0210_04_FocalPoint

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When Falls Park opened in 2004, most Greenville residents didn’t know
there was a natural waterfall in the middle of downtown. “A concrete
bridge was built on top of the falls,” says Greenville Mayor Knox White.
“People who lived here all their lives had no idea we had this in the center
of town.” Developing the park took about two years and included removing
the concrete bridge and building the 355-foot-long, pedestrian-only Liberty




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Bridge. “The bridge ebbs like the Reedy River, and it doesn’t crowd the
falls,” White says. “You always see people down here now. They love it.”




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