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Parts of the plan are starting to come together (Greene St. and the Blossom-to-Pendleton stretch of Assembly). The recession and initial failure of the penny transit tax delayed the start of these projects, but the City and University do seem to be following through on the Master Plan. If and when the Congaree River Parkway and the various "landings" on the river are completed, Columbia is going to be a tourist destination in its own right.
And when the tourists come back off the river they are going to have a huge checkerboard of a playground in the Vista, the central business district, Columbia Common, Five Points and Devine Street, plus whatever other areas have developed more by then.
Proposed/planned:
Kline Property (4-6 stories)
Main Flatts (5 stories)
apartment building surrounding McD's in the Vista (4 stories)
Aloft Hotel at Lincoln & Lady St. (5 stories)start time expected late next spring early summer
Student housing at Gervais and Harden
Approved/close to construction:
phase 2&3 of USC's development around Blossom (6-7 stories)
Student Housing tower on Assembly (12-15 stories)
Parking Garage on Blossom (5 stories)
Finish Assembly Street Improvements
Huger Street Improvements
Greene Street Bridge over RR tracks/reno of Greene Street
William Street Continuation
Columbia Common (Nothing taller then steeple on Babcock building)
Coliseum Reno
Nursing Care Center, 2200 Harden St
Under Construction/Topped Out/Almost complete:
Agfisrt Reno
City Market redevelopment
Clarion Reno/constuction (6 stories)
620 Blossom(student housing) (4-5 stories)
710/724 Pulaski(student housing) (4-5 stories)
USC Alumni Center(3 stories)
Olympia Apartments (3-4 stories)
Keenan Building Reno
Sheraton Convention Center
Phase 1 of USC's development on Blossom(6-7 stories)
Addition on a restaurant on Lady Street
USC Law Center
Adluh Flour Reno
Hyatt hotel (6 stories)
USC indoor/outdoor practice field
Former USC indoor practice field Reno
500 Blossom(student housing) (4 stories)
520 Pendleton(student housing) (2-3 stories)
Palmetto Compress
Williams Brice Plaza
Awesome, was awaiting the next update because it's always tough to remember all of these. By the way, I've been out of the loop lately, but I've driven past the Palmetto Compress building and see very little evidence of anything being done besides the Pulaski street project. I could be wrong..
Awesome, was awaiting the next update because it's always tough to remember all of these. By the way, I've been out of the loop lately, but I've driven past the Palmetto Compress building and see very little evidence of anything being done besides the Pulaski street project. I could be wrong..
Rode by today and there's equipment on site and the properties been blocked off. It could also be them doing the sidewalks but that was a little too much equipment for just sidewalks. But I could be wrong.
True. Yeah, I was just wondering since the last time I drove by it was 3 or 4 days ago. It was insane the amount of construction I was seeing. I really can't wait to see that one apartment building at the corner of Blossom and Huger get underway. Seems like they've moved enough dirt around that they might actually start laying some of the foundation. IMO it's one of the prettier buildings out of the plethora of apartments going up in Columbia right now. Not to mention, the student tower on Assembly street will be nice looking as well.
Bleh. Oh well. With all the construction going on in the vicinity of the area, that makes sense.
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