GREENVILLE, S.C. (WSPA) – The City of Greenville has approved the first reading of an ordinance that would give more than $1.5 million dollars of Capital Projects Funds to two projects.
The projects would serve the Southernside and Viola neighborhoods.
According to residents, each community has a “multiservice center” that has now stood empty for years.
“When we first moved into the neighborhood, it seemed like it was being used as an afterschool program for neighborhood kids,” said Southernside resident Robert Bonnano. “Then the Covid pandemic started and since then I haven’t really seen it being used.”
Bonnano, a father of three, lives right across from the Southernside multiservice center where signs reading “Proposed Relocation Demolition” have sat on its lawn for months.
Bonnano said if the center were open, he’d try to take advantage of it.
“I think we’d use it and we’d like to spend time there as a family if possible,” said Bonnano.