30 Years Ago, Mill Workers Fled South Carolina in Droves. Now, Its Startup Scene Is Making a Remarkable Transformation
December 17, 2019
Entrepreneurship
Shared By Scott Millwood
MY THOUGHTS:
Our hometown of Greenville, SC has been recognized by Inc. Magazine on their Surge Cities list this year. I'm quoted in the lead article.
Original Article:
When Scott Millwood was growing up and going to college near Greenville, South Carolina, he says, "I didn't see it as a place where I'd want to live." With the textile industry moving its mills to Asia, "the city faced a really tough transition." Millwood remembers the grand old Poinsett Hotel, erected in 1925, sitting vacant downtown. "There were no windows, and homeless people were burning trash-can fires