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So Exactly Who Is Moving Downtown?

Posted by: Christian Peralta Madera
Thanks to: A. Lamar Calloway
12 September 2006 - 8:00am

South Carolina's capital city, Columbia, is experiencing an unprecedented downtown condo boom. A wide array of people are readily snatching them up, from baby boomers to young professionals.

"The building boom in downtown Columbia is nothing less than a wholesale remaking of the city center — creating a new urban core of homes with river views, Viking kitchens and short walks to work, the restaurant or the art museum.

About 4,000 units have been built or announced recently, and that doesn’t include 3,000 more expected to spring up around USC's Innovista research district.

So who’s going to buy them?

Probably your neighbors."

Full Story: The New Downtowners
Source: The State, May 21, 2006
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But what can planners do to support the kind of connections between people I just described? One idea is promoting mixed-use places where there are simply more opportunities for people to run into each other and connect.
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