Hello everyone and Welcome to another

episode of Selling Greenville your

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Greenville, South Carolina, I'm your host

as always Stan Mccune realtor right here

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are going to keep a little tradition

going which is the tradition that

I've had for a few years now of every

year around Thanksgiving I do a

thankfulness episode this is just could

be anything anything about real estate

or about my life in general or about

Greenville that I'm thankful for and

this year I want to do a thankfulness

episode the things that I'm thankful for

specifically about Greenville city the

city of Greenville not the county of

Greenville if you listened last week you

know I am grateful for the county

but there are some things that I I would

like to to see changed specifically

in local government but and terms of

Greenville city there are a bunch of

things that I'm thankful for when it

comes to Greenville city and I just want

to start right off the top um and talk

about Unity Park I'm really thankful for

Unity Park brand new I I guess it's

not brand new anymore but it still feels

like a brand new park on the west side

of Greenville just an incredible Park

in so many ways I talked to someone

recently that that went by and they

were just like it's a very small

playground and and I was like well

you don't go there for the playground

it's you know incredible Hills that they

put in there and and the astr Turf

and the kids they just like rolling on

the ground and rolling on the astr turf

and and jumping on on the different

things you can jump on there and it's

just a really incredible park it it

reminded me honestly I was in

California in May on vacation and there

is a park a pretty new park right across

from the golden Gate Bridge that we went

to and I was like oh this is just like

Unity Park and we don't you know

Greenville is nothing like San Francisco

but we have parks that can compete

with parks in San Francisco and and

listen I know there's a lot of haters

out there has been Unity park has gotten

a lot of negative press for for a lot of

things that they can't even control and

so that's part of why I wanted to

express that I'm grateful for the park

it's because there have been just to

many people that have just

been Mal content when it comes to

this park it's a great Park listen go to

any City and you can find things to

complain about and I would just say if

you're you know a keyboard Warrior over

there on you know nextdoor.com

wanting to say the you know that you saw

a homeless person Unity Park and you're

upset about that why don't you go help

out the homeless person don't complain

about the park okay I'm sick and

tired of people doing that kind of stuff

so I am grateful for Unity Park my

kids love it I love it my dog loves it

everyone loves it except for a

handful of haters that have no

business

expressing their hatred in in my

personal opinion you certainly have the

ability and the Free Speech to do that

and I will support that but I don't

think it's it's well founded here's

another one that is perhaps

controversial but I am thankful for it

and that's the Grand Bohemian Hotel this

is the massive Lodge style hotel that

I just learned recently is owned by one

person which is nuts but it's a the

massive hotel that's at the end of the

suspension bridge at Falls Park and

listen a lot of controversy about this

about this hotel people saying it didn't

fit in with the downtown Vibe it didn't

fit in with the other structures

downtown I don't know I always thought

it to me it it fit in really well right

because we have kind of this this

outdoorsy type of of culture here in

Greenville and that's what the Grand

Bohemian is really all about it's like

this massive Lodge gives a

tribute to Native Americans

throughout great artwork great jewelry

if you just want to walk inside and see

it restaurant is a little bit

underwhelming there but the bar is

really good over looks The Falls I

got to stay there I'm not just you know

saying that I like it because it looks

cool I have been through it I've been

to you know the restaurant and the bar

and I actually got to stay there a

little station that my wife and I did

for our anniversary it was incredible in

incredible all

around and I think it's a

fantastic addition to the Falls Park

area and you know Greenville lacks you

know one of the few things we lack is

really really nice hotels we've got an

abundance of three and fourstar hotels

the Grand Bohemian slots right in there

and that you know four and a half maybe

some might argue it's a five star I

would say it's probably a four and a

half star Hotel I don't think it's

quite on par with you know the Ritz

Carlton four seasons of the world but

it's instantly one of the nicest in the

upstate and I am grateful for that

another thing or in this case person I'm

grateful for is marox white who just won

a contested re-election campaign

claims it's his last time running as

mayor of Greenville and listen

under mayor

white we have seen a radical

transformation in the City of Greenville

and I got to meet him recently great

experience this is a person who he

doesn't just talk the talk he walks the

walk he's very excited about Greenville

he's an incredible Visionary he he is

thinking I mean just as he's just

talking off the top of his head he's

just a wealth of information and just

ideas he brings you know you don't

typically think of Mayors as being kind of

entrepreneurial and and particularly

someone like like Knox white with his

background which I'm not going to get

into you wouldn't think of him

necessarily in an entrepreneurial

fashion but let me tell you I know an

entrepreneur when I meet one and you've

got someone entrepreneurs tend to be a

little bit untethered in terms of

like all their different ideas that they

have and Mar white has all those

different ideas but they're but they're

tethered that's the that's the very

unique thing about him is that I've

talked to a lot of politicians a lot of

people that just have all these ideas

and it's like yeah but you're not going

to accomplish any of those things we

have a mayor in Greenville that doesn't

just have ideas all of his ideas are

Tethered to reality all of his ideas

have some sort of basis at least the

ones that that I've heard him say have

some sort of basis in well here's

something that's happening and off of

that we hope that this happens and then

off of that we hope that this happens

basically an extension of what the city

is already doing and so this is why I

I didn't have the opportunity to vote

for him but I would have voted for him

in the most recent elections was because

he has done so much for the city and

there's so much more that he is working

on that the city is working on and that

he has his fingerprints all over and

this is one of those things you know

Greenville the past hundred years has

not had very many mayors but they've all

had a massive impact on the

city I've been blessed to see this City

flourish under mayor white and I'm

extremely grateful for him and what he's

done we would not have the downtown and

not just the downtown aot you know but

the city as a whole is is really

flourishing in a lot of ways we would

not have that if it weren't for the

leadership that the mayor and his office

has provided number four on my list

I've only got five on this list this is

going to be a quick episode you know

it's a it's a holiday week so you

guys you know listen and then go eat

some turkey but number four on my

list is the Peace Center and the

attached restaurant in geneves so full

disclosure it took me years before I

finally went to the Peace Center I

didn't go to the Peace Center for the

first time until last year and that was

kind of in that was a concerted effort

that was a realization after Co that was

like Hey we've got this incredible

Concert Hall they have a lot of really

fantastic shows why am I not taking

advantage of this and and Co and

seizures that I had due to epilepsy that

that really knocked me out for a while

all these different things that

happened in 2020 kind of brought me to

my senses of

like I need to to actually start to go

to some of these shows that they have at

the Peace Center and now having gone

there a few times most recently I also

went to the the attached restaurant

geneves the pie Center is wonderful

my I only have one complaint and that's

that you can only bring water into the

into the the main seating area

that that to me I understand why they do

that that's a big frustration for me

because you know if you're if you're

getting something to drink you don't

want to have to you know chug it

right before going in but I'm nitpicking

a little bit the Peace Center is

great they have great shows I mean we've

had you know all sorts of of famous

people that have come through there over

the years I'm going to be seeing

Journey coming through there and

February I'm I'm really looking forward

to that there's just well actually I

apologize journey is probably going to

the well I'm need to go back and

look at my tickets they might actually

be a bon Sor nonetheless I've seen

some fantastic shows there since my

first one last year and I'm really

looking forward to Future shows and

jenev eives listen I guess that

there's a way to to sneak in there when

there's not a show happening but they

they claim that they're only for people

going to the show which I think going to

shows which at the Peace Center which I

think is fair but geneves is great I

mean they're portion sizes if you're a

big portion Siz person nothing to to

write home about but their food is

top-notch simple menu but they do it

really really well the vibe in there is

incredible just looking out at the

white Pavilion and and the

river and you know all the different

hotels and you know art Crossing and

and all of that just a fantastic

place to to grab something to eat or to

drink before or after the show just

incredible and so I'm I'm really

grateful for the Peace Center and for

geneves last but not least I told you

this was going to be a quick episode

I want to say I'm I'm just grateful for

the downtown business owners it is

insanely hard to run a business in

really any downtown but probably

particularly Downtown Greenville

we've got you know taxes are expensive

rent is expensive real estate's

expensive insurance is expensive

everything's expensive we're constantly

seeing businesses come and businesses go

it's very hard it's it's a labor of love very

disappointed earlier this year when

Luna Rose

had to close some other businesses

had to had to close because they had

just you know made some calculated

mistakes that just led to them closing

that's the thing the the margin for

error is basically none if you're a

business owner downtown and for those

people who are willing to take that

chance willing to invest their

hard-earned

money and investors that are willing to

invest their hard-earned money in

businesses downtown

and go through all the hoops and try to

build a client base and just do all

these things that are are required to

have a downtown business listen I am

kudos to them I am super grateful for

all of those people willing to go out on

a limb and do that thank you so much if

you're if you're a downtown business

owner or if you have family or

friends or whatever thank you for being

willing to stick it out downtown

Greenville it yeah sure we've got a

great Park and all of that but it but if

it wasn't for the incredible businesses

that are downtown the incredible

businesses in the City of Greenville

even that aren't downtown you start to

extend out just businesses in the

city as a whole it's a lot of work it

is a labor of love you have to have you

have to do it not just for the business

not just for yourself but also for

Greenville you have to be in order to

endure that you have to have something

bigger than than just making money

there's a lot of easier ways to make

money than to have a business downtown

so special thanks to all of the downtown

business owners you guys have have a

little place in my heart because I have

owned a business before I'm not talking

about my real estate business I had a

frozen yogurt business some of you know

if you know you know did not work out

super well for me I was not good at

running my own business and that

wasn't in the City of

Greenville and so for those that are

in the city tons of respect mad props

to you guys thank you for for making the

city as great as it is if you guys have

anything that you're thankful for

whether it's the city the county the

state whatever let me know my contact

information is in the show notes I

appreciate you guys listening enjoy your

Thanksgiving all right this is a great

great holiday it's gonna it's going

to be a little bit of a rough one for me

my wife's uncle who we always go

to visit on Thanksgiving day he

passed away this year my father also

passed away this year so this will be a

time kind of a mixed thankfulness

combined with reminders of what has

been lost this year but the

thankfulness will overcome the sorrow

and I'm confident for that and I'm and I

just want to say as well I know it's

cheesy but I'm really thankful for all

of you guys my listeners so if you need

my contact information it's in the show

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after you guys have gotten full and

eaten yourselves sick we will talk again

next week after the holiday