Tag: south carolina
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Seen / Unseen Greenville: Reading the Budget Like a Map
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,…
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Seen / Unseen Greenville: What Do We Want These Buildings to Be?
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…
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Four Greenvilles
When people talk about Greenville, they usually talk about it like it is one place with one shared experience. A single city moving in one direction with one story to tell. But that has never really been true. Greenville is several Greenvilles at once. Different versions of the same city, living beside each other, shaping…
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Seen / Unseen Greenville: Cherokee Ground Beneath Greenville
Greenville is a city that likes to talk about what comes next. We talk about growth, new restaurants, bike trails, development, rankings, housing prices, and whether traffic has finally become unbearable. We talk about what Greenville is becoming. That makes sense. Growing places often become a little obsessed with the future. But places are not…
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I Worry About the World My Son Is Growing Into
I worry. A lot. I worry about myself. I worry about my son. I worry about the world we’re handing him and whether we’re even being honest about what that world looks like. Because if I’m being real, when I look at the people in charge right now, it doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. It makes…
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