Frank M. Anderson's Writing

Tag: downtown Greenville

  • FROM THE ARCHIVE #1 — The Lonely White Walker (2012)

    FROM THE ARCHIVE #1 — The Lonely White Walker (2012)

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    Going through old folders tonight, I found The Lonely White Walker—a Walking Dead fanfic I wrote back in 2012—and I was honestly stunned to realize people had reviewed it. Not just clicked on it… actually read it, followed it chapter to chapter, left thoughtful comments, waited for updates. I had forgotten that entirely. And honestly,…

  • Seen / Unseen Greenville: Woodruff Road and Greenville’s Growing System Problem

    Seen / Unseen Greenville: Woodruff Road and Greenville’s Growing System Problem

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    Future City Greenville is the systems and planning side of Seen / Unseen Greenville. Instead of focusing mainly on history, it explores where Greenville is headed and how growth, infrastructure, development, traffic, housing, and city-county coordination shape daily life. At its core, it asks a simple question: What kind of regional system are we actually…

  • Seen / Unseen Greenville: What Kind of City Are We Becoming?

    Seen / Unseen Greenville: What Kind of City Are We Becoming?

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    Over the past few weeks, this project has honestly felt a little chaotic at times. I’ve produced a flood of material:-history posts,-city planning discussions,-maps,-timelines,-personal memories,-civic frustrations,-philosophical essays,-local observations,-and probably far too many long-form posts for the average Facebook scroll session. At times, I imagine it has looked less like a coherent project and more like…

  • Seen / Unseen Greenville: The Map Beneath the Map

    Seen / Unseen Greenville: The Map Beneath the Map

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    Welcome to The Map Beneath the Map- a historical branch of Seen / Unseen Greenville exploring the older layers underneath modern Greenville When most people think about Greenville, they think about the version they can immediately see. Falls Park. Main Street. The bridge. The restaurants. The polished downtown that shows up in tourism campaigns and…

  • Seen / Unseen Greenville: Reading the Budget Like a Map

    Seen / Unseen Greenville: Reading the Budget Like a Map

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    How a city reveals itself through money, priorities, and infrastructure. I’ll admit something upfront: I did not sit down and fully read Greenville’s entire proposed FY2027 budget. What actually caught my attention was a Facebook post from the City of Greenville summarizing some of the major priorities: transportation improvements, trails and greenways, affordable housing initiatives,…

  • Seen / Unseen Greenville: A Timeline of the City Beneath the City

    Seen / Unseen Greenville: A Timeline of the City Beneath the City

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    What came before—and what never fully left Greenville can feel like a new city. A growing city.A successful city.A city figuring itself out in real time. But that version of Greenville—the one most of us experience day to day—is only the latest layer. What makes Greenville interesting isn’t just what it is now. It’s how…

  • Seen / Unseen Greenville: A City Divided

    Seen / Unseen Greenville: A City Divided

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    There are parts of Greenville that feel like they’ve always belonged together. Downtown.The parks.The places people point to when they talk about how far the city has come. And then there are the other parts. The neighborhoods you don’t end up in by accident.The streets that don’t connect the way you expect them to.The invisible…

  • Seen / Unseen Greenville: When Everything Started Pointing Downtown

    Seen / Unseen Greenville: When Everything Started Pointing Downtown

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    This weekend, downtown Greenville is overflowing for Artisphere. And honestly, that is a good thing. Twenty or thirty years ago, the idea that Greenville would host a nationally respected arts festival drawing huge crowds into downtown would have sounded almost absurd to a lot of locals. The city built something real here. People genuinely want…

  • Seen / Unseen Greenville: What Do We Want These Buildings to Be?

    Seen / Unseen Greenville: What Do We Want These Buildings to Be?

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    Lately, as I drive around Greenville and through other parts of South Carolina, I keep returning to a question that became much more personal after my own attempt to open a coffee shop: What do we actually want these empty places to become? That question sounds simple until you try to build something yourself. From…

  • Greenville, SC and the Business of Drinking

    Greenville, SC and the Business of Drinking

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    I started drinking young. Twelve or thirteen, somewhere in there. Young enough that it should sound absurd now, but normal enough that it barely raised eyebrows then. Drinking looked fun. It looked grown. It looked like what adults did when they wanted to celebrate, loosen up, laugh louder, and become bigger versions of themselves. For…