Palmetto Bank Moving Headquarters to Downtown Greenville!

[whitehourseview]

Hey guys! G-man is keeping his promise not to join UP and (subsequently) get banned anymore; however, he sent me an e-mail with a rendering of this building. It's not too shabby.

I agree with vicupstate. This does resemble the Carolina First building to a great extent. This will be a nice addition to that area.

[vicupstate]

I have recently noticed that the Right-of-Way in front of the new Fed Courthouse site (E. North & Church) has gotten some new plantings/landscaping. The city has really done a lot of that kind of thing all over town and it really does help appearances. The new McAllister landscaping is neat too. The parking lots are going to be concealed to a pretty significant degree when the new trees get established.

[erm1981]

We are doing the masonry on this building due to its very fancy stone and brick work.

[GvilleSC]

I like it a lot! The Palmetto Bank HQ will be a great addition. I like its positioning on the property. Hopefully the front set back isn't too great. This should make for a great ride down Church Street. Has there been any mention of a time table for construction?

[erm1981]

next year sometime is all i know

[distortedlogic]

This does look like a beautiful building with good architecture (just wish it were about 10 stories ).

There is a huge parking lot behind the current building, any clue about what will be done with that? Please don't tell me it will still be a surfce parking lot

[gs3]

The rendering looks great! Very solid looking building.

[krazeeboi]

Looks nice; I like the "wings" at the top of the building. It would be even better if some street-level retail were to be included on the ground floor, maybe a small coffee shop or deli.

[whitehourseview]

Looks nice; I like the "wings" at the top of the building. It would be even better if some street-level retail were to be included on the ground floor, maybe a small coffee shop or deli.

[GvilleSC]

It would be gutsy for them to place ground-floor retail in the building at the moment. Ideally though, one day North Street will be built out to this point and be pedestrian friendly. It's a great location with respect to Main Street, the Bilo Center, and the Courthouses. This poses a delima. Do you plan for a big "Maybe" in the future, or in several years do you regret that you didn't...?

I would like to see the County Courthouse across the street to move to a new tower somewhere downtown. Tear down and develop the new portion of the court house, and renovate the old portion of the courthouse into a retail center with 3 floors of retail accessable from the inside. Something like the West End Market.

[krazeeboi]

That isn't a great location for street level retail: busy four lane road on one side and busy one way street on another. It's about three blocks from main street, so little chance of walk up traffic. I would imagine that Palmetto Bank would prefer their office to just remain wholly their's for the time being.

[GvilleSC]

What's going on with the Palmetto Bank? There is the building right behind their building that has been recently fixed up and has a new awning with their logo on it. It seems like they might be moving there while their building is torn down and the new building goes up? Does anyone know if that's the case, or if i just never noticed this building before?

[goodbye]

That is precisely what is about to happen.

[gs3]

So the new corporate headquarters will be in the same spot as the existing building? For some reason, I had assumed it would be built in the empty parking lot beside the current building.

[RestedTraveler]

That's my understanding of what had been described previously, yes. The new building will replace the current one.

[distortedlogic]

So what will be done wit the parking lot? Will it just remain an open parking lot?

[vicupstate]

So what will be done wit the parking lot? Will it just remain an open parking lot?

[gs3]

That's my understanding of what had been described previously, yes. The new building will replace the current one.

[gs3]

You guys should check out the photo Spartan posted in the Spartanburg forum of the new Carolina First building in DT Spartanburg. Looks great and makes impact. From what I've seen of the renderings of this new Palmetto Bank building, it will be similar in style / height, so I would think it will have a very good, solid presence on this corner.

[erm1981]

Well of course its going to be great since we are building it. Sort of silly for you to think differently now! jk.

[goodbye]

You guys should check out the photo Spartan posted in the Spartanburg forum of the new Carolina First building in DT Spartanburg. Looks great and makes impact. From what I've seen of the renderings of this new Palmetto Bank building, it will be similar in style / height, so I would think it will have a very good, solid presence on this corner.

[krazeeboi]

I don't think the architectural design will be similar (I don't really see any brick in the rendering of PB's HQs), but I think the impact and "street presence" will be similar, just in something of a different context.

[gs3]

Thought this was kind of cool. Palmetto Bank planted 100 Oak trees during the month of December in communities they serve.

http://www.palmettobank.com/press_room.asp

[deltad22]

Thought this was kind of cool. Palmetto Bank planted 100 Oak trees during the month of December in communities they serve.

http://www.palmettobank.com/press_room.asp

[g-man430]

^^^The building next to the Palmetto Bank's current location that the bank will move to temporarily while construction takes place is almost completely finished and upfitted, so I would say you should start to see demolition of the old building begin in a few months.