Wednesday, March 9, 2016

TD Bank to add 300 jobs in Greenville

Fast growing TD Bank is adding 300 jobs to their call center along I-85 in Greenville.  That is an addition to the 250 auto finance jobs announced last year.  With these additions, TD will have about 1400 employees at the center.  TD acquired financially troubled South Financial in 2010 and has apparently gone very well for them. 

The call center sits in the Millennium Campus which is central to Greenville, Mauldin, and the shopping hub of Woodruff Road.  Residential sales along this corridor has been robust as homeowners attempt to stay in closer to the city center.   The nearby Verdae Development has a lot of new homes being built, but is on a rare tract of land that is undeveloped.  A spur to the popular Swamp Rabbit walking and biking trail is also set to extend to the Millennium Campus.  Lots of action coming to this area of town.

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Tindal Park near Downtown Greenville to be Sold

Tindal Park has been a nice, secret little park, tucked into a neighborhood near Bob Jones University between Wade Hampton Blvd and E. North Street.  It actually belongs to the Greenville County School District and has been rented to the City of Greenville for several decades since an old school was closed in 1971.  The School Board recently announced that it is selling the 2.81 parcel to New Focus Builders LLC for $1.5 million with a 6 month due diligence period in place.  New Focus is registered to Joseph Satterfield who is a partner of Quinn Satterfield Builders - they have been very active in re-development of areas close to Greenville as well as the Verdae development off Laurens Road.

The park is located near the Overbrook Historic area off E. North Street and the Earle Street Historic are in North Main.  Both areas are coveted residential home areas of Greenville for their proximity to downtown Greenville.  The nearby subdivisions of Stone Lake and Delwood have been very active in residential sales over the past few years, following the re-development push into the North Main area.  Since the demand for residential housing close to downtown Greenville is very high, I expect anything built at the park to be high-end in nature with fairly high density single family homes.  Of course, a variance to zoning could be granted to achieve higher density structures.