Building Our City
Folks, it’s time for Downtown, Phase II. So, we asked a varied and eclectic group of people how to make downtown better, for ideas that will take us to the next level. It’s that pesky vision thing. Here’s what they came up with ...
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OLD BUS BARN SITE
Building Our City: The VistaSCANA Corp. will begin demolition and cleanup today of one of the most prized pieces of real estate in Columbia — the old bus barn lot at Huger and Hampton streets.
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Building Our City: The Vista
After more than a decade of false starts and misfires, buildings are rising at CanalSide, the downtown neighborhood being built at the old prison site on the Columbia Canal.
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Innovista still retains the support of many faculty members at the University of South Carolina, despite problems the school has had in building and managing the research campus.
Demolition work to clear a site for Columbia’s new $11.6 million homeless shelter — or transition center, as supporters call it — could begin as early as October.
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Hardee's in Food Lion shopping center to be torn down, replaced by chicken restaurant
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- Gamecocks' Gilmore wise beyond his years
- Crowning moment: Tigers earn shot at title
- Family matters for Swinney
- Men's pregame: USC vs. Miami
- Morris: Loss to Maryland shaped Clemson's season rebound
- Professor's 'fake weed' now a real pain
- Clemson-Virginia: Thumbs up, thumbs down
- Gillespie: Parker becomes a difference-maker
- Seniors, Swinney exchange gifts
- Kids find body of missing SC teen on side of road
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Slideshows
Clemson vs. Virginia
High school cheerleading championships
Snapshots: High school cheerleading finals
2009 Colonial Cup in Camden
Snapshots: Vista Lights
Vista Lights
Richard Petty makes Midlands pit stop
Shawn Brown's Super Fun Show entertains Richland 1 students
Oyster Festival 2009
For a few years in the 1990s, the building at 701 Whaley St. was an arts center. Art will soon have a place in the building again.
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Readers want to see a downtown, all-local farmers market and more food and shopping on the Congaree River greenway.
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Residential and commercial development isn't just happening on the Columbia side of the Congaree River.
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The Columbia City Council on Wednesday is expected to abandon a plan for a historic overlay on the central campus of the State Hospital - a move that could clear the way for a sale of the sprawling property on Bull Street.
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The latest development plan for the controversial tract of land once known as Green Diamond is dead, according to a consultant who worked on the project.
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