We've spent a lot of time on the City Podcast over the years chronicling Downtown Spartanburg's rise. We've covered historic redevelopments, transformative new construction projects, new City streetscaping, restaurant and retail openings, and events that cater to our diverse, newly vibrant downtown crowds. Along the way, we've also tried our best to contextualize each of these pieces of the downtown redevelopment puzzle, showing as best we can the landscape Spartanburg's people are creating in our city's core. What's the cumulative effect of all that movement? Simple: Downtown Spartanburg is now the place where local institutions, organizations, businesses, and individuals want to be. With their new space inside the newly renovated Aug W. Smith building, Spartanburg Methodist College has become latest example of such an institution, one that recognizes that the new local paradigm shift is very real and that having a presence in Downtown Spartanburg now means being in the middle of the action. Today on the podcast, we're talking with a couple of folks responsible for creating SMC's new “education, collaboration and creation space" on E Main Street, Jennifer Dillenger, Vice President for Institutional Advancement and Kris Neely, Professor of Art and Director of Interdisciplinary Studies.