A vibrant turnaround for a long-neglected Charleston suburb
Eyeing the neighbourhood's potential, a property developer and his partners spent more than US$70 million to create two architecturally striking office park developments there
Charleston, SC
ON Sunday mornings about a decade ago, shortly after he moved here, Stephen Zoukis used to ride his bike around a ramshackle neighbourhood a couple of miles north of the city's celebrated historic district and wonder why no one had built anything of note there.
The neighbourhood, known in the 1850s as Cool Blow Village and now as the Upper Peninsula, was dotted with small houses, warehouses and metal sheds; had only a few sidewalks; and was infused with an air of neglect. Even with easy access from an interstate ramp, the neighbourhood "lacked an economic pulse", he said.
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