Committee certifies Keys Drive property as abandoned building to enable revitalization

Greenville County’s finance committee certified a property on Keys Drive as an abandoned building, clearing the way for a local developer to pursue rehabilitation and tenanting under the county’s abandoned building tax-credit process.

Mister Rings appeared before the committee to describe the request and said the file included an affidavit establishing that two units in the property were abandoned and require structural and infrastructure improvements. “This is a straightforward request,” Rings said.

A councilor asked what the property had been used for; Rings replied it had been office space that had been vacant for some time and needs structural and infrastructure work. A motion to certify the property as abandoned carried by voice vote; the transcript records the committee approving the motion but does not show a roll-call vote.

Certification permits the county to move forward with the abandoned building tax credit and rehabilitation process; the transcript does not specify the developer’s name, proposed scope of the rehabilitation, or a construction timeline.