| This year brought many changes to the Greenville | | | | endowed, west side community center, redevelopment |
| area with the City's emphasis on revitalization | | | | of the commercial corridor along Pleasantburg Drive, |
| downtown and subsequent projects in the outer | | | | and renovation of the Palmetto Expo Center. Four |
| edges of the city. In 2003, the National Trust for | | | | large projects along I-85 are taking shape as well: The |
| Historic Preservation gave Greenville its Great | | | | International Center for Automotive Research and |
| American Main Street award, leading some real estate | | | | next to it the Millennium Campus, the Verdae project |
| developers to call it "a model for urban | | | | and the Global Trade Center. |
| redevelopment". Acclaim went to the emphasis put on | | | | In residential real estate investments, a lot of national |
| parking and streetscapes which, while not glamorous, | | | | attention has been generated over the real estate |
| still drive the attractiveness. This year the Hayden | | | | bubble bursting or slipping back into just an expansion. |
| Medal for outstanding achievement in bridge | | | | This may be true of some sizzling metropolitan areas, |
| engineering was awarded to the West End's Liberty | | | | but Greenville has been blessed with consistent and |
| Bridge by the Engineers Society of Western | | | | stable growth, the overall result being a more |
| Pennsylvania. | | | | predictable appreciation rate of homes. This trend is |
| Outside the downtown area, we can expect to see | | | | expected to continue as our area grows in the |
| progress on the Salvation Army's Joan Kroc | | | | upcoming years. |