City of Greenville, South Carolina Government

Making a positive impact! 🙌🏽 Greenville Police Department School Resource Officers are back in class, making connections, securing facilities and keeping staff and students safe.

Meet three of our newest SROs and hear why they love their assignment.

GREEN Charter Middle School | Legacy Charter School | West Greenville School

"Transformative. Generational impact. Beneficial to the entire city." Those are the sentiments of residents, expressed to City Council tonight, as councilors approved the purchase of more than six acres of land along Church Street in Haynie-Sirrine. The vacant parcels will be preserved for open space, neighborhood protection and future affordable housing opportunities.
➡️ https://greenvillesc.gov/CivicAlerts.aspx?AID=3740

Standing tall. 🇺🇸
If you've been to Unity Park recently you've seen the structural core of the Thomas and Vivian A. Wong Honor Tower rising 120 feet in the air, in between Meadowbrook Green and the future Mayberry Park baseball field.
The tower's steel insides were delivered in two pieces this week and welded together in midair. Construction is expected to be complete around this time next year!

SC STEEL LLC | Harper General Contractors | City of Greenville Parks & Recreation

Taking the STAGES. 🎭🎶 The South Carolina New Play Festival is curtains up in for year 3, with more variety, more shows, more venues and more big stars. The festival, started by husband and wife Broadway producers with dozens of credits each, draws casting agents and show runners from across the country to watch new works and scout talent.

With word spreading in the industry and among theater goers, many of the shows are sellouts. But, they've expanded to include FREE outdoor shows at Falls Park. Plus, Greenville native and Tony Award Winner Phillip Boykin-The Boy Can Entertain will do a ticketed performance to close the fest tomorrow night.

Check out the Sunday schedule and snag the a couple of the few remaining tickets to see Boykin, back in his hometown.
https://www.southcarolinanewplayfestival.org/

👏🏽 Our beloved litter crew gets more than million views, 🌏 a global restaurant chain chooses as its first U.S. location, 🎬 movies in the park getting ready for "action" 🚸 and improving infrastructure to make school zones safer. Say hi 👋🏽 to Henry in .

🚧 YOUR CITY AT WORK. 🚸 While students were on break, our summer infrastructure "projects" focused on making school zones SAFER!

We made significant pedestrian safety upgrades near 10 school campuses, installing 63 new ramps, repairing 528 square yards of sidewalk and putting in 59 new high-visibility crosswalks.

Principals, teachers, students and parents give us an 🅰️📝

Split by a state highway nearly 75 years ago, now surrounded by new development around County Square, City planners spent the past 7 months working with Haynie-Sirrine residents, business owners and stakeholders to develop a plan to preserve neighborhood character, protect open space, provide affordable housing and create connectivity.

The Haynie-Sirrine Neighborhood Plan is ready for public review before going to Planning Commission and then City Council.

Take a look. Let us know what you think. Our goal is to give you the information so you can give us input.

https://greenvillesc.gov/2188/Haynie-Sirrine-Neighborhood-Plan-Update

🌴 Luxury brands in the palm of our hand.
🍌 Real ap"peal" for the Savannah Bananas
🍗 Eating the heat on National Chicken Wing Day
🚐 Free Rides on Greenlink on 8/3

➡️ Here's Loren with

Greenville leads with affordable housing solutions. We provide tools so our partners can build homes. 🧰
"We invest in people," says Mayor Knox White. "Money is not the only answer. Partnership, creativity, mindfulness and accountability are required for a positive impact on quality of life for all." 👏🏽

Watch to see how we are using innovative financial strategies, land donations and collaboration with private developers to prioritize this important need.

Pick up this weeks Greenville Journal to learn more and check out our affordable housing resources: https://greenvillesc.gov/1633/Affordable-Housing

went BANANAS 🍌 this weekend! The Party Animals and The Firefighters turned Fluor Field into the ultimate party for a sold-out, two-day event. Greenville City Fire joined in on the Firefighters walkout, turning up the heat and the excitement! 🔥🔥

🎓💪🏽🔥 Graduating a new class of first responders. Seventeen young people successfully completed the Summer Training Camp and are certified firefighters. The high-intensity, physically challenging eight-week program is FREE as part of our commitment to public safety and our community.

🎳 Pinning down the Olympics of Bowling, 🔥 Graduating new first responders from the fire academy, 🚘 Driving business tourism with a major automotive conference, 🐐 Bringing baaack the GOATs of w**d eating, 🦆 and QUACKing the code to help stuck baby ducks. Here's Loren with

"Everyone is welcome. Unless you are mean. We don't like mean. We don't like rude," says Chef Dayna Lee-Márquez of Comal 864, a self-taught cook and restauranteur who's creating a space for people of all backgrounds to gather and find comfort in a great meal.

Around that mission of kindness and community service. (She feeds her community and gives back, BIG TIME) a powerful force in the culinary world is rising. An appearance this summer on the Food Network, mentions in Southern Living, and the semi-finals of James Beard Foundation awards in 2023, are just the appetizer for this main course.

Find them at their original location at 1112 Woodside Avenue in West Greenville and their new one at 219 W. Antrim near McAllister Square.

No need to spin this. 🎳 will host the "Olympics of Bowling" in 2028. 💪🏽

VisitGreenville SC and the Greenville Convention Center joined the The Sport of Bowling – USBC to announce the USBC- Open Championships, a six-month event expected to bring in 55k bowlers and knock down previous records for economic impact.

⏯️ Watch to see how the Convention Center will be transformed into a massive bowling alley and find out how the SPARE wood will be used after the tourney!

Have you HERD? 🐐 Our goatscaping crew is baaaack. Based on a GRUFF estimate the goats have chomped 1.6 million w**ds in Cleveland Park and Gatlin Park. 🌱 Now they're munching through invasive plants at Sliding Rock Creek!

A Roxbury Goat Barn, llc

🚨 Greenville is growing, but our crime rate is declining. 🚨
When a crime does occur, the officers of the Greenville Police Department are tenacious in their pursuit of justice, clearing crimes by arrest at more than twice the national average.

👋🏽 Meet GPD's Officer of the Year and learn how his passion is keeping our community safe.