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New Downtown in Columbia: The Bull St Development
Posted on 2/22/15 at 12:19 pm
Posted on 2/22/15 at 12:19 pm
https://www.thestate.com/2015/02/21/4002813_bull-street-the-center-of-a-new.html?rh=1
I toured the old grounds last year, just to get a better picture of where they were going to put the development and how it would fit in b/w Bull and Harden. There is so much used land and just run down buildings that are condemned. I'm really glad the investors and city planners are moving forward with this project. It's a great piece of real estate.
Exclusive Sneak Peek – Spirit Communications Park
I toured the old grounds last year, just to get a better picture of where they were going to put the development and how it would fit in b/w Bull and Harden. There is so much used land and just run down buildings that are condemned. I'm really glad the investors and city planners are moving forward with this project. It's a great piece of real estate.
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Jan. 6, 2015: Ground broken for $37 million baseball stadium, public participation upped to $30 million, team ups contribution by $1 million to $7 million
Read more here: https://www.thestate.com/2015/02/21/4002887/bull-street-timeline.html#storylink=cpy
Exclusive Sneak Peek – Spirit Communications Park
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For nearly 200 years, the state asylum on Bull Street was the centerpiece of care for the mentally ill in South Carolina. Now, in what is considered the biggest and most important land deal in modern Columbia history, the 165-acre campus is to be transformed into what boosters claim will be an economic behemoth.
It is a billed as a job creator of the first degree, equivalent to Boeing or BMW, with thousands of homes, stores and offices adding a new heart to the city center, alive with people living, working and playing.
Already, a new $37 million baseball stadium is rising from the site’s center. And developers are promising dozens of new stores and hundreds of homes.
But, if successful, Columbia Common, as it is called, also will be the centerpiece of a new downtown – affecting the diverse neighborhoods around it, transforming them as well. Will it be everything everyone hopes?
Columbia, meet your new neighbor
Read more here: https://www.thestate.com/2015/02/21/4002813_bull-street-the-center-of-a-new.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy
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Posted on 2/22/15 at 1:03 pm to CockInYourEar
Still think the baseball stadium is dumb
Posted on 2/22/15 at 1:12 pm to CockInYourEar
About to close on a house in Elmwood Park. . .so we really hope it's a huge success and helps with our property value.
Posted on 2/22/15 at 2:50 pm to crispyUGA
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About to close on a house in Elmwood Park. . .so we really hope it's a huge success and helps with our property value.
Right on, my girlfriend at the time rented a house in college on Confederate. The people on her street hated seeing college kids move in, an they made life pretty unpleasant. It wasn't until I saw that Seth Rogen movie Neighbors that I better understood their perspective.
However, they were still dicks about it. They called the cops non-stop for anything.
Posted on 2/22/15 at 7:29 pm to CockInYourEar
Yeah, We live 4 blocks from 5 Pts right now, we're no strangers to college kids. I used to party too hard in my day, I just want a reasonable amount of peace and quiet on weeknights. The only problem I've ever had in the past 6 years in our current house was that 2 drunk kids walked up on our porch and started having a very loud conversation. I opened the door and told them they needed to keep moving and the girl tried to make her way in the door and wanted to lay on the sofa, then the dude was like "I think I left my phone in your house" and tried to force his way in the door and got pretty belligerent. That was when I shoved him and told them I was calling the cops and if he tried to get in my house again he's end up on the wrong end of a shotgun. Only time I ever had to call the cops on a college kid. . .panhandlers are another story.
Posted on 2/22/15 at 9:35 pm to crispyUGA
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Yeah, We live 4 blocks from 5 Pts right now,
I miss being walking distance to 5 points...but that's when I was 20-21...I can imagine now you see some characters.
I think downtown columbia is going to go through a significant gentrification. It already happened in the Vista, now it's happening at Bull St. They've also closed a lot of the PJ's over by Benedict and they got rid of a bunch of the old ones off Rosewood.
This post was edited on 2/22/15 at 9:39 pm
Posted on 2/22/15 at 11:23 pm to CockInYourEar
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I think downtown columbia is going to go through a significant gentrification
What year did you last go to 5 points?
Posted on 2/23/15 at 6:38 am to Cockopotamus
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What year did you last go to 5 points?
I went to Harpers during the day in '14, but the last time I went to a bar down there was probably '09.
That area will change dramatically too once the new student housing is built. I think you'll see more students going to the Vista, b/c they can walk to it.
This post was edited on 2/23/15 at 6:39 am
Posted on 2/24/15 at 2:16 pm to CockInYourEar
A lot of USC students live in that Elmwood Park area now. I lived in the neighborhood right across from this new Bull Street development my senior year 2012-2013.
It's pretty cheap to live over there, and it's kind of off the beaten path (cops rarely come through that area), hence why so many students live north of Elmwood now. We threw PLENTY of "Project X" style ragers. No fires though. That other poster is probably talking about me.
That's kind of the hot area to be right now for students. It used to be that neighborhood behind 5points and the Rosewood area near campus.. but now its definitely North Elmwood.
I'm just happy to see this kind of development in Columbia. Downtown is booming right now. A lot of people complain about the brain drain at USC.. there's so much intellectual capital that comes through Columbia because of USC and they leave after college because there used to be nothing to do. But now it's changing. Columbia is getting better and it's kind of a secret to those on the outside. Eventually those students will start sticking around. Steve Benjamin isn't perfect, but he knows how important USC students and alumni are to Columbia's success. He's an alum himself.
I actually plan on moving back in a few years. I kind of miss it.
It's pretty cheap to live over there, and it's kind of off the beaten path (cops rarely come through that area), hence why so many students live north of Elmwood now. We threw PLENTY of "Project X" style ragers. No fires though. That other poster is probably talking about me.
That's kind of the hot area to be right now for students. It used to be that neighborhood behind 5points and the Rosewood area near campus.. but now its definitely North Elmwood.
I'm just happy to see this kind of development in Columbia. Downtown is booming right now. A lot of people complain about the brain drain at USC.. there's so much intellectual capital that comes through Columbia because of USC and they leave after college because there used to be nothing to do. But now it's changing. Columbia is getting better and it's kind of a secret to those on the outside. Eventually those students will start sticking around. Steve Benjamin isn't perfect, but he knows how important USC students and alumni are to Columbia's success. He's an alum himself.
I actually plan on moving back in a few years. I kind of miss it.
This post was edited on 2/24/15 at 2:25 pm
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