Front Street is transforming again. This time it is a place where chaos and creativitycollaborate to create an exciting arts and culture community. The transformation isalready underway, as it has been for a few years. The plan is to become a well knownregional center, a destination, a reason to exit the highway when passing throughDayton. This time it’s deliberate. It’s being done on purpose and with purpose. Transformation is nothing new in these downtown buildings on Front Street just east ofKeowee Street. This building complex has been near the center of previous changes,some large and some small, some deliberate and some not. It went through severaltransitions in the last century and was a landmark in the century before that. In...
You’re already a part of it. Let’s have some fun. Send photos and stories to: FrontStreetStories@gmail.com photo credit: Chelcie Hinders Front Street Stories. So many voices reverberating, ghostlike, whispering, remnants ofworkdays and rallies, discussions about textures, remarks about colors, eureka!moments and curses, crashes and many hums of hmmm… Night sounds. Crowdnoises. So many great stories. Some of them are yours. 700 women climbing the stairs when Front Street was Mercantile Corporation. They leftstories in the form of grooves in the steps, took splinters from the handrails and leftthem smooth for our touch. They generated a murmur that settled on the printed paperthey produced for the postal service – 7 million pieces per week – and that storytraveled to every city in...
