Business View Magazine | February 2019

185 items in the building are water and energymeter- ing; lowVOC (volatile organic compound) emitting materials; hearing induction loops (an assistive listening technology for individuals with reduced ranges of hearing), and, obviously, connections to our public transportation–Amtrak and other local transit.” Greenville has also made substantial improve- ments to its uptown district–more than $650 million in public and private investment over the last ten years.“Most downtowns serve as the ‘liv- ing room’ for any community,” says CityManager, AnnWall.“It’s the place where you gather and celebrate,where you entertain,where people come to interact.And we try to do all of that with our downtown, particularly with Millennials and the young students at East Carolina University.They want a downtown with interesting places to go, fun activities, and so we do that with a combination of infrastructure development, providing incentives to property owners to redevelop properties, and by providing events and activities that they can participate in.”“We continue to offer small business grants and façade improvement grants to try to at- tract businesses to our uptown district and to make it more aesthetically pleasing for people who visit,” Letchworth adds. Regarding other infrastructure projects on the city’s agenda,Mulligan notes,“We’re working with the NCDOT (North Carolina Department of Transporta- tion).We’re investing approximately $450 million in roadway improvement projects throughout the city. There are eight major, ongoing road projects, right now.And, in the last five years, the city has added several miles of greenway; any time we’re upgrad- ing or resurfacing a road,we’re looking at installing