{"id":27202,"date":"2023-08-21T13:25:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T17:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=27202"},"modified":"2023-08-23T16:20:52","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T20:20:52","slug":"construction-underway-for-startup-community-on-poinsett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/construction-underway-for-startup-community-on-poinsett\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction underway for startup community on Poinsett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to an article by Conor Hughes in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/greenville\/business\/transformation-of-greenville-pepsi-cola-plant-into-startup-community-underway\/article_5b399994-3c70-11ee-a849-c31e632f3d83.html\">The Post and Courier &#8211; Greenville<\/a>, work has begun to convert a historic industrial building that once operated as a bottling plant in Greenville into a hub for entrepreneurs and business startups. The hub, known as the Crescent Startup Community, will be anchored by Flywheel Coworking, a Winston-Salem based company with five locations across the Southeast. The Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Furman University will also have a presence at the 47,000-square-foot Poinsett Highway facility now designated a historic site by the State Historic Preservation Office and the National Park Service, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/gsabusiness.com\/news\/construction\/83919\/?utm_term=Reimagined%20Pepsi-Cola%20facility%20in%20Greenville%20designated%20National%20Historic%20Site&amp;utm_campaign=Reimagined%20Pepsi-Cola%20facility%20in%20Greenville%20designated%20National%20Historic%20Site&amp;utm_content=Editorial&amp;utm_source=Act-On+Software&amp;utm_medium=SCBIZ&amp;Email=tina.underwood@furman.edu\">GSA Business<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/whosonthemove.com\/crescent-startup-community-designated-a-national-historic-site\/\">UpstateBizSC<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction has begun for the Crescent Startup Community on Poinsett Highway. The Hill Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Furman will have a presence at the 47,000-square-foot hub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":9654,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1711,6,81,2232,140],"tags":[2233,2234],"class_list":["post-27202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-gsa-business-report","category-in-the-news","category-innovation-and-entrepreneurship","category-the-post-and-courier-greenville","category-upstatebizsc","tag-co-working-space","tag-crescent-startup-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}