CITY CENTER DESIGN/DEVELOPMENT GUIDELINES

These Guidelines have been prepared as part of a larger strategic assessment effort that the City of Columbia initiated in early 1997. The overall purpose of the strategic assessment process is to identify and implement strategies to revitalize what has come to be known as "City Center. Reflecting common usage in many European cities, as well as many American capital cities, the City Center label applies to the area bordered by the Congaree River on the west, Elmwood Avenue to the north, Pickens Street to east, and Blossom Street on the south. Through the years, parts or all of this area have been referred to variously as the Congaree Vista, Main Street, the Vista, the Central Business District (or CBD), and the Urban Core.