March 28, 2024

Tricia Oak

Business & Finance Excellency

Greenville business license incentives could bring more grocery stores

Brett Blackman arranges the tropical fruit section at the Harris Teeter grocery store on Augusta Street in Greenville Tuesday, July 10, 2018.

More grocery stores could be coming to “special-emphasis” neighborhoods like Greater Sullivan, Arcadia Hills and West Greenville thanks to a major overhaul of the city of Greenville’s business-license collection.

Greenville City Council is voting to establish a program that would offer incentives for certain new businesses, including grocery stores in historically minority and low-income neighborhoods. 

The program passed the first of two readings at the City Council meeting Monday night. 

The targeted business license and building permit rebate grant program would offer five-year, 100% business license rebate to new businesses, including:

  • Artists in the Central Business District downtown, the West End and the Village of West Greenville
  • Retail in the CBD and the West End
  • Manufacturing business
  • Corporate headquarters
  • Grocery stores in special-emphasis neighborhoods
  • Any commercial annexation


https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/2021/10/28/greenville-sc-business-license-incentives-could-bring-more-grocery-stores/6173096001/