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The Atlanta Beltline may have it beat terms of size and money.
I think it’s supposed to be the largest downtown redevelopment east of the Mississippi. But who the hell knows, it’s probably just a marketing scheme anyhow.
I think it’s supposed to be the largest downtown redevelopment east of the Mississippi. But who the hell knows, it’s probably just a marketing scheme anyhow.
I think the statistic was the largest single development site, meaning a contiguous brownfield location, in a downtown area. The BeltLine is likely larger overall, but is a collection of sites strung together.
Not trying to be funny but the report said that this is the largest redevelopment on the East Coast?! Is that accurate or just developer hubris? If it is true great for Columbia
"It's currently the largest urban revitalization project in a downtown city east of the Mississippi at 181 acres." I guess the keyword would be Urban and in a downtown environment.
I don’t know where downtown Charleston will begin in the eyes of people driving in from Summerville when Magnolia is built out for 10,000 residents and retail on the upper peninsula adjacent to I-26, but it is 191 acres and will be very urban density-wise and connected by street grid and pedestrian paths to the upper King Street/Meeting Street corridor.
To clarify where the Iron Hill Brewery will be, based off the new parking diagram posted for the USC/Clem baseball game - it is behind the church and not on the same side as Starbucks. So that would explain why so much work is occurring in that area. Guessing it will open at some point this year.
I don’t know where downtown Charleston will begin in the eyes of people driving in from Summerville when Magnolia is built out for 10,000 residents and retail on the upper peninsula adjacent to I-26, but it is 191 acres and will be very urban density-wise and connected by street grid and pedestrian paths to the upper King Street/Meeting Street corridor.
I would never consider the neck to be downtown CHS. That’s like me saying, yeah, they toot down the fairgrounds and building towers and connecting the street grid. It would be urban sure. Downtown adjacent even. But it wouldn’t be downtown.
I would never consider the neck to be downtown CHS. That’s like me saying, yeah, they toot down the fairgrounds and building towers and connecting the street grid. It would be urban sure. Downtown adjacent even. But it wouldn’t be downtown.
Under that scenario, after living in Columbia for 31 years, I’m not sure I could call Columbia Common downtown if I couldn’t call a former fairgrounds with a connected street grid and dense development downtown. By the time you’re on I-26 on the peninsula’s neck, a connected street grid and continual rooftops will psychologically make the motorist feel they have left the suburbs and entered downtown Charleston in the big picture. Not King Street, just like Columbia Common isn’t Main Street.
Under that scenario, after living in Columbia for 31 years, I’m not sure I could call Columbia Common downtown if I couldn’t call a former fairgrounds with a connected street grid and dense development downtown. By the time you’re on I-26 on the peninsula’s neck, a connected street grid and continual rooftops will psychologically make the motorist feel they have left the suburbs and entered downtown Charleston in the big picture. Not King Street, just like Columbia Common isn’t Main Street.
Except a fourth of it is in the original downtown blocks… Draw a line connecting Elmwood down to Harden, whatever’s south is Downtown.
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