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Mauldin picks developer for City Center

Staff Report //November 13, 2019//

Mauldin picks developer for City Center

Staff Report //November 13, 2019//

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The Mauldin City Council is moving forward with a project to create the kind of downtown city leaders have been hoping to develop for years.

After two readings, the council voted Oct. 30 to sell land to Michigan-based Contour Development Group, who will move forward with Mauldin’s City Center project.

“This is an important first step in achieving the city’s goal of creating a downtown that is anticipated to deliver a mix of development that serves the commercial, office, hospitality, cultural and residential needs of our growing community,” Mayor Dennis Raines said in a news release. “The City Center concept has been a vision for the city’s leadership that we have been diligently working to bring to fruition.”

The selection is contingent upon the sale of about 7.5 acres of city-owned property for $3.25 million and that sale is expected to close at the end of November, according to Dustin Tenney, retail leasing and investment sales specialist for SVN Blackstream. Contour Development, SeamonWhiteside and SVN Blackstream are the development team for the project.

The developers expect to break ground early next year, Tenney said.

The city has estimated the value of the development project at $250 million to $300 million.

“City Center has been a long-standing vision for City Council and more importantly, the residents we serve, and we are excited about working together to finally make our new live-work-shop-dine-play downtown a reality,” Councilman Taft Matney, chairman of the city’s Economic Planning and Development Committee, said in the news release.

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