New officers have been named to the GADC for the coming year. Here’s an excellent article with all the information about the GADC board for 2021-2022 from Greenville Business Magazine.
The GADC has been very involved in helping respresent the Upstate to companies around the U.S. and around to world to try to get them to establish a business presence here.
A few weeks ago I was driving along Laurens Road in Greenville heading towards Verdae. On the northeast corner at Laurens and Verdae I noticed that the land had been cleared and it was a fairly large parcel. I’d never really noticed it before because it was so hidden by trees and brush along Laurens. Turns out this is going to be the new and very impressive headquarters for Southern First Bank.
The Upstate Business Journal does a great job of talking through how Southern First Bank decided they needed a new HQ and what their plans are for the building. This will be a stunning addition to the area and seems to be a great example of some of the beautiful new buildings going up in Greenville.
Fox Hill Business Park / Fox Carolina
The first major Class A business park development in 20 years was announced last month. The massive 172 acre development was announced by the Greenville Area Development Corporation. The development will be named Fox Hill Business Park. GADC chose New Jersey Developer, Sudler Companies to develop the property.
It’s a very impressive and ambitious plan with nearly 2.5 million square feet of development designed to meet the needs for manufacturing, distribution or warehouse. It demonstrates that there is strong belief that the growth we have seen in the Upstate of South Carolina will continue. Greenville Business Magazine’s story on the Fox Hill Business Park has a lot of excellent additional details about the development project.
Fountain Inn is within easy access to the Inland Port and GSP Airport as well as interstate 385 and 85. There is also lots of expected housing growth in the Fountain Inn area. Greenville County Schools is also building a brand new Fountain Inn High School. It’s set to open for the fall 2021 – if we ever go back to school again 🙂
NAI Earle Furman will be working with Sudler Companies to market the property.
37 Acre County Square Billion Dollar Development Concept – Greenville, SC
There’s a billion dollar development project going in front of the City of Greenville Planning Commission next week. This is the 37 acre area known as County Square. This seems like a very exciting developement for Greenville but some on the council are holding out for affordable housing. I’ve seen this happen across the country. I’m not sure what it is with these city councils but I guess they see that they have an opportunity to peel off some money from big developers. There’s plenty of areas around Greenville where “affordable housing” government style would fit in just fine. Stop messing with the developers. Perhaps they can pay off the council by carving out $20-$30 million for the city to go build a housing project elsewhere in the city.
Check out the video below which does a beautiful job of explaining the billion proposal. There’s no way the Greenville County Council will vote this down but it’s still up in the air on the City of Greenville Council.