Graduate program one of nine in the country
With all of its development in recent years, downtown Greenville is the perfect “living lab” for students in Clemson University’s graduate program in real estate development.
The program is relocating from Clemson’s campus to Clemson at the Falls – formerly known as the Bowater Building – in downtown Greenville.
The program will eventually be housed in ONE, a $100 million mixed-use development at the corner of Main and Washington streets in the heart of downtown.
All of Clemson at the Falls’ business school components – the MBA program, the Small Business Development Center and the Spiro Institute – will move to ONE in early 2014.
“The new location provides a more urban and dynamic setting for our students, creating a ‘living lab’ due to the amount of significant real estate development currently underway in Greenville,” said Robert Benedict, director of the Master in Real Estate Development program.
He said the move would allow the program to continue to grow and create greater local, regional and national awareness of it.
No more than 20 students are accepted into the program each year.
The program combines several disciplines: business administration, finance, law, city and regional planning, architecture, and construction science and management.
Greenville developers Phil Hughes and Bogue Wallin are adjunct faculty members for the real estate development program. Hughes has developed several properties in downtown Greenville, while Wallin has proposed a mixed-use development on Stone Avenue in the North Main area, one of the gateways to Greenville’s downtown.
