A CHANGE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD: New building goes up beside an old one at Columbia’s Bull Street

Work is nearing completion on one of the buildings going up alongside Columbia’s new baseball park in downtown’s Bull Street neighborhood.

The 143,000-square-foot building will sit along the first base line of the 8,000-seat, $37 million Spirit Communications Park. The park will be home to the Columbia Fireflies, a new Class A minor league baseball team, and the centerpiece of what is planned as a massive new development at the old campus of the S.C. Department of Mental Health.