Once a commercial hub for the Upstate manufacturing industry, the West End suffered through a long period of disinvestment and decline. In an effort to revitalize this community, RiverWalk was the “first-in” redevelopment initiated in the West End since the recession began in 2007. Providing the first apartment units to be constructed in the Central Business District in decades, RiverWalk’s 90,000 sq. ft. mixed-use space includes 44 affordable apartments, 11 artist studios/work spaces and ground floor retail on a site that was left vacant by an electrical distribution company.