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-21,700 and -27,500 jobs speak for themselves. I guess NewYorkBorn is a know-it-all Yankee after all. If I thought Columbia were inferior, I'd go into the positive Greenville forums (as though there were any negative ones) and try to turn them into a conversation about how Columbia is better. Sound familiar?
Apparently the Big G (as you say) is more on par than Columbia per Southwest Airlines, Apple, Whole Foods, Trader Joes and all the retail coming to Greenville, that isn't coming to Columbia. Tell them quick, close those locations, Greenville is a ghost town and all the jobs are in Columbia (where the unemployment rate is only half a percentage point better). LMAO!
Tell Proterra and Sage and ATW and CT&T not to open headquarters in ghost town Greenville and open those headquarters in Columbia. LMAO!
I'm sorry you feel Columbia is so inferior, that in a thread about air service, you have to interject off topic info about jobs. I am happy Columbia has been able to maintain the same amount of jobs it had in the year 2000, especially given the fact that Innovista has been such a failure. Mindless, suck off the taxpayer, government jobs will keep Columbia stable, but not interesting.
Midlands insecurity at its finest.
Southwest found Greenville to be a lucrative market WITHOUT incentives......Southwest turned down Columbia and found it not a viable market even WITH incentives.
Those are the facts. Sorry if it hurts.
All of the stores you mentioned are suburban. Yuck, boo, hiss. And once again you are equating Innovista's status with the status of two buildings that haven't been built yet because the bottom dropped out of the economy and the space isn't needed now, whereas the true status of Innovista is reflected in the research and start-up business it is producing. Innovista isn't a place. It's a concept. And if it were a place thank God it wouldn't be in the suburbs. Up 500 jobs or down 21,700 jobs since 2000, both cities are wonderful. How's that for fairness?
Did anybody bring popcorn because I love the Innovista excuses!!! My favorite is definitely that the research campus is a "concept" not a place. I'm pretty sure the failed leaders of the campus only thought of it as a concept, too... and, look where we are in 2010...
And, Greenville residents: we should all be REALLY upset apparently that CU-ICAR is located on the Hollingsworth property. What it means for us is this: Greenville is going to have an additional, concentrated employment center outside of downtown Greenville. So ultimately, our first BRT line is going to have destinations is what he's saying... It's going to have the concentration of people to actually be used. Dang it! Arrrrrggg! Be angry!!!!
Did anybody bring popcorn because I love the Innovista excuses!!! My favorite is definitely that the research campus is a "concept" not a place. I'm pretty sure the failed leaders of the campus only thought of it as a concept, too... and, look where we are in 2010...
I love these excuses too. Hysterical. If Innovista is now "a concept" why do people keep referencing the Innovista Campus in the Vista? How can a "concept" have boundaries?
The excuse making, 5 years later, for the failure of Innovista is funny.
Since this is a thread about air service, wonder if Innovista's failure factored into the decision of Southwest not to serve Columbia?
The Strom Thurmond Fitness Center and beautiful adjacent intramural field, the Colonial Life Arena, the Greek Village, the Ben Arnold School of Public Health (highly regarded nationally), the bio-sciences building, the SCRA Columbia-USC high-tech business incubator, the Carolina Coliseum, Carolina Stadium (home of the 2010 College World Series national champions baseball team), and the shops and bars that have located and are preparing to locate within the boundaries of the Innovista district to be near the growth, do not spell failure to me.
And I didn't mention the Horizon I building that only needs interior up-fitting when the economy comes back and the space is needed, or the internationally known and highly regarded Moore School of Business to be built (designed by a New York architect) in the district over the next couple of years. Am I missing something?
I think SW took a circumspect approach in entering the SC market and that Columbia just happens to not quite match their formula right now. It's as simple as that. I am sure they would be the first to tell you that they in no way see Columbia and USC as failures. I wish the Columbia haters would lay off.
You're so laughable! You make a post saying that: 'maybe one day the big G will catch back up with Columbia'. And, we gave proof that Greenville's not lacking or envious of the capital city. As a result, we're called haters and told to lay off...
I used the term haters because of all the talk about how Columbia and USC are failures. And I'm sure I made the crack about Greenville needing to catch back up just out of the blue as opposed to using it to counter a negative comment about Columbia, right?
I used the term haters because of all the talk about how Columbia and USC are failures. And I'm sure I made the crack about Greenville needing to catch back up just out of the blue as opposed to using it to counter a negative comment about Columbia, right?
Columbia and USC being failures are your own words, sir.
CU-ICAR was brought up to negate your doom and gloom comment about Greenville's jobs, and to provide evidence that well-paid positions and new HQ's have been attracted to Greenville despite the economy and despite not having adequate air service. The air service is about to change in 2011, however. But, yea, Greenville isn't on par with the capital city.
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