Florence Developments

[jjoshjl]

San Francisco is my dream city... Personally, its my favorite city, well, anywhere... Being a programmer, i just have to droll at all the possibilities there with Silicon Valley so close.. Maybe even one day get a job working at M5 Industries!!!! (are you listening Jammie Hyneman?!!!)

That being said, I'm just going to have to limit myself to listening to Radio [email protected] through I-Tunes....

Ahhh... to live in SF

Cheers

[Spartan]

San Fran is definitely a different world from li'l of Florence. But, lets try to stick to Florence-related matters.

[fupaladin]

Very interesting new website. I compared my old zip code (29501) to my current zip code (94087).

http://zipskinny.com/

[thebarb20]

i rode on the new 301 by pass sunday just to check it out. my thoughts on the road were this

1. it seemed quite longer than expected

2. there is almost nothing around it the whole way through, it was like cutting a road through a forest or field. nothing at all there

3. who owns the surrounding property of this new road?

4. there seems to be some kinda of land work being done near Palmetto ST. and this new bypass. maybe a mixed-use development or shopping center, basically it was just clearing land and possibly adding roads, i couldnt really tell too much.

most of this road is 2 land w/ a center turn lane but it will eventually end up wider over time im sure. speed limit 55 i think.

[flotown]

i rode on the new 301 by pass sunday just to check it out. my thoughts on the road were this

1. it seemed quite longer than expected

2. there is almost nothing around it the whole way through, it was like cutting a road through a forest or field. nothing at all there

3. who owns the surrounding property of this new road?

4. there seems to be some kinda of land work being done near Palmetto ST. and this new bypass. maybe a mixed-use development or shopping center, basically it was just clearing land and possibly adding roads, i couldnt really tell too much.

most of this road is 2 land w/ a center turn lane but it will eventually end up wider over time im sure. speed limit 55 i think.

I'm glad this road finally got built. It makes getting to I-95 and FMU much quicker. I haven't been on it yet but I will this week. The road is basically running through swampland (it roughly follows the yellow line below), which is why it has taken so long to be built. It will certainly help the area around Freedom Florence to grow. Until now, the road leading to the FF complex has been a dead end to nowhere.

[Spartan]

Is that not in the middle of a river most of the way?

[flotownscot]

Downtown Florence Update:

Retail space, professional space and a new 6 story apartment complex planned:

http://www.scnow.com/midatlantic/scp/news....12-31-0013.html

[Spartan]

excellent news! Its good to see Florence investing some money to clean up downtown and working to get grants too.

[jjoshjl]

Good News on that all around.. I'd be really interested in seeing some renderings for the 6 story. I know its just a mayba, but just that fact that there is interest is a good sign

Cheers

[atlrvr]

Ouch...this was from a story on ESPN today.

Were his bike, say, gray, Holmes would more easily slip into the backdrop of the east side of Florence, a downtrodden section of a downtrodden city littered by double-wide trailers, wayward drug dealers and the shattered Budweiser bottles, used condoms, McDonald's wrappers and crumpled newspapers that seem to pock each dirt road and cement walkway.

[distortedlogic]

Wow, that is an Ouch! What was this in reference to?

[flotown]

Good find.

Here's the article. A truly pathetic waste of potential.

As for the portrayal of Florence...no, not good PR for the city.

ESPN

[flotownscot]

ESPN columnist apologizes and says:

"I truly was trying to describe the areas Clayton has lived, not the entire town. It

[Spartan]

He should have apologized for that. Good for him.

Does anyone agree with this statement:

[distortedlogic]

Yes to a degree. Most things are what you make it to be.

Good for the florence people. That was an unfair and rather offensive description of it.

[flotownscot]

Update on the performing arts center:

http://www.scnow.com/midatlantic/scp/news....02-26-0013.html

I thought this was an interesting quote:

He noted that Florence

[flotown]

Man, I've been away for 3 months and only 4 posts in the interim. Where is everybody? Anyway, here are some pics I took this week of some downtown construction sites.

First, the land has been cleared for the apartment complex on North Coit (5-6 stories?)

Looking north:

Looking west:

Looking east:

12 story McLeod tower is in the background

Looking south:

A lot has been cleared across from the McMillan Federal Building on Evans St. Unsure what's going there.

Finally, here's the progress on the Little Theatre on Dargan St.

Looking southwest:

A low res pan looking west:

Looking northwest:

There's still no progress on the FMU performing arts center @ Palmetto and Dargan. I don't know what the holdup is.

Edited April 13, 2008 by flotown

[Spartan]

Florence is amazingly flat

thanks for the updates on those projects. We need dedicated Florentians like you to keep the conversation active!

[thebarb20]

The project on Coit St. is going along quite well. Im surprised the FMU Arts Center is slow developing. They do a whole lot of talking about it for no frame yet. It's good to see some development down there.

[thebarb20]

http://www.scnow.com/scp/news/local/pee_de...zen_meals/7172/

This is excellent news for Florence . This will further diversify the employer base and help develop the energy park. This will help offset some of the mortgage trouble b/c we have 3 companies involved in that industry. BofA, WaMu and Assurant

[flotownscot]

Has this website been shared?

http://www.florencedowntown.com/

It's the website of the downtown development corporation for Florence. It's fun to browse and to look at the "renderings" on top of each page. Maybe the real thing will look like those renderings one day!

[flotownscot]

Here is a rendering of Coit Street Village - the apartment development downtown currently under construction:

[krazeeboi]

Made to look like historic shopfronts...I like that. Will the project include any street-level retail? That would be even better.

[flotownscot]

no, I think it's all residential... I wish it had street level retail.

[Spartan]

Wow this is a big step for Florence. The lack of street retail is frustrating, but considering that this is a first for Florence, its a good thing.