MORNING HEADLINES | A key Charleston City Council committee walked away last week from a $30 million offer to buy Charleston County’s Morrison Drive properties when city leaders decided the price was too high, complicating Mayor William Cogswell’s as-yet-unfunded affordable housing plan for the city.
The agreement unravelled over differing appraisal values – a gap of $12 million – by the city and county. The six-acre tract was a centerpiece of an ambitious plan by the mayor to add 3,500 affordable housing units in the city, according to The Post and Courier.
Meanwhile in related stories:
- New student housing development to rise near College of Charleston. The 335-bed development, slated for the 2027-28 school year, is expected to include rooftop decks, a pool deck, fitness center, study areas and ground-floor retail.
- Developer turning abandoned Charleston rail hub into 277 units of upscale housing. Local preservationists give the developer, Lifestyle Communities, high marks for the project’s materials and design.
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In recent headlines
CP OPINION, Brack: A hope for the return of red lights. “Since the January inauguration of President Donald Trump, the nation has often felt like a place without red lights. It’s been go, go, go. But in government, like in traffic, if there aren’t a few red lights to help to order what’s happening in the course of human events, then people, agencies and a country run in different directions like mad headless chickens.”
CP FOOD: How women are shaping Charleston’s food and bev scene. Labor shortages and high turnover are making it hard for many restaurants in the Holy City to stay in business. But amid closures, several eateries with women at the helm are thriving.
CP NEWS REVIEW: Reducing S.C. child abuse could save billions, study says. Child abuse and neglect costs South Carolina more than $74 billion a year — or about $14,000 for every man, woman and child in the state, according to a new economic study from the University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore School of Business.
- CP: Senate panel rejects abortion ban plan + more
- 137 quarantined as Upstate measles outbreak continues to spread
- S.C. nonprofits help hurricane-ravaged Jamaica
Audit faults SLED for slow rape kit progress, but agency leaders say they never had the power to fix it. An April legislative audit criticized the State Law Enforcement Division for not fixing the state’s backlog in rape kit testing as directed by lawmakers in 2020, but SLED maintains it was never given the resources to address the problem.
CHARLESTON ROUNDUP: Hundreds gather in Charleston for ‘Remove the Regime’ rally. Organizers say the anti-Trump march, which ultimately moved forward, was almost suppressed due to the city’s restrictive protest ordinance.
- S.C. Aquarium lights up holidays with ‘Aquarium Aglow’
- Christmas Tree Festival returns to Charleston’s Boone Hall Farms Nov. 22
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