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Greenville’s Planning Commission will consider at its August meeting a land development plan for Tindal Park.
Earlier this year, some Tindal Avenue residents expressed concern that the character of the neighborhood off Church Street would be changed if the school district sold the land to a developer.
The property, included in the city’s Haynie-Sirrine Master Plan, once the site of Donaldson Elementary School, where Albert Einstein once visited to speak to fifth graders. The school was closed in 1971 and the school district has leased the land to the City of Greenville for a park for decades.
After residents’ attempt to get the school district not to sell the land failed, some tried unsuccessfully to have the neighborhood designated as an historic overlay preservation district, which could have provided additional restrictions. The Haynie-Sirrine plan allows only single-family homes or duplexes no more than 2.5 stories tall.
The Croft Co. plan filed with the city calls for 16 homes and a pocket park on the 2.7-acre site.
“This development will fit in architecturally with the neighborhood,” Greenville developer Tom Croft said.
The homes would range from 2,800 to 3,500 square feet and sell for $600,000 to $800,000, he said.
The planning commission will hold a public hearing on the project at its meeting on Aug. 18 at 4 p.m. in Council Chambers on the 10th floor of City Hall.
