GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) – The Greenville City Council held a first reading Monday on a measure to appropriate more than $10 million from the parking fund to support the Downtown Greenville Conference Center project.
The project will add a 100,000-square-foot conference center, a luxury hotel and other amenities to the downtown area.
Council member John DeWorken said the project will help bring more people to the city.
“It’s going to be world-class. It’s going to be an amazing project, but it also does other things and just brings people to Greenville for conferences,” DeWorken said. “What it also does is, if you want to keep Main Street locally owned, locally owned restaurants, locally owned retail, then you need to be able to have people shop there and eat there. So it’s an opportunity for us to make sure that we’re supporting our local mom-and-pops along Main Street and around downtown by bringing folks in for conferences.”
The first reading passed unanimously. A second reading will take place at a later time.
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