City Center

Format
Brief

City
Greenville

State/Province
SC

Country
USA

Metro Area
Greenville

Project Type
District/Corridor/Community

Location Type
Central Business District

Land Uses
Ball Fields
Civic Uses
Hotel
Multifamily Rental Housing
Office
Open space
Performance Space
Retail
Water Uses/Amenities

Keywords
Business-friendly development
Central open space
Creative finance
Downtown revitalization
Market-rate housing
Pedestrian-friendly development
Public attractions
Public-private partnership

A brief is a short version of a case study.

Greenville, South Carolina, took an opportunity to dramatically enhance its downtown area by opening up and preserving its waterfalls, creating pedestrian-focused places in the heart of the central business district. Changes in the local economy and labor market resulted in downtown disinvestment in Greenville. Over the course of about 30 years, city and state governments worked with private businesses to create a new vision for downtown Greenville that would reestablish the city as an attractive place to be with a viable business center. Economic development and rising land values have allowed residents and workers to now use spaces that were once viewed as eyesores and unsafe.

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Principal Author(s)
Tom Murphy, Maureen McAvey, Bridget Lane

Source
Reaching for the Future: Creative Finance for Smaller Communities
http://uli.org/centers-initiatives/reaching-future-creative-finance-smaller-communities/