The Team Blog

Fast growing TD Bank is adding 300 jobs to their call center along I-85 in Greenville.  That is an addition to the 250 auto finance jobs announced last year.  With these additions, TD will have about 1400 employees at the center.  TD acquired financially troubled South Financial in 2010 and has apparently gone very well for them.  The call center sits in the Millennium Campus which is central to Greenville, Mauldin, and the shopping hub of Woodruff Road.  Residential sales along this corridor has been robust as homeowners attempt to stay in closer to the city center.   The nearby Verdae Development has a lot of new homes being built, but is on a rare tract of land that is undeveloped.  A spur to the popular Swamp Rabbit walking and biking trail is also set to extend to the Millennium Campus.  Lots of action coming to this area of town.

Developer Burt Moiser LLC has given 6 acres near The Lofts of Greenville to the Greenville Revitilization Corporation (GRC), to be turned into a downtown Greenville community park.  Since this area is pretty close to downtown Greenville and the Swamp Rabbit Trail, it will be a great addition to the developing West Side of Greenville.  The property was part of the old Monaghan Mill, and the GRC plans to incorporate some mill history into this park.  Other plans include a playground, walking trails, and an area  that will accommodate outdoor movies.  A portion of the area will be used for parking for the Monaghan Methodist Church.  The old Monaghan Mill was converted into a luxury apartment complex in 2006, and retains a lot of the mill's historical flavor.

In the midst of downtown Greenville's west end development, Gas station Quik Trip (QT) is trying to get a 24 hour zoning variance for a store at Academy and Markley Street, which just across from the Kroc Center and right in the middle of the real estate explosion in the West End.  Of course, since the area is so close to downtown Greenville and in an area where high end condos and apartments are becoming commonplace, there is a lot of commotion from residents and business owners about the development. This location is really a gateway into the attractive downtown area, so it certainly will be under scrutiny from the City of Greenville as well. 

it will be a spectacular spot to visit. The Swamp Rabbit Trail runs just below the park and runs directly into Cleveland Park, the largest central park in the downtown area.  The area and trail are very popular with walkers and cyclists and there is a push to extend a secondary leg of the Swamp Rabbit Trail.  Nearby residential real estate  in downtown Greenville has exploded as small homes up on Campertown have been removed and brand new, high end homes going up.  This has been a trend over the past few years - the limited amount of real estate that is near Falls Park and within golf cart distance to central Greenville have been under intense pressure for redevelopment.   The Cancer Survivors Park fits in nicely and gives another nice getaway for those urban dwellers.

If you live in Simpsonville and shop along Fairview Rd, then you have likely seen that big pasture with cows just across from Target and TJ Maxx.  Seems kinda out of place since the rest of Fairview is well developed with commercial businesses and all sorts of shopping.  Well, that 22 acre parcel has been getting some consideration from the city of Simpsonville as they are looking at annexing it and rezoning to general business.  It is just the first reading of the proposal, so there is still a ways to go, but perhaps that corner will anchor a grocery store in the future. That crossroads is a gateway into residential areas of Simpsonville that tend to be more rural in nature. There are, however, many subdivisions along Harrison Bridge Road as it wraps back toward W. Georgia Rd and the Greenville Tech Campus.  There are several new real estate developments along that stretch that will certainly add customers to the Fairview Road commercial district.  All those businesses are to quick reach and there is also good access to I-385 at two interchanges. Simpsonville real estate is growing!

We have heard a lot of intermittent news about a park near the Kroc Center and the Reedy River that will transform the West End of downtown Greenville. The latest update is that the City of Greenville has selected an urban design company to develop the master plan for the park. But first they need to negotiate fees for this consultation process and then get to work on the master plan.  There is still no real certainty that this park will come to exist, but there is a lot of excitement associated with a new public park in town. But even if progress on the park along the Reedy River is painfully slow, development along Academy Street and out toward the Pendleton Art District has certainly picked up.  Several commercial and residential projects are in full swing, as developers have been quick to jump on opportunities in a transition area of town.  Much of the residential structures in this area are tiny and old mill homes from the textile era of Greenville; these are either getting fixed up or demolished to make way for new dwellings.  A couple of the old mills have been converted to stylish apartments or condos and offer a different type of living experience that utilizes the old buildings. All the activity in the WestEnd Greenvillecomes as pressures to live near the downtown area have mounted and available space in the more traditional areas of Augusta Road and North Main areas have dwindled. Residential real estate development and renovation  in those areas has been on fire in the past year, with an emphasis on creating high end homes from small existing homes that have a few years on them.  Regardless if the new park makes it or not, changes are coming to the West End and you will see a big change in housing there in the next few years.

According the a census in 2009, downtown Greenville's core had 746 residents but 2014 had jumped to 1,020.  That trend seems to be  continuing as large apartment projects are underway or planned to happen.  There are a few high end condos popping up like The Perimeter, but are dwarfed by the number of units the apartments are offering.  Young urban professionals are fueling the fire for downtown living and they are also investing in small mill village homes around the perimeter of the downtown district.  These mill homes are usually very small and need major updating, plus represent a risk since the neighborhoods are in transition, however, they are getting fixed up at a steady rate. So,  the downtown living area is expanding  not only to established areas like North Main and the Augusta Road area, but into less expensive areas as well.