Officials break ground on Unity Park in Greenville
May 02, 2019City officials and invited guests partook in a groundbreaking celebration for the Unity Park near downtown Greenville on Thursday. (FoxCarolina)
SLIDESHOW: Unity Park Groundbreaking
May 02, 2019(FoxCarolina)
Demolition day at Unity Park in Downtown Greenville
May 02, 2019It’s demolition day at Unity Park for the 40 million dollar project in downtown Greenville. (WYFF)
Ground breaks on Unity Park: 4 things you should know about Greenville's future landmark
May 02, 2019Greenville broke ground Thursday on the 60-acre Unity Park, poised to be a landmark on the west flank of the city's increasingly popular — and valuable — downtown. (The Greenville News)
Community Gathers for Unity Park Demo Day
May 02, 2019Rev. Stacey D. Mills of Mountain View Baptist Church speaks about the impact of Unity Park during demo day. (Greenville Journal)
Unity Park groundbreaking brings city closer to 2021 completion date
May 02, 2019A new park is finally about to be under construction in downtown Greenville (WSPA)
Unity Park: How history will help shape a Greenville crown jewel and who will benefit
Apr 17, 2019The idea of there being anything resembling "beachfront property" in the area west of downtown Greenville where Unity Park will emerge would have been unthinkable even half a decade ago. (The Greenville News)
Businessman gifts Unity Park 'beachfront' lot to Greenville to create affordable housing
Apr 15, 2019Wayne Trotter's land between Meadow and Oscar streets had long been in his father's hands, where the late William Trotter dutifully maintained a duplex that was priced affordably and kept the tenants housed for 50 years. (The Greenville News)
Auro Hotels Makes Largest Donation to Unity Park to Date
Mar 26, 2019Auro Hotels will contribute $500,000 for the pedestrian bridge in Greenville’s new Unity Park, the largest private contribution to the park to date. (Greenville Journal)
Unity Park's pedestrian bridge will bear Auro Hotels name after $500,000 gift
Mar 25, 2019The vision for a pedestrian bridge that would span the Reedy River in the newly created Unity Park west of downtown Greenville has a big-money donor that marks the largest private contribution to the park to date. (The Greenville News)
TD grant will help formulate affordable-housing plan in Unity Park area
Feb 19, 2019A $50,000 grant from the TD Charitable Foundation will help the Greenville Housing Fund formulate an affordable-housing plan for the neighborhoods surrounding Greenville’s planned Unity Park. (Greenville Journal)
How a South Carolina Park Plans to Confront Its Racist History
Oct 29, 2018Not only will Unity Park in Greenville, South Carolina, unite two formerly segregated parks; confronting and educating visitors about its history, including a segregated baseball stadium, is part of the design. (CityLab)
Unity Park Anchors Equitable Development in Greenville
Aug 21, 2018New reconciliation parks in the South — like the Gathering Place in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Red Mountain Park in Birmingham, Alabama — are explicitly designed to bring together previously-segregated communities. But the new Unity Park in Greenville, South Carolina, goes a step further: it will not only bridge communities but also actually merge two once-segregated parks. (The Dirt)
South Carolina Park Looks to Uncover and Mend City’s Segregated History
Aug 21, 2018Plans to develop a $40 million park in an abandoned and once segregated part of the city are bringing this history to light. But the story behind Unity Park—planned to open in 2020—is also the story of how Greenville has undergone a radical transformation, all while becoming a national model for intelligent and inclusive urban planning. (Forbes)
City: Building affordable housing on city-owned property around Unity Park way to fight rising property values, housing costs
Jul 04, 2018Arguably the city owns some of the most valuable and developable land in Greenville — 25 acres just a couple of blocks away from the new Unity Park. (Greenville Journal)
Greenville Unveils Unity Park plans
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