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#### that sucks. One of the few free parking spots left for football games.***
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Apr 3, 2024, 2:26 PM
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110%er [6462]
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Re: New student development coming to downtown Clemson
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Apr 3, 2024, 2:40 PM
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Local Clemson people are fighting this tooth and nail. The town council is like every other town council with the developers going to them and offering them sweet deals. “Scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours”.
Clemson is growing too fast for the infrastructure and traffic issues to be addressed. But the developers and politicians see it as build now and address the other problems later.
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110%er [6946]
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This. Developers and political officials in bed with
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Apr 3, 2024, 2:48 PM
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one another to rape every piece of land they can get their greedy hands on. Sad really. The university and the town are tunnel visioned on growing numbers/$$$. They will regret it one day!
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Re: This. Developers and political officials in bed with
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Apr 3, 2024, 3:15 PM
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Capitalism comes with the good and the bad.
Can't make money off of green space / free parking.
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Re: This. Developers and political officials in bed with
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Apr 3, 2024, 4:46 PM
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You can either have "smart development" or "dumb development".
Capitalism favors neither.
When you build too fast and don't have the necessary infrastructure it creates permanent problems. That's dumb development.
Nothing says "I'm not very smart" quite like approving high-density housing in areas without the infrastructure to handle it.
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Is that the little park...
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Apr 3, 2024, 2:44 PM
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on the cut-through road between College Avenue and Highway 123?
Not sure that area back up in there is large enough for a housing complex unless they totally eliminate the park.
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The greedy bas***ds in quaint Davidson (College) NC
Apr 3, 2024, 3:23 PM
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did the same thing basically what with couple commercial buildings on main street being too big for the area, jamming new apts & shopping strips and then having to build two of the European drive-around circles to cope with the increased growth & traffic.
Saying, the old title of “Village” for quaint Davidson is no longer a fact!
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Re: Is that the little park...
Apr 3, 2024, 4:25 PM
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It is the cut through. Not sure of the proposed site boundaries.
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Re: New student development coming to downtown Clemson
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Apr 3, 2024, 3:22 PM
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2 older satellite fraternity houses are on that street and the students living in them have moved out and the whole street is now abandoned
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little old Clemson
Apr 3, 2024, 3:31 PM
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Not any more. My daughter is a junior and no matter when I up to see her is seems like I get stuck in a traffic jam. For someone who started visiting Clemson in the early 70s really it is a shocking change. I understand change happens but the infrastructure has nowhere near kept up with the growth and trying to jam now 26,000 students and all the other employees etc in a pretty small area is just a nightmare.
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A few years ago we thought we wanted to live in Clemson
Apr 4, 2024, 10:08 AM
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After a few visits, we decided that “near Clemson” was preferable. Moving around in Clemson is horrible, and will only get worse.
We actually made an offer on a house near Sardi’s, but got outbid in the COVID buying craze. Bought instead out in the country, and have thanked our lucky stars ever since. We are about 30 miles away, but I still wonder if our 35 minute drive from here might take less time to get to campus than it might have taken from in town.
And part of our reason for moving in the first place was to escape the crowds and traffic of Summerville/Charleston.
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Yuck. Is it going to look like a prison like "centre on college"
Apr 3, 2024, 3:32 PM
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all the student housing projects look like crap.
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Is this the one the school President's brother in law was in on?***
Apr 3, 2024, 3:54 PM
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Re: Is this the one the school President's brother in law was in on?***
Apr 4, 2024, 8:51 AM
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Yes. Not a good look.
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Re: Is this the one the school President's brother in law was in on?***
Apr 4, 2024, 10:03 AM
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Yep, all the local politicians and inside people, like the president’s in law, will profit while locals gets screwed with more traffic and urbanization of the area. Clements always looking for ways to set his family up….
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Re: New student development coming to downtown Clemson
Apr 3, 2024, 4:28 PM
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Project obviously has positives and negatives. I get why the local people wouldn't want it because of the infrastructure and traffic. At the same time, the school is growing so fast it needs more housing. I also wouldn't mind a new hotel and restaurant.
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Re: New student development coming to downtown Clemson
Apr 3, 2024, 4:48 PM
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Look at Myrtle Beach if you want to see what developers and real estate agents can do. No offense to you Spud.
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Re: New student development coming to downtown Clemson
Apr 3, 2024, 5:01 PM
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They are going to mess up Clemson if they keep it up.
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Each time a new one of these goes up
Apr 3, 2024, 5:09 PM
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It inherently lessens the value of the other ones. The ones that are no longer the hot new ones on the block
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Re: Each time a new one of these goes up
Apr 3, 2024, 5:49 PM
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Town and Gown…… what a joke. Should be all Gown…screw the Town.
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Re: Each time a new one of these goes up
Apr 4, 2024, 9:24 AM
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Yes, building more housing exerts downward pressure on housing prices. That's not really a bad thing unless you own one of the other buildings. I'm not familiar with this particular project, but I do like the idea of students being able to live closer to campus and not having to commute in or own a car at all if they don't want one.
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Re: New student development coming to downtown Clemson
Apr 4, 2024, 7:13 AM
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I'm in favor. Clemson needs more affordable student housing within walking distance to campus. If they don't build vertical near campus, it will only add more cars on the roads. Walkers or drivers? And the university itself (like its peers) seems to be getting out of the housing business.
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Re: New student development coming to downtown Clemson
Apr 4, 2024, 10:53 AM
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These kids go “what’s walking?”
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Legend [16603]
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This is the one tied to President Clements family members, right?
Apr 4, 2024, 10:01 AM
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It is inevitable that developments like this will come. Wish the University had more on campus housing available, but it seems like most schools are getting out of the landlord business.
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