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Greenville City reviews neighborhood infrastructure bond projects, highlights parks and planned resiliency hub
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City staff told the mayor and council that 26 of 37 infrastructure projects funded or supported by the neighborhood infrastructure bond are complete, citing park upgrades, 25 miles of repaving, expanded sidewalks and a Nicholtown community center that will include a resilience hub.
Greenville City staff updated the mayor and council on the neighborhood infrastructure bond and related engineering work, saying the program has delivered parks, sidewalks and traffic-system upgrades across multiple neighborhoods.
"Gower Park back in April 2024, and the project delivered 2 basketball, 2 full court basketball courts, 3 tennis courts, 10 dedicated pickleball courts, 3 shade structures, new court lighting for all courts," said Jeff Waters, the city's capital projects director, as he recapped completed park work. Waters said the Gower Park project used about $970,000 in NIB funding and leveraged additional grant funding.
Waters listed other completed projects including McPherson Park (court replacement and repaving) and Cleveland Park improvements completed in June 2025 that added courts, parking upgrades and widened sidewalks to connect trails. He said Holmes Park received court repairs, a new picnic shelter and parking-lot paving, with the shelter expected to be finished in December–January.
On community facilities, Waters described the Nicholtown community center project as a roughly $1.8 million net contribution from the NIB, supplemented by state and grant funds. "We have $3,000,000 from the state, $40,000 from the bustour arena for the team lounge, and then a $100,000, Municipal Association of South Carolina for the big idea grants," Waters said, describing funding sources that helped enlarge meeting space and add staff facilities.
Waters and engineering staff framed the Nicholtown site as Greenville’s first local resiliency hub: "Day to day is our community center. That when there's an emergency event, it can spool up to provide neighborhood resources," Waters said, noting the hub would offer charging stations and temporary heating and cooling centers during outages and extreme weather.
Engineering staff and planners also highlighted larger program outcomes: presenters said the city paved about 25 miles of roads over three years, added roughly 21 miles of enhanced bike lanes and seven miles of new sidewalk, and used matching grants and loans to expand the effect of NIB dollars.
