{"id":165500,"date":"2026-04-14T15:33:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165500\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:33:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T15:33:07","slug":"greenville-approves-first-reading-for-26m-conference-center-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165500\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenville approves first reading for $26M conference center funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) &#8211; Greenville City Council took its first steps in approving funding for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/2026\/03\/10\/greenville-city-council-approves-key-steps-conference-center-district\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/2026\/03\/10\/greenville-city-council-approves-key-steps-conference-center-district\/\">conference center district<\/a> near downtown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The conference center district is expected to include a luxury hotel, office space, multi-family housing and a partially underground parking garage with about 1,400 parking spaces. Council previously voted to allow the city manager to buy the property, currently a parking lot, where leaders say construction could begin in less than a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Leaders on Monday unanimously approved the first reading of an ordinance that would allocate $26 million in state funds for the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">More readings will follow before the funds are officials placed towards the project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Feel more informed, prepared, and connected with FOX Carolina. For more free content like this, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/page\/apps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/page\/apps\/\">download our apps<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WHNS. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) &#8211; Greenville City Council took its first steps in approving funding for a conference&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165501,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[74560,7605,74562,74565,74564,74561,3422,26152,74563,139,128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-165500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-conference-center-district","9":"tag-first-reading","10":"tag-first-reading-for-funding-allocation","11":"tag-fox-carolina","12":"tag-fox-carolina-news","13":"tag-funding-for-greenville-conference-center-district","14":"tag-greenville","15":"tag-greenville-city-council","16":"tag-greenville-city-council-first-reading","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-reading-city","19":"tag-reading-city-headlines","20":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}