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Old Posted Jul 24, 2019, 11:49 PM
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Up next is the SC Arts & Events Center which is a $400 million mixed use development located in downtown Greenville. Partners include Hughes Investments, Windsor Aughtry, Bob Jones University, Greenville County Museum of Art, SGA Architecture, Rome Office, Craig Gaulden & Davis, CBRE, Clemson University, Nelson Nygaard, City of Greenville, Greenville County and the state of South Carolina . Included on this 7.1 acre site will be new museums for Bob Jones University and Greenville County Museum of Art totaling 87,000 square feet, a 68,000 square foot company conference center, parking garage, a 250 room Embassy Suites, and a TBD amount of office, retail, and residential space. Also a new state's tallest which will have condos and retail space on the bottom floor is potentially going to happen as part of this development. Construction is slated to start in 2020 with completion in 2022.

Official website: https://www.scartsandeventscenter.com

News articles:
-https://greenvillejournal.com/2019/0...to-greenville/
-https://gvltoday.6amcity.com/confere...-33819693#Poll
-https://www.wyff4.com/article/first-...enter/26889255
-https://www.wspa.com/news/plans-for-...een/1858576779
-https://www.greenvilleonline.com/sto...er/3214767002/

Some facts:
-The event center + art museums alone will cost $100 million, and will need a $26 million stake each from the city, county, and state (none of the three have officially approved those funds). Mayor Knox White says city funding could be contributed through a bond, to be repaid with tourism taxes. $5 million has been approved already in the S.C. House budget.
-Hughes and Windsor Aughtry are donating the land they own for the development.
-The conference center would span 68,000 sq ft. (for comparison, that’s about half the size of a typical Target), with a 25,000 sq. ft. ballroom, “jewel box” building feature, and exterior public gathering space that would front the Reedy. The event space could host an estimated 620 events each year.
-The Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery needs a more central, accessible location – after all, it does have one of the largest collections of European Old Master paintings in America (think Botticelli, Rubens, and van Dyck). The Museum & Gallery has been looking for a new home for its renowned collection after its 35,000 sq. ft. museum on the BJU campus closed for repairs in 2017, and got involved in the project when it heard about the potential for a walkable downtown location (with 60,000 sq. ft. of space).
-The Greenville County Museum of Art can only display about 5% of its collection at any given time. The new downtown space would nearly double its exhibit space, bringing the museum 25,000 more sq. ft. to show off works by artists like Andrew Wyeth, David Drake + Jasper Johns, which have previously been in storage.


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