I love that the tendency in Charleston is to bend – to grow, to change with the times, rather than stubbornly allowing an area to die before anyone will try thinking of it a little differently.
"Every once in awhile, it still happens, attorney R. Spencer Roddey said. Someone will drive into Charleston, park beside a meter and walk door-to-door until they find a lawyer to champion their cause.
'Now, that’s a vestige of how it used to be here, and it shows you how long images last,' said Roddey as he sat in a second floor office in a building that was built on Broad Street sometime between 1698 and 1708.
'Broad Street was all about the law and lawyers and the courthouse, but that was way before my time,' said the partner at Stoney, Gouldon and Roddey LLP. 'Today you’re as likely as not to pass a bank or an art gallery as a law firm while on the street, but it continues to thrive.'
Like many things in Charleston, there’s a before and after in the contemporary business life of Broad Street. And like almost like all the rest, what resides in between is Hurricane Hugo. After the hurricane destroyed the old county courthouse, a temporary court was established in North Charleston, on the grounds of the old Charleston Naval Base. For a time, Broad Street lost its core, and law firms, having no reason to be anchored to there, began to migrate.
But the neighborhood didn’t die. Instead, thanks largely to an influx of banks and other financial service providers that became its second cornerstone in the wake of Hugo, it’s enjoyed a tremendous and many-faceted rebirth."
'Now, that’s a vestige of how it used to be here, and it shows you how long images last,' said Roddey as he sat in a second floor office in a building that was built on Broad Street sometime between 1698 and 1708.
'Broad Street was all about the law and lawyers and the courthouse, but that was way before my time,' said the partner at Stoney, Gouldon and Roddey LLP. 'Today you’re as likely as not to pass a bank or an art gallery as a law firm while on the street, but it continues to thrive.'
Like many things in Charleston, there’s a before and after in the contemporary business life of Broad Street. And like almost like all the rest, what resides in between is Hurricane Hugo. After the hurricane destroyed the old county courthouse, a temporary court was established in North Charleston, on the grounds of the old Charleston Naval Base. For a time, Broad Street lost its core, and law firms, having no reason to be anchored to there, began to migrate.
But the neighborhood didn’t die. Instead, thanks largely to an influx of banks and other financial service providers that became its second cornerstone in the wake of Hugo, it’s enjoyed a tremendous and many-faceted rebirth."
For the full Charleston Regional Business Journal article: http://www.charlestonbusiness.com/pub/13_21/news/10553-1.html
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