In February 1869, Greenville’s town charter was amended by the S. C. General Assembly establishing Greenville, the town, as a city.
Greenville is the center of the Upstate region of South Carolina. Numerous large companies are located within the city, such as Michelin, Prisma Health, Bon Secours, and Duke Energy.
As the largest city in the Upstate, Greenville offers many activities and attractions. Greenville’s theaters and event venues regularly host major concerts and touring theater companies. Four independent theaters present several plays a year.
Greenville has also received many accolades and awards. Some of these include “The South’s Most ‘Tasteful’ Small Towns” from Forbes in 2020, number “15 of the Most Underrated Travel Destinations of the Year, So Far” from Insider in 2019, and one of the “Best Places to Live” from Money magazine in 2019.
The City of Greenville always embraces cultural equality, diversity, inclusion, equity, unity and is an historic business-friendly community. Greenville is rolling out the welcome mat to new entrepreneurs, new residents and new value-added minority-owned businesses.
The City of Greenville is an historic business-friendly community that supports any attractive operation or enterprise that adds value to the local commercial business or education ecosystem of the City of Greenville.