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Downtown GREENVILLE SC REAL ESTATE life draws homeowners
Some came to escape the big city. Some fled the suburbs. Some were born here, left and came back again.
For nearly all of those came who live in downtown Greenville, the Greenville real estate, the attraction was the same -- downtown Greenville....a tree-lined Main Street, alive with music and food and entertainment near and far from some of the downtown Greenville real estate. A waterfall in a historic park, slowly becoming a world-class garden. Greenville's SC street festivals several times a week during the long warm season.
All within walking distance of downtown Greenville SC.
"We think its a very livable city, and being half a mile away from downtown is just fantastic," said 29-year-old Angie Honohan, who just moved from Atlanta and purchased Greenville real estate on Pinckney Street with her husband Andrew, a mechanical engineer.
Her dogs - Murphy and Courage, both Labs -- love their Greenville SC home too.
"They like to be around people, so walking downtown with them is nice," she said, as movers unloaded a truck at the front of her 93-year-old Queen Anne style home. "There's lots of tables where you can sit outside and bring them along."
She and Andrew, 31, had just bought a piece of history - the "Dr. Anderson House," listed on the National Historic Register.
Between the two of them, they've lived in enough different places - New York, England, Texas, and Rhode Island - to appreciate downtown Greenville real estate for having so much to offer without the headaches of a major metropolis.
"We were tired of Atlanta, tired of commutes," she said. "We wanted a small city."
Although the Greenville real estate downtown business district itself is relatively small, the neighborhoods associated with it sprawl all the way from Augusta Road to Rutherford, from Stone Avenue to Pendleton Street.
And the Greenville downtown neighborhoods are as diverse as they are vibrant. From the Hampton-Pinckney Historic District to stately Crescent Avenue to North Main Street - from Victorian to Southern plantation-style to English Tudor there's enough architectural variety in the Greenville real estate to appeal to the wide range of people who live there.
Old Greenville real estate and neighborhoods are rapidly filling with newcomers, like the Honohans, with young professionals living side-by-side with natives, toddlers on the same street with grandparents.
"I love it because it's a historic district and there are so many young families down here with small kids," said Adrienne Logel, 31, who moved to Pinckney Street from Powdersville with her husband, Toby and their two young children, two months ago.
"The houses are great. The neighborhood's great. I can walk downtown with my children for dinner, and we walk downtown to the farmer's market on Saturday. It's awesome," she said. "It's a great way of life."
If old Greenville real estate isn't to your liking, there are plenty of new ones going up although they usually blend in so much with the architectural styles surrounding them that they seem like they've been there all along.
A row of new townhouses going up in downtown Greenville SC just across from Hampton-Pinckney is one such example. Construction is continuing on others.
Poinsett Place, next to the Peace Center for the Performing Arts, is on schedule to be complete by mid-summer, with all but nine of its 83 units already sold and half its 19,000 square feet of commercial space rented, according to developer Bo Aughtry.
For young professionals looking for something a little less pricey, PHC Communities in downtown Greenville is building two projects in the North Main Street area. The Vineyards at North Main and Oakhurst Villas are also Greenville SC real estate that is available.
The Vineyards is a "traditional neighborhood design" development, with 15 patio Greenville SC homes for sale on small lots facing a park-like common area, with an open recreational field nearby, said Ron Vergnolle, managing member of PHC Communities.
Prices in that Greenville SC development range from $200,000 to $250,000. But the adjacent villas a 22-unit project designed to look like "North Main Street houses," with one Greenville SC condo stacked on top of another start at $95,000.
The Greenville real estate homes and villas, which replaced a row of old, dilapidated houses, were auctioned in June. "We sold them all in about 45 minutes," Vergnolle said.
On the other side of downtown Greenville SC homes are a totally different type of multi-family dwelling a former textile mill that's being converted into Greenville SC homes, and lofts.
The Lofts at Mills Mill features such amenities as a swimming pool and sun deck, fitness center, clubroom with catering kitchen and individual on-site storage areas. Units have 14-foot ceilings with heart pine beams, exposed brick walls and 5-by-10-foot cathedral windows.
The downtown area also has apartments for modest rents. One such Greenville SC home complex is Summit Place off Chick Springs Road.
"We've got good schools. We've got about six different churches up here. We can walk to the Bi-Lo Center in about 15 minutes," said James Elmore, the owner. "We have all these trees and shade and peace and quiet."
Mostly, though, he says the place has good people.
Marvelle Hawkins, 32, is one of the residents at Greenville SC Summit Place. It suits her and her four children fine.
"It's home," she said. "It's a good neighborhood. There's a school right up the street, playgrounds."
James Edwards, 26, said he came to Greenville SC to get away from a high-crime neighborhood in Charlotte and seek a new life.
"It's a nice neighborhood," he said. "It's quiet."
Then there are those, such as Merrill "Peetie" Carlson, 69, of Earle Street, who have watched the transformation of Greenville real estate through the years and have a deeper perspective on how the city of Greenville SC, came to be what it is today.
A Greenville SC art therapist, former Greenville SC school teacher, former owner of a Greenville SC backpacking shop, Carlson mourns the loss of trees in the construction of Interstate 385 and the Western Corridor in Greenville SC, but she's happy about the changes to downtown Greenville South Carolina.
"As a child, we had those trolley buses, and the streets were wide," she said, "but they weren't beautiful like they are now."
She lived in Florida for 20 years but came back to Greenville SC a quarter century ago to live in an 80-year-old Southern traditional house on Earle Street in Greenville SC, a block away from her childhood Greenville SC home.
"I treasure this neighborhood," she said. "For me, it's home."
By Ron Barnett GREENVILLE NEWS STAFF WRITER
Dunean Mills Greenville real estate and neighborhood
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