March 14, 2013, 4:10 pm In the next few months, City of Rock Hill staff will start reviewing qualifications from a pool of 70 developers as to who might be tasked with turning the city’s textile corridor into a new multi-use plan known as Knowledge Park. City Council reviewed the latest renderings of what parts of the project might look [...] Read More
February 25, 2013, 7:54 pm The public-private partnership to develop the area between downtown Rock Hill and Winthrop University into a Knowledge Park is moving along full speed ahead. Requests for qualifications have been sent and Rock Hill Economic Development Director Stephen Turner says they were sent to developers the Economic Development Corporation has come to know over the past [...] Read More
February 11, 2013, 7:47 pm A $2.6 million utility and road improvement project in Rock Hill’s Textile Corridor received another $360,000 from the one of the city’s largest employers. Rock Hill-based Comporium Communications handed city officials the second of three installments of a $1 million payment to improve utilities around the former Rock Hill Printing and Finishing site adjacent to [...] Read More
February 5, 2013, 3:02 pm Rock Hill’s newest downtown venue officially opened its doors Tuesday. The Old Town Market Hall sits on what was not long ago a blighted property that had seen its better days as a general store, dry cleaners and youth center. Rock Hill Mayor Doug Echols says the project was a public-private partnership where the city [...] Read More
January 28, 2013, 8:47 pm With a joint project between the City of Rock Hill and Comporium Communications soon getting underway on a new office building downtown, city planners gave city council a closer look at what’s to come from a parking standpoint of the Downtown East project. With a park set to be built on what is now the [...] Read More
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