here at 10 o'clock the city of Spartanburg is planning ahead for what downtown will look like in the future a couple million dollars from the state is helping create a Gateway into downtown Fox Carolina's Kennedy Harris shows us the plan and the potential impacts on neighborhoods around downtown driving into downtown on West Main Street you'll see mostly vacant lots and vacant buildings that area is primed for redevelopment we just need to do what we can to sort of fertilize the soil already hom
e to the AC hotel and future Coca-Cola plant this area will be a major Corridor when the new baseball stadium takes shape and right now it's not a very pleasant walk up that way that will change soon the city streetscape project will make it more pedestrian friendly and attractive if you make the streetscape itself look nicer it makes it that much easier for folks who might be interested in developing those properties to see their vision four million dollars from the state budget will fund the p
roject improvements begin right here at the railroad tracks all the way up the road to the QT gas station it's a big boost to our economic Mobility especially for our residents here in Highland which is one of the closest neighborhoods to downtown the historically black neighborhood was once a self-sustaining Community but was diminished by by a crime wave in urban renewal now they have a plan to bounce back what this helps to do is to bring the vibrancy back to the neighborhood the resident-led
plan details the type of Housing and Development Highland needs to become a mixed income Community Moore knows Highlands proximity to the city makes the land Prime real estate her fear is that growth will lead to displacement something has happened that don't go according to the plan so that's where my concern comes in but she's hopeful their plan will be the guide to provide the right change a vibrant new neighborhood that has held on to them oh the Legacy in the history Kennedy Harris Fox Car
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