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930 Morrison won't be a problem nor create anymore traffic than there already is. The CofC kids who live there will drive to and from Mt P, yes, but so would they even if they lived in the middle of campus or near the Crosstown.
I think traffic through downtown and I-26 should be the biggest concern, not necessarily downtown to Mt P.
There is no room unless you want them to start buying up downtown and tearing things down. If residents protested a grocery store, I don't see how that's going to happen. I'm pretty sure CofC keeps a cap on student population. They aren't Clemson or Carolina, or even Coastal. There is no room to go anywhere, except up, but there are no available pieces of land to go up with.
That's one reason 9030 Morrison is so far away, yet will have a student shuttle. You'll start seeing more students residences probably, but not by campus. Campus Center and 9030 Morrison are not controlled by the school btw, they just serve students.
CofC is doing fine, but don't expect any expansions anytime soon, unless its new school buildings in Mount Pleasant, but that won't work because kids go to CofC to be downtown, not in a suburb. Not sure if we have the money anyway.
BTW, why has this boxy design become the "poster child" for new apartment buildings on Meeting St?
I think the BAR is so picky that the architects are afraid to express them shelves. There is a great looking hotel planned on Meeting St. right at the entrance to the bridge, but the BAR shot it down and gave them 3 hotels up north in DC and New York to use as a guide. I looked them up and they were all 5 or 6 story brick boxes. Awful and plain looking. And to think Charleston prides it's self on it's past architecture. Check out this link and you'll see some nice stuff.
I think the BAR is so picky that the architects are afraid to express them shelves. There is a great looking hotel planned on Meeting St. right at the entrance to the bridge, but the BAR shot it down and gave them 3 hotels up north in DC and New York to use as a guide. I looked them up and they were all 5 or 6 story brick boxes. Awful and plain looking. And to think Charleston prides it's self on it's past architecture. Check out this link and you'll see some nice stuff.
i think theae bar people need to be fired. They are passing up on some really nice buildings. They cant model what dc and nyc does. nyc also builds building over the height limit. Dc biggest is 200+ . They need to be replaced and bring people here that knows what tthey doing
Not to mention they have old and new buildings. And you cant say charleston is different because if they were why are we looking at other cities for ideals how to build buildings
Now I'm not complaining, because I think it's good that the city is filling all these empty lots and revitalzing downtown.
But where are all these people coming from with the construction of all these new mid raise apartments? What about jobs? Traffic etc.?
New mid raise apartments:
1. Spring and Lockwood
2. Behind the police station (Horizon)
3. Huger and Meeting
4. Meeting and Jackson
5. Columbus and Meeting
6. Cannon and President
They all look like about 150 to 250 units each. That's a lot of people.
Then we have all of these new hotels. This place is 'jumpin'.
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