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Does anyone know what is being developed on Wade Hampton between Wellington Ave and the old Travel Inn? I grew up a few blocks from there and I'm just curious. Internet search has yielded no information as of yet.
Not that I'm clamoring to see any more superstores, but I could see how that might be a good location for one. The closest Wal-Mart to this area is in Taylors. One at this location could draw customers from downtown, the North Main area, neighborhoods around E. North Street, the Augusta Road area, the Cleveland Park area, and maybe even neighborhoods near Laurens Road and S. Pleasantburg who want an alternative to Woodruff Road congestion. Also, there's a good mile or so between traffic lights on that stretch of Wade Hampton, so adding a Wal-Mart intersection in the middle shouldn't ever cause traffic to back up from one light to the next.
But it may well be for something different. If you know what that is, please post!
Are you sure that's not about another site, one which is close by?
Up until 3 or 4 years ago there were some apartments at the corner of Gilfilling & Brookside Circle called Holly Ridge which, honestly, had to have been low-income housing, based on the conditions, but they weren't gov't subsidized. My understanding was that developers wanted to turn that property into new low-income, gov't-subsidized housing. That housing, by the way, was expected to have much better conditions than its predecessor. That property is located diagonal (northeast) to the one that directly faces Wade Hampton.
You may be correct about the plans for low-income housing on the WH Blvd property as well, but I don't understand what the neighbors' fuss would be about. That location, a former mobile home community, seemed to be low income as well. But in all my years growing up a mere quarter mile from both properties, never once did I learn of any harm that might be stereotypical of poorer neighborhoods near middle-income neighborhoods. Property values rose much faster than the inflation rate. (My parents' house was bought in '86 for $103K; sold in '07 for $244K.) Crime was never an issue; I never knew of any neighbors who were attacked, vandalized, threatened, robbed, burglarized, etc. The area was as safe as anyone could ask a neighborhood to be, and I'm certain it still is. I just see no reason why newer, nicer, low-income housing would all of a sudden be a problem.
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