Construction of Columbia's The BullStreet District is underway. | Courtesy of Unsplash
Construction of Columbia's The BullStreet District is underway. | Courtesy of Unsplash
The largest city-center development east of the Mississippi — The BullStreet District — to repurpose and transform 181 acres of Columbia land into walkable areas of residential, retail, restaurant and recreational space is underway.
“Significant construction projects on Sumter St, Lady St, Main &; Assembly Sts Another BIG groundbreaking coming to Assembly! 7 crews on @BullStreetSC alone &; SC’s largest economic development announcement in 2020 @WhiteClaw! We love cranes! @ColumbiaSC @RichlandSCrolling,” tweeted Columbia Mayor Steve Benjamin.
The BullStreet project will be twice the size as the city's Central Business District, a New York Times story about the project said.
Among the areas to be developed are the WestLawn office building, which will feature 79,000-square-feet of space to become the largest office building of its kind in the state, the project's website said. WestLawn is slated to open in April 2022.
Additionally, the nearly 200-year-old former South Carolina Lunatic Asylum will be converted into a mixed-use real estate project. The building’s materials consist of historic brick and are surrounded by almost 200 acres of lawns and greens, the New York Times story said.
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