus even if the trees are still there.

[GvilleSC]

Are South Financial's outrageous amounts of parking spaces going to be in a garage facility? Who am I kidding?

[g-man430]

Are South Financial's outrageous amounts of parking spaces going to be in a garage facility? Who am I kidding?

I think that's a yes. At least that's what I heard.

[erm1981]

Actually G-man im not too sure how visible south financial will be. I guess we will have to see how big some of the buildings are going to be and how far off 85 they are.

[g-man430]

^^^Bummer. I thought you would know seeing how you work for the company building it.

[goodbye]

The renderings printed in The Greenville News show that at least some of the buildings will be easily visible from I-85. There is some large pond feature at the front entrance.

[g-man430]

^^^Skyliner, can you post the only rendering that's been released to the public in this thread?

[gs3]

600 initial workers will have an impact on that area far beyond the view from the interstate.

[GvilleSC]

600 initial workers will have an impact on that area far beyond the view from the interstate.

That's so true.

You might not be hit with the buildings' presense on the interstate, but i'm sure you'll hit the traffic at both Laurens Rd and Woodruff Rd Exits .

[g-man430]

^^^600 workers is just in the first phase. Expect 2000+ workers when the project is fully complete.

[goodbye]

Not to stray from the main topic, but as the City continues to attract new jobs along this corridor (and everywhere in between), some form of effective rapid transit will become a desperate need. I cannot imagine The South Financial Center growing to its maximum potential in this location without such a system in place.

[g-man430]

^^^Yes, GTA is doing really well right now.

[maninthepark]

I stopped by the site last week, just to see if any thing was happening.

The old bathroom building and picnic shelter along with the backstops have

been torn down. [if you don't know, this site was Fiber Industries, company

softball fields]

They have not started grading, but have drilled a series of test wells [looked like

about thirty] around the site,probably to check for soil compaction and ground

water contamination.

Fiber Industries contaminated all the ground water in the area, law suit's by

residence of the neighborhood behind the plant were a factor in it closing

[goodbye]

The very recent addition of the fairly sizeable Spartanburg market to Carolina First, should continue to add fuel to The South Financial Group's growth. We could have the makings of a much larger financial company than we thought we had.

[g-man430]

Are they ever going to start building this thing or is it just going to be an empty site forever?

[cutiger]

I stopped by the site last week, just to see if any thing was happening.

The old bathroom building and picnic shelter along with the backstops have

been torn down. [if you don't know, this site was Fiber Industries, company

softball fields]

They have not started grading, but have drilled a series of test wells [looked like

about thirty] around the site,probably to check for soil compaction and ground

water contamination.

Fiber Industries contaminated all the ground water in the area, law suit's by

residence of the neighborhood behind the plant were a factor in it closing

The groundwater contamination problem has been in remediation for over a decade now. If you look back behind the enormous soil stockpile, you'll see the remediation system (building with large above ground tank) that the environmental consultants used to clean up the groundwater. I believe that they were injecting mollases into the groundwater to biologically clean up the problem. Word on the street is that they have gotten contaminant levels below what DHEC has required, and that the remediation system has been shut down. Good news for the developers...since environmental problems, such as ones on this site, have been known to stall or kill projects.