This week’s blog post features another in our series of interviews with Charleston’s movers and shakers who are working to make Charleston more livable for everyone. We celebrate Kurt Cavanaugh’s one-year anniversary as the first full-time Executive Director of Charleston Moves, and applaud his efforts at getting the message out to make our roads, sidewalks, and […]
THE PROJECT Around the country, enclosed malls are being redesigned, rebuilt and revitalized. This isn’t anything new: dying malls from Colorado to Virginia to Florida have been redeveloped into new, dynamic places. The Great Recession caused a temporary stop on the construction of enclosed malls, and in 2007, for the first time in 50 years, […]
We applaud the Ports Authority for their $5 million investment to be used for the purchase and protection of land along the Cooper River watershed to mitigate the potential effects of deepening Charleston Harbor. The agreement, made earlier this year, was reached in collaboration with the Lowcountry Open Land Trust, the Coastal Conservation League, and the Southern Environmental Law […]
THE PROJECT The Mission of the Lowcountry Maritime Society is to help facilitate and promote the connection of the coastal South Carolina community with our natural marine environment. We believe that our natural marine environment in the Lowcountry is stunningly beautiful and full of life. Our towns, cities, and people have developed to where they […]
If You Were Mayor awoke on Thursday morning to the crushing news that a lone gunman entered the historic ‘Mother’ Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, and sat with the congregants for an hour of their Wednesday evening prayer service before he raised a gun and killed nine individuals, including the pastor. The evidence […]
THE PROJECT Over the past 37 years, Mayor Joseph P. Riley, Jr. has undertaken a major expansion of the public realm in downtown Charleston. Among those projects is Waterfront Park, a public space that changed life in downtown Charleston for residents and visitors alike. In that same spirit of expanding the public realm, we propose […]
THE PROJECT 1. Connect Residents to Places They Go Often With New Roads, Sidewalks, and Bikeways. Connect neighborhoods to schools and local businesses, by building or improving local roads, as well as constructing 50 miles of sidewalks, pathways, and bikeways by 2018. That way, residents will not need to go on major highways to travel […]
If you missed it, Tuesday’s Arts Matter Mayoral Summit was attended by approximately 200 people. The room buzzed with arts leaders from many area arts organizations as well as a fair number of practicing artists. As the event unfolded, it was apparent that the overwhelming response to the role of arts and culture in Charleston […]
THE PROJECT OR INITIATIVE For 20 years, as gridlock and traffic congestion have taken over the Lowcountry and made access to our beaches harder, local Government has struggled to plan a regional rapid transit system. There have been four major planning efforts which have gone nowhere. There are shelves of reports and diagrams about projects […]
WCIV-TV | ABC News 4 – Charleston News, Sports, Weather All six of the candidates who have publicly declared they are in the running to be Charleston’s next mayor have confirmed they will attend the Charleston Regional Alliance for the Arts 2015 Arts Matter Mayoral Summit on June 9 from 9-11 a.m. at Woolfe Street […]