Greenville County Planning Commission

ECONOMICS GOALS, OBJECTIVES, AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Goal - To promote Greenville County's national prominence as the dynamic economic center of the Upstate region.

Objectives:

  1. To ensure that the economic health and vitality of Greenville County will be sustainable

  2. To maintain Greenville County's role as a regional economic center

  3. To encourage, aid, and support the existing businesses and local entrepreneurs

  4. To actively recruit large national and international businesses

  5. To encourage small business development, particularly for neighborhood commercial services, to enhance employment opportunities

  6. To foster growth in the tourism sector, encouraging use of our natural resources to attract people to Greenville County

  7. To develop programs and strategies for increased economic development in minority neighborhoods

  8. To encourage the revitalization of older and/or underdeveloped commercial areas, such as Poinsett Highway, White Horse Road, and Wade Hampton Boulevard

  9. To encourage the location and expansion of industries which benefit the environment, (i.e. technological, financial, and service-oriented industries)

  10. To direct economic growth in areas appropriate for development and discourage it in environmentally-sensitive areas

Goal - To provide areas suitable for commercial development.

Objectives:

  1. To encourage viable alternatives to strip commercial development along major transportation routes

  2. To identify strategically located areas for the development of neighborhood commercial establishments

  3. To provide areas suitable for the development of regional and community commercial facilities

Recommendations:

  1. Promote cluster commercial development at major intersections and along major arterials

  2. Discourage strip commercial development along residential corridors

  3. Encourage commercial and industrial development activities to locate in areas where there is a full range of public facilities, services, and infrastructure to support business development


Cherrydale Point will be a 360,000 square-foot retail and entertainment
 complex on the former Stone Manufacturing site.

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