SCC Downtown Campus (The Evans Building)

[Spartan]

Nice, thanks for the updates!

[hub-city]

The college apparantly want to remove the huge mural and replace the windows and bring the building back to the original design, but a small group (including the mural's designer) want to keep it in place. 

 

I pesonally do not like the mural and think it cheapens the look of the building,  Any other opinions?

[roads-scholar]

The college apparantly want to remove the huge mural and replace the windows and bring the building back to the original design, but a small group (including the mural's designer) want to keep it in place. 

 

I pesonally do not like the mural and think it cheapens the look of the building,  Any other opinions?

Agree!  I drove by the building Saturday and didn't understand the fuss about the mural.

[Spartan]

I drove by this weekend, and I was surprised that they took down most of the old oak trees.

[hub-city]

The mural will be taken down.  They are giving the artist a chance to save it.  it apparantly is on slabs that can be removed and then put back together.  Didn't know that.  The college will also devote some space inside for pics etc...

[Spartan]

That's good. Maybe they can put it up somewhere else in downtown. I assume there are windows under there?

[Sparkleman]

Its really fugly, they should do away with it all together.

[westsider28]

Renovations continue.  Several of the new windows have been installed.  They're meant to look like the original ones did back in the '20s.  Notice the difference between the new windows (third floor) and the ones that are being removed (first floor) in the second picture.

 

[westsider28]

I just found this issue of the SCC Evans Chronicle (PDF), which is from December, but it has a good bit of info about the renovations.

 

Some highlights: Renovations should be complete July 1, with classes starting in August.  The auditorium chair end-caps will be refurbished, but the seats themselves will be replaced.  The gym will be refurbished (refinish wood floor, add AC, etc).  The original entrances will remain, but the main entrance will be on the Broad Street side (back of building, near parking).  SC Works will occupy 12,000 sq ft on the first floor.  The site will be an arboretum (which helps with the LEED-Silver designation).  There will be over 25 varieties of trees and many different shrubs & ground covers.

[Spartan]

How is this site going to be an arboretum when they removed half of the large trees?

[westsider28]

Most of the new windows have been installed, concrete is being poured for new stairs and sidewalks, and some landscaping has been put in.  Here are a few recent photos I took from atop the Kennedy Garage:

 

[roads-scholar]

This building's transformation, along with the property it sits on, is really amazing!  Kudos to SCC for undertaking and investing in this valuable downntown landmark.

[Spartan]

The Catholic church is coming along nicely too!

[westsider28]

Renovations continue. Small windows have been installed and painted (photo 1). More concrete sidewalks & stairs have also been completed.

 

[westsider28]

Here's another quick update.  The front parking lot and part of the rear lot have been paved.  Landscaping (trees, bushes, mulch) continues to be added around the property.  Streetlights have also been installed.  It looks like the clock has been taken down (presumably to be refurbished).  SCC is having an open house for the downtown campus on August 6.

 

[westsider28]

I went to the open house on Tuesday.  The building looks great!  They are still putting a few finishing touches on the place, but it's basically ready to go.  Here are some photos:

 

[hub-city]

Thanks so much for the photos. You do a great job keeping us up to date. Keep up the great work!

[Spartan]

They have done an outstanding job restoring that building. Very impressive! Thanks for the photos!

[westsider28]

SCC posted some photos on Flickr of the first day of classes at the DT campus.  There have been a few updates since I was there (the seats are back in the auditorium).  Lots of great photos of the building in general, too!

[westsider28]

Just thought I'd post a few more photos from the past few weeks to sort of wrap things up.

 

 

There's a lot of landscaping.  After a few years of growth, it should look really good.  The rear entrance plaza (photo 5) has permeable pavers, which is nice.  I didn't know the clock lit up.  That's pretty cool.  Finally, you can see the new signage in the last photo.  There's one at each corner of the property, basically.

[westsider28]

There's been a ton of digging and dirt-moving at the corner of the property near the Broad Street connection to Main.  As I suspected, it's going to be a large fountain.  Here are a few photos:

 

 

Spartanburg certainly has a thing for fountains.  They're everywhere!

[Sparkleman]

Man we are the home to fountains and bikes. Now if we could just find a way to get some of that water flowing through downtown we'd really have something.

[Spartan]

What a great place for a fountain!

 

I wish more of our fountains were in plazas that were accessible to pedestrianss. It would be really cool to see a self-guided walking tour of Spartanburg's fountains.

[Spartan]

SCC is moving their business school to their downtown campus. I think any chance to get entrepreneurial minded people in downtown is a good thing.

http://www.goupstate.com/news/20170811/scc-moves-business-school-to-downtown-campus