Following on the completion of The Guild and the Greystar headquarters building at Courier Square, clients Greystar and Evening Post Industries asked for a master plan suggesting how the area directly to the west could be redeveloped as a mixed-use residential neighborhood. Without an actual program, the master plan explored potential ways to create a charming variety of buildings and outdoor public spaces on this underutilized but central location, where visitors arriving by car enter Charleston’s historic Lower Peninsula.

The plan looks to create a residential neighborhood of new buildings around a new city park. Larger buildings, their size broken down by the varied expression of their parts, reinforce the commercial character of King Street. Landscaped mews running north-south and east-west provide for pedestrian circulation, the latter terminating at the clock tower of the Guild and the former at a proposed hotel. Lower buildings incorporating street-facing courtyards were proposed to be compatible with the residential scale of St. Philip Street. These ideas helped inform guidelines for buildings to be designed in future by a select group of architects.