Tag: Placemaking

  • October 28, 2022
    Compare walkable neighborhoods in Charleston with local insight, maps, live listings, and practical tradeoffs for buyers choosing where to live.
  • A wooden fence with the signage "West Ashley Greenway" with wild green shrubbery in the background.

    March 25, 2022
    The West Ashley Greenway accommodates walkers, joggers, cyclists, and naturalists through more than ten miles of linear park, connecting a…
  • Outdoor Summerville Farmers Market entrance with an arch made of green, orange, pink, and purple balloons over a driveway lined with vendor tents and shoppers.

    March 9, 2022
    Explore recurring farmers markets around Charleston, SC, organized by area with current schedules, locations, map links, and official market information.
  • An artist's rendering of the proposed Gateway Walk Park and Liberty Center, a bricked walkway with outdoor cafe and people walking among many native plantings and trees

    September 1, 2021
    See how a 2021 proposal to activate Liberty Center at 151 Meeting Street evolved into American Gardens and a new…
  • The Goose Creek Reservoir at sunset

    June 8, 2021
    A look at Goose Creek’s walkability plan, updated with Central Creek, Red Bank, zoning changes, and what buyers should watch…
  • April 22, 2020
    How Coleman Boulevard became Mount Pleasant’s main-street experiment, from Old Village history to streetscaping, stormwater, pushback, and suburban retrofit.
  • A rendering of The Montford Building in Charleston

    October 23, 2019
    A look at a proposed wedge-shaped hotel for Charleston’s Upper Peninsula, inspired by the flatiron building tradition in American cities.
  • People enjoying Second Sunday on King Street

    March 7, 2018
    Would it be feasible and beneficial to extend the pedestrian-first concept of Second Sunday to every day?
  • June 28, 2016
    A look at the proposed Lorelei development on Laurel Island, comparing Atlantic Station with Charleston’s scale, architecture and waterfront.
  • Brick and arched-window facade of the Cigar Factory with exposed exterior steel frames, partial scaffolding, and parked vans below.

    May 12, 2014
    A 2014 look at Charleston’s Cigar Factory, from textile mill history to its planned retail office revival, with interior photos.
  • A group of people ceremoniously planting a tree, including well dressed business people and children dressed in green.

    December 6, 2013
    The city of Charleston has embarked on an ambitious project known as the 10,000 Trees Initiative. Spearheaded by the Charleston…
  • An artist rendering of the proposed Lowcountry Lowline, showing a paved path beneath a freeway overpass bordered by plantings and lights, with a man on a bicycle with a dog

    November 10, 2013
    A transformative project through the center of the peninsula of Downtown Charleston is in the works – a linear park…