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Nearly three hours in to the public hearing, a request for pizza and a martini came from two panelists on the City of Greenville Design Review Board Urban Panel.

The Sept. 6 public meeting of the city of Greenville Design Review Board Urban Panel resulted in approvals for all presented projects and positive...

The majority of the nearly two-and-a-half-hour meeting was spent on the other three items – the proposed J.McLaughlin storefront, design of the new River Street Sweets storefront, and a request for an unreasonable hardship exemption for the brick office building at 200 E. Camperdown Way.

Five items of new business, two items for advice and comments, and one item for informal review put the meeting at just less than two and a half hours.

The one item of old business held over from April and the two new items on the docket garnered a fair amount of discussion but all received approval with conditions by the panel.

The TD Self Storage proposed for 101 O’Neal St. and new monument signage for the Shops at Greenridge were approved without condition, while the AC Hotel and BB&T Building have changes to make.

The March 1 public hearing of the City of Greenville Design Review Board Urban Panel revealed a few new projects in the works for some transitional areas of the city, while other known projects, such as the Wells Fargo signage and proposed renovations of three North Main Street storefronts, received approval.

The first City of Greenville Design Review Board Urban Panel public hearing of the new year held Jan. 4 was relatively brief, with mixed results for the two...

The City Hall chambers were decked out in greenery and red poinsettias for the Dec. 7 City of Greenville Design Review Board Urban Panel...

The Design Review Board Urban panel overwhelmingly approved a Certificate of Appropriateness for the return to the historic design of 12 S. Main St.

When the Nelson Mullins law firm opened an office in Greenville, downtown was deserted. Save for the first block where the Hyatt was located, Main Street was dotted by empty storefronts. The Peace Center was merely an idea, and Falls Park didn’t exist.

Long before the name Husk Greenville was anything more than wishful thinking, the Charleston-based restaurant’s award-winning chef, Sean Brock, began impacting the Upstate’s burgeoning restaurant scene.

Topgolf is a golf entertainment center with competitive golfing games for people of all ages and skill levels.

Certificates of appropriateness were approved for Homewood Suites by Hilton, Camperdown Plaza, the Citisculpt mixed-use development at the Agfa Healthcare site, and the Famous Toastery signage at Poinsett Plaza.

For more than 45 years, the Greenville entrepreneur has fueled his company’s growth with a formula that includes hard work, perseverance, wise decisions, and one other unique quality.