Advertisement ‘Greenville News’ announces massive plan for building site Report: Massive plaza, hotel, stores, eateries planned Share Shares Copy Link Copy

The Greenville News is reporting that its parent company, Gannett Co. Inc.’s sale of the current building is expected to be final early next year, and on Friday, they announced plans for the site.The old Greenville News building will be torn down and replaced with a massive plaza with five buildings around it that will include stores, restaurants, a dine-in theater, apartments and a 140-room hotel, according to a report in the newspaper.To see an illustration of the project layout, click hereThe developers, Centennial American Properties of Greenville and Trammell Crow Co. of Dallas, are expected to drop off the site plan at City Hall on Friday.Ground-level shops and restaurants would nearly encircle the plaza and other retail space would front Main Street, Centennial American's president Brody Glenn reportedly told the “Greenville News.”The site plan also includes a 140-room hotel fronting Main Street across from the Peace Center, a 225-unit apartment complex along Falls Street, and office buildings at the corner of Broad and Falls streets and along Main Street near the bridge over the Reedy River. There will also reportedly be sixteen 2,200-square-foot condos featuring private garages and elevator that open into the units. A fifth building will house a dine-in movie theater and fitness center.The whole project will be built over a parking garage for 800 vehicles.Plans details:South Main StreetHotel – seven-story, upscale property with (+/-) 140 rooms , plaza level lobby with a lounge, and 10,000 square feet of retail space on the plaza levelOffice – six-story office tower (+/- 22,000 square feet per floor) with four levels of premium condominiums above (16 units). There would be separate vertical cores for the office and residential spaces. Building would also include a 6,000 square-foot restaurant on the ground level overlooking Falls Park.Grand staircases that connect the Plaza to both Main Street and Falls Street.East Broad StreetPlaza level drop off/valet area that will be used for the hotel as well as for general property/downtown usage. Plaza would also feature a free-standing valet waiting station.Office – four-story, (+/-) 24,600 square-foot office building with retail space on the plaza level and three levels of office space above.Falls StreetApartments – seven stories of (+/-) 225 residential units for rent above 11,000 square feet of retail space on the plaza levelFitness Center – 28,500 square-foot fitness center with plaza level entranceRetail - 6,800 square-foot, plaza-level retail space connecting between the office and residential spacesTheater – 30,000 square-foot theater below plaza level with plaza-level accessPlaza FeaturesThe plaza will feature landscaping and water features, multiple access points to the (+/-) 800 parking spaces below, and additional small, free-standing retail spaces.