County Councilman Roger Nutt grew up on the west side of Spartanburg County and recalls a time when Highway 290 was just a two-lane highway.
“I saw it pass Array . . . on a small two-lane road with trees facing all the way and large houses on both sides and farms,” Nutt said. “And where is he now. It’s just a progression from where we are. “
Now, the direction along the aisle from Duncan Route 290 to Moore is a little different: it’s a four-lane road lined with grocery stores, restaurants, neighborhoods, apartments and mass-produced corporations employing thousands of people.
“Not only has (development) not slowed down, but it has peaked in a decade,” Nutt said.
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Nutt and OneSpartanburg, Inc. Economic Development Leaders attribute the order for more residential and advertising real estate along the way to production corporations in Spartanburg, school districts and the Greenville neighborhood.
Along Highway 290 are corporations such as Kobelco Construction Machinery USA; Magna Seating, BMW leader in neighboring Greer; Since early 2021, Keurig Dr Pepper will open its doors to its largest roasting and production facility in Tyger River Industrial Park.
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FlexQube, a Swedish company that manufactures handling carts and shelves used by automakers, will also move to spartanburg Community College’s Tyger River campus in Duncan.
It is a “strategic” location for FlexQube to increase its visitor base and provide greater service to visitors, CEO Anders Fogelberg said in a statement through the Spartanburg Region Chamber of Commerce.
“Spartanburg is a wonderful position to place us with a lot of consumers nearby,” he said in an email. Future prospective expansion and I look forward to being a horny employer.
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Tens of thousands of other people’s paintings in production in the north of the state, and thousands of paintings near Highway 290, according to Kyle Sox, vice president of commercial progression at OneSpartanburg, Inc.
“The north state’s commercial and production cluster/I-85 is more like an ecosystem in terms of production sites and labor,” Sox said. “Highway 290 seems to be a very component of this ecosystem, but taking it out of the broader context is first, impractical, and secondly unsractical (of all production in the north of the state). “
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To put things in perspective, BMW employs another 11,000 people on its 7 million-square-foot campus near Greer, according to its website. On Highway 290 alone, there are more than a hundred commercial facilities, some of which supply automotive equipment to the German manufacturer.
Keurig Dr Pepper plans to rent to 500 other people at his Spartanburg plant, and used the Spark Center on Spartanburg Community College’s Tyger River campus while building its permanent facility.
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The Spark Center is a 363,000-square-foot area that serves as a warehouse and a company can use the area for the loose in exchange for its commitment to building a permanent facility in Spartanburg.
“Keurig Dr Pepper stayed there free of charge for the company for a year while they built their facilities, won equipment, hired people, trained people,” Sox said. route 290 in Spartanburg County. “
Katherine O’Neill, Director of Economic Development at OneSpartanburg, Inc. , said Spartanburg’s industry diversification and deep roots in production allowed it to continue to grow the county, even during a global pandemic.
“So, if you look at BMW, they simply suspended their production (due to COVID-19), they’ve already gone back to where they were in terms of Array production. . . since March,” O’Neill said. (Spartanburg) was resilient to recession and now resistant to a global pandemic. “
The proximity of Highway 290 to Highways 26 and 85 and greer’s inner harbor also allowed production to continue the pandemic smoothly, O’Neill said.
“Think about what (we) probably did with the pandemic when ordering online,” O’Neill said. “So logistics and distribution, food and drink are working great in Spartanburg because of the interstate formula and the inland harbor. “
As more and more people paint in those production companies, more and more people are moving to live closer to the paintings. While other people think that having a residential area along a busy highway is rare, for Councilor Nutt it makes sense. .
“If you see a car crashing 290 and you think, “boy, I’m sure there are people,” all those cars came from somewhere and came from a house,” Nutt said.
“Then, if everyone comes from a space or goes into a space, then what better position to have a space than on that road, to have all that traffic scattered of 290, then take all the other roads and have the other messy ones as well. “
Keller Williams, a genuine real estate agent, Pam Harrison, works in Spartanburg County and said that, like the rest of the county, things along Route 290 were moving fast.
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Harrison indexed monday a space near Highway 290 that was under contract in hours and a plot of land last week that had several offers and sold above the sale price, he said.
“Many other people like District Five (school district). They like comfort between Greenville and Spartanburg,” Harrison said.
Houses along Corridor 290 are in Spartanburg’s five or 6 school districts with well-known giant schools.
“Dorman is a big component of growth, I mean, it’s the largest high school in Scomponentanburg County,” Sox said.
And the domain simply helps to keep growing: the roadside is dotted with symptoms of “available,” “rented,” and “sold” for structures that corporations are building lately.
“It just helps keep going up,” he said Nutt. Es just one position to live on. “
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