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Originally Posted by Growingup15
Now you're thinking up my alley. That would be awesome. there's so much untapped potential in that little spot like literally it could easily be like 4 blocks gridded up and have mixed used on every block, and more infilling up Meeting Street since we know they are about to make Meeting more Pedestrian friendly there's an opportunity to connect Meeting Street from the River to Triangle City. to make it a more cohesive, dense corridor.
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Yeah Meeting Street and certainly Triangle City represents an opportunity to create a second place in "Second City" another branding opportunity
On a related note.. I wonder why Jarvis Kaplan Blvd simply ends in Augusta Highway?! You wonder why it did not go all the way to I-26 and have its own interchange. This road I-126 and SC 277 all function as expressways but dont directly connect with other networks. I suspect the designers (likely with political influence) wanted to speed traffic up from the west into downtown, bypass residential areas, but wanted to take advantage of development opportunities by having a cloverleaf with 26 as opposed to an expressway which may not have direct access to the to the adjacent properties. Having be a "street" allowed for commercial development that likely benefited the landowners/developers who have put all the gas stations, commercial space along the stretch between 26 and where JK Blvd begins....
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If you look at the above aerial.. it also represents a "hodge podge" planning approach.. You have large commercial centers and a somewhat "denser" townhome developent that is behind it.. One would think those folks may want to walk to the Westside Shopping Center, but there is no way to do that .. safely... There is no sidewalk along Dreher Rd and to put a walk way inside the development would take you to loading dock dumpsters and drainage line.. I know the shopping center was there way before the townhomes but a sidewalk along Dreher Road would help the development and the long term residents that live along it.. Maybe there is one there now or planned ... lets hope so...
Kind of an interesting area.. if more homes are developed behind the Walmart.. WestCo may want to see if they can acquire the land around that lake next to Hites BBQ off of Dreher Road.. turn it into a park..put in a walk way from that up past the Westside Shopping Center and Walmart to Augusta Road as a walking trail of sorts. Could be a nice niche of new residents and possibly a park for all in that area.. not sure there is a park in that area now. Lots of cool stuff could happen in WestCo
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