Mid-rise housing development planned at intersection of Main, College streets
A college-housing developer is in talks to build a 12 to 15-story residential tower not far from USC’s Horseshoe, The State reported.
A single-tower housing complex is being planned by EdR, a Memphis-based developer. The complex will be located near the intersection of Main and College streets and will include parking. EdR has a contract to buy Sandy’s and the Baptist Collegiate Ministry’s student center where the complex is set to go. According to EdR’s vice president of corporate communication and marketing, the deal is not yet sealed.
— Lauren Shirley, News Editor
Police say chances of solving Hipps’ case are slim
The Oconee County Sheriff, Mike Crenshaw, said the chances of solving the Tucker Hipps case are slim, The State reported.
Hipps, a Clemson student, died after falling from a bridge while on a run with 26 other pledges and three members of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. They have been looking for inconsistencies in the stories of the 29 fraternity members and pledges, but their stories have been consistent, Crenshaw said. Crenshaw also said that polygraphs were also a part of the investigation, but he declined to release the results of the tests.
Crenshaw and the 10th Judicial Circuit Solicitor, Chrissy Adams, announced the investigation had stalled but would continue as an unsolved case a day after Hipps’ parents filed their $25 million lawsuit.
— Lauren Shirley, News Editor
House passes bill to raise gas prices, fund South Carolina road repair
The South Carolina House passed a bill to fund the repair of the state’s roads by increasing state gas prices by 10 cents a gallon, The State reported.
The proposal would increase gas prices by the equivalent of 10 cents a gallon, increase the maximum state sales tax on vehicles and cut the average taxpayer’s income by $48 a year. It passed in the house 87 to 20, enough of a margin to survive a veto threat by Gov. Nikki Haley. The Transportation Department estimated a need of $1.5 billion a year to maintain, repair and expand the state’s roads and the proposal will raise roughly $427 million a year.
The House’s proposal will now go to the Senate.
— Lauren Shirley, News Editor