Updated: 10:46 PM EDT April 19, 2021
COLUMBIA, S.C. The Bull Street District looks very different now than it did last year.
Buildings and townhomes have been erected and businesses are now operational.
Ground has been leveled out for the University of South Carolina s Health and Sciences campus, and 16-acres to house a new medical school and research center.
While a community of two and three bedroom town homes with roof decks, garages and a private courtyard, which were under construction last year, are now occupied.
Chandler Cox, from the Bull Street Commission says, In phase one all of those units are now sold and occupied, phase two are two bedroom and two bathroom units that had been completed in September and three of those units have been sold.
Renovation to begin on iconic Bull Street building damaged in fire Author: WLTX Updated: 6:29 PM EST December 17, 2020
COLUMBIA, S.C. The iconic red dome on the Babcock Building will rise again over the Columbia skyline. Developers of the BullStreet District announced Thursday, Dec. 17, that funding has been secured to start the reconstruction of the building that was heavily damaged by fire on September 12.
Clachan Properties of Richmond, VA., the owner of the building, closed on the tax credit equity and a U.S. Housing and Urban Development’s long-term, low interest loan last week that was required to help finance the costly renovation of Babcock, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.