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About This Report
The Post and Courier is publishing a series of reports by the Citistates Group analyzing the threat and potential that growth presents the Lowcountry.
The Citistates Group, led by nationally syndicated columnist Neal Peirce and urban affairs expert Curtis Johnson, conducted extensive interviews over the year to dissect the three-county Charleston metropolitan area's strengths and weaknesses in handling its growth challenges. The Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelly Foundation, a nonprofit organization interested in Lowcountry land conservation issues, paid for the majority of the Citistates Group's bill. Among other groups contributing to the cost are The Mills B. Lane Foundation, Merck Family Fund and The Charleston Chamber of Commerce. The Post and Courier Foundation also made a contribution.The Coastal Community Foundation serves as the financial conduit and contract administrator. No government money is involved. The findings and recommendations are solely those of the Citistates Group. The Post and Courier agreed to run the group's report as a community service. Peirce and Johnson have written reports on 24 metropolitan areas during the past 20 years, including Dallas, Charlotte, Lexington, Ky.; Nashville, Tenn.; and Miami-Fort Lauderdale.
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Newer stories | Older stories Is housing for all a possibility?Sunday, Oct. 7, 2007The ferocious housing inflation of recent years has made Charleston-area homeownership, or even an affordable apartment, hard for even average wage-earners to achieve. On top of that, the heavy pressures of gentrification are forcing people of less means out of their Charleston neighborhoods, often northward out of the city entirely. Read story. Schools for the whole communitySunday, Oct. 7, 2007Could 21st-century schools start to reknit our communities while providing critical basic education? Read story. A Lowcountry Valentine (And the glass half-empty)Sunday, Oct. 7, 2007We've focused for the past four Sundays on an array of hard Charleston-area challenges — growth and its dilemmas, transportation, development of the 'New Neck,' the imperative of more unified regional leadership. Read story. Warming to the timesSunday, Sept. 30, 2007Like it or not, overwhelming evidence says global warming will impact the planet, and without question, the Charlotte region. South Carolina anglers and hunters are already noticing such changes as earlier springs and hotter summers. Even without ocean rise, veteran South Carolina game warden Ben... Read story. The price of having it allSunday, Sept. 30, 2007Growth is good, people told us. But traffic is bad. A resilient, expansive economy is what we want, you said. But also the tourist magnet of historic land and homes. Those are values colliding with each other. A bigger one's coming — possibly a momentous collision. ... Read story. Democratizing development gets citizens involvedSunday, Sept. 30, 2007Should development "just happen"? Or should residents of specific neighborhoods or geographic areas be invited to envision just how they'd like to see nearby development proceed over time? As an alternative to developers calling the tune solo, or city and county officials making sudden "top... Read story. New cities north of 526?Sunday, Sept. 30, 2007Where and how will the region grow in the years ahead? There are promising ideas to concentrate more population close to today's jobs, in the Charleston-North Charleston Neck Area. But North of Interstate 526, there's potential for intense development too. Logical locations are in the area... Read story. Road Rage and the future of transit across the LowcountrySunday, Sept. 23, 2007Nick Salvucci is a young man with a family and a good job in the Charleston region. But nearly every day, he has to do battle with the transportation trap that the Charleston region has become. Salvucci works for an advertising firm in West Ashley, and up until last spring he worked at the... Read story. Summerville to Charleston: Making rail a realitySunday, Sept. 23, 2007OK. You've studied it — twice. Now it's time to write checks and try it out. The track exists, with the owner, Norfolk Southern, open to a track-sharing arrangement. Sure, there are issues. Some track upgrading and better signaling at cross streets are needed, and at the downtown Cha... Read story. Solving the transportation puzzle that the port presentsSunday, Sept. 23, 2007It should be the Charleston region's worst transportation nightmare — the Port of Charleston completes its new Navy Base terminal, the special connector road to Interstate 95 is constructed and the trucks start to roar through — 7,000 daily, one every six seconds du... Read story. A Promising New EconomySunday, Sept. 16, 2007All by itself, the dramatic change in the residential landscape bursting on the New Neck would put it at center stage in the region's growth. But there are even more reasons for optimism. ... Read story. New Neighborhoods: Breakthroughs where least expectedSunday, Sept. 16, 2007Today there’s no place in the three counties more alive with interesting development and redevelopment experiments — some of cutting-edge quality — than the Neck and the North Area. ... Read story. The New NeckSunday, Sept. 16, 2007— North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey North Charleston Mayor Keith Summey couldn't be more right about the importance of the Neck, and that's partly because, as a zone of opportunity, it's getting bigger. Longtimers think of the Neck as that narrow territory starting at Mount Pleasant... Read story. The Port and the Environment:Sunday, Sept. 16, 2007The grand new expansion of the Port of Charleston is said to have dazzling economic pluses. But what about the environment and public health? Charleston-area business and political leaders have embraced the mega-port operation, adding three major new berths for freight-bearing ships and mor... Read story. Push to preserve is alive and wellTuesday, Sept. 11, 2007Some places have a lot more value than the cash they'd fetch. ... Read story. Newer stories | Older stories |
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