The short drive between South Windemere Shopping Center and the Ashley River bridge is the saddest little strip of poorly maintained properties. Both sides of the road are zoned for single family residences only. I believe all of these houses are rental properties, which is easy to understand since buying a house on such a busy route is not very desirable. If these two sides of the road were zoned commercial and entrepreneurs were encouraged to open tea houses, toy stores, clothing stores, etc the neighborhood would definitely start to look a lot better since most businesses invest creative thought, time and money to make their places look desirable to visit. With the existing sidewalks one can easily imagine the foot traffic between the South Windemere Shopping Center and the apartments/conos that are going up at the Albemarle intersection. If the Citadel Mall’s reconditioning is supposed to be the West Ashley Downtown, this could be the West Ashley Village. If that’s too confusing, then call it South Windemere Village. And while you’re at it….. take the parking along Windemere Blvd and make it a city street so that userous fees for parking overnight can be eliminated!
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And maybe put a parking lot at the end of the 'pie slice' nearest the bridge to generally keep traffic flowing through there - instead of expecting each little business to have cars pulling in and out.
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