Fort Mill is getting 25 million from the state for a new operations center

With $25 million from the State of South Carolina’s budget a new operations center will soon be built to better meet the needs of rapidly growing Fort Mill… The new operations center will house public works, the utilities’ department, and other Fort Mill town offices.. Six years ago, S.C. Rep. Raye Felder started making requests in the state budget for the public works space in Fort Mill, but the COVID-19 pandemic put the project on the back burner…At a gathering this morning at the aging Fort Mill armory where the Operations Center is now located, Felder said, “this year, with much appreciation to Speaker Murrell Smith and Senator Harvey Peeler, we were able to get a budget allocation to help us get over this hump to get a new operations center. Mayor Guynn Savage said, “the old armory built in 1938 on East Elliott St needs expansion, and the current location doesn’t allow for additional acreage to do so.” Savage said she hopes the new operations center will give Fort Mill’s public departments room to expand with the town’s booming population.