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[GvilleSC]

This would be a great way to turn around Laurens Rd...

[btoy]

RestedTraveler, on May 23 2006, 04:33 PM, said:

There's no room for Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World with what has been proposed at the Magnolia Park Town Center.  Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World would, I speculate, be located at the Pelham Road Exit off of I-85 at the new Shopping Center being developed there.  I believe this because this is the site where I had originally thought Costco was looking to locate.

COSTCO at one time had an option on property where the HoldGold/Met Life used to stand on Pelham Rd.  I wonder what will end up on that site now.

[GSP Tiger]

GvilleSC, on May 24 2006, 06:28 AM, said:

This would be a great way to turn around Laurens Rd...

I do not see a viable location unless it was at I-85.  It seems to be a worse location because of the inefficient interchange.

Why not build Bass Pro Shops adjacently to The Home Depot on Woodruff Road?  I know Woodfruff Industrial Court has a few offices of some kind, but a developer coming in to buy it to tie it in with Verdae would be a boost in some way.

[vicupstate]

Please, nothing else on Woodruff Road ! Least of all, something one-of-a-kind that will draw from 50 miles plus.

[mallguy]

Bass Pro Shops in the West End or at County Square overlooking the river/park would be a great activity generator and tourism draw.  Mayor White and government officials, are you awake?  Public involvement would probably be needed to make this happen.

[RestedTraveler]

mallguy, on May 24 2006, 01:08 PM, said:

Bass Pro Shops in the West End or at County Square overlooking the river/park would be a great activity generator and tourism draw.  Mayor White and government officials, are you awake?  Public involvement would probably be needed to make this happen.

There are far better uses for the County Square / University Ridge than Bass Pro Shops Outdoor World.

[MAJIKMAN]

SHO NUF!

[mallguy]

True but Bass Pro Shops is a better use of County Square than cheap office space.  Buffalo, NY, I think, looked at getting BPS downtown, since the store is a major tourist draw.

I wouldn't ever shop at a place like Bass Pro Shops (not me, at all!) but I think it'd be good to have downtown since the middle-income families who love Main Street would flock there.  The same demographic that gets gear at Mast General Store might shop at BPS as well.

But probably yet another anchor that city leaders won't jump on to get downtown.

[RestedTraveler]

BPSOW is one of those places that you could definitely consider a "destination."  People will flock to it no matter where it is.  It would be so huge, suburban/rual, and out of place downtown.

I'd rather see County Square redeveloped into mixed-use office/residential with minimal or no retail component.  I'd rather see BPSOW out near I-85 and Pelham.  I bet the folks over in Spartanburg would be happy with that location as well, for the most part.

[Greenville]

I don't think Bass Pro Shops fits well at all downtown or in an urban location.  REI seems to prefer urban locations more than Bass Pro Shops, but I doubt we are big enough yet for an REI.

BPS belongs in the suburbs with easy interstate access (they seem to like the visibility, too).  I think Woodruff is too crowded.  As someone else mentioned, the new shopping center at Pelham and I-85 would be a good location for BPS (I would also prefer that Costco be there instead of Magnolia Park Town Center, a little farther from BJ's and Sam's, but oh well).

[distortedlogic]

I am not too worried about Laurens RD. With all the stuff going in at Mellenium/ICAR over hte next few years, it is not going away. I have to agree that Woodruff is not a good place for BPS to go (if indeed it's coming), it is about time to develop a different area as Woodruff has all it can handle now. I would like to see it go somewhere closer, perhaps Haywood, or Pleasantburg. As for REI, I don't think we would benefit too much from them, they are one of those typical outdoor specialty stores that is fun to look around in, but you can gett all the same stuff somewhere else, and everything costs about eight times as much as it should.

[mallguy]

Those are all good points re: BPS's location.  My view is just that downtown needs more anchors, and a BPS would be a big draw for downtown, even if most BPSs are in suburbs (such as the Concord Mills one).  Imagine a Bass Pro Shops in a building tailored to the area overlooking the river/park downtown- lots of wood construction to match the park and trees, what a boost to the West End!  This would come on the heels of having lost a few big catches, such as South Financial and Ruth's Chris, and would help keep downtown on the upswing.

[breed]

If county square gets redeveloped, then its replacement needs to be something more intense in its land use.  I don't know if BPS would qualify... maybe if if was the retail component of a larger, mixed-use development.

[btoy]

breed, on May 25 2006, 10:50 AM, said:

If county square gets redeveloped, then its replacement needs to be something more intense in its land use.  I don't know if BPS would qualify... maybe if if was the retail component of a larger, mixed-use development.

I see County Square redevelopment as a Mcbee Station or River Place on a much grander scale.

[GvilleSC]

Maybe this is what Pleasantburg needs....?

[g-man430]

Isn't Pleasantburg getting something like this called Renassiance Place? Duh.  

[mallguy]

I agree completely with the above posts re: County Square, insofar as they call for a mixed-use development.  A Bass Pro Shops, perhaps with a small lake or some kind of outdoor type part to make it a campus-style development, plus housing, office space, etc. would be great!  I just see BPS as going along well with having that park right below County Square- the outdoor theme of the store would blend in well.

[gsupstate]

Some inside scoop here.....one of the restaurants possibly coming to Magnolia.  Apparently friends with Gulfside....about to open a couple of additional in South Florida as well as Charlotte, DC, Atlanta and I'm hearing Greenville!         http://www.rasushi.com/

[distortedlogic]

Are you guys actually hearing rumors about county square redevelopment, or is it all still just wishful thinking?

[mallguy]

Just wishful thinking but fingers crossed- it happened once (when the Furman campus was demolished for the mall) and could happen again!