{"id":305764,"date":"2026-10-13T14:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T14:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305764\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T14:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T14:18:07","slug":"greenville-council-advances-10m-downtown-conference-center-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305764\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenville council advances $10M downtown conference center plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) &#8211; 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/2026\/09\/23\/greenville-unveils-first-detailed-plans-500-million-falls-park-conference-district\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.foxcarolina.com\/2026\/09\/23\/greenville-unveils-first-detailed-plans-500-million-falls-park-conference-district\/\">Downtown Greenville Conference Center project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The project will add a 100,000-square-foot conference center, a luxury hotel and other amenities to the downtown area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Council member John DeWorken said the project will help bring more people to the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s going to be world-class. It\u2019s going to be an amazing project, but it also does other things and just brings people to Greenville for conferences,\u201d DeWorken said. \u201cWhat 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\u2019s an opportunity for us to make sure that we\u2019re supporting our local mom-and-pops along Main Street and around downtown by bringing folks in for conferences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The first reading passed unanimously. A second reading will take place at a later time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">MORE NEWS:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\">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>Copyright 2026 WHNS. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREENVILLE, S.C. (FOX Carolina) &#8211; The Greenville City Council held a first reading Monday on a measure to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[125477,7605,74565,74564,26152,125478,139,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-305764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-downtown-greenville-conference-center-project","tag-first-reading","tag-fox-carolina","tag-fox-carolina-news","tag-greenville-city-council","tag-john-deworken","tag-news","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305764","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=305764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}