Above is the BJU campus as the Greenville City aerial photo captured it in 2021. The red pin is Rodeheaver.
If you poke around that site, slide toward the 1955 picture.
South Drive is that curved road that goes from what was the cleaners, in front the Academy and behind Rodeheaver.
The campus ended there in 1955. That was it. From there to Wade Hampton was BJU. Here's a city map from 1960:
That green was the whole campus in 1960.
BJU bought the soccer field and developed up to Stadium View. But they didn't own from Stadium View to East North until 1998. Remember that. They built scores of houses and developed land and collected rent on property that wasn't theirs for decades.
This in the red was not theirs:
Given that those houses back campus are older than the campus....
Given that several of them have been razed, one since May....
Given that BJU started in Greenville with a little less than half of the property they have now....
Given that they are cozy with residential developers....
I'm betting that they want to sell off that back portion to a developer and shrink their tax bill and responsibilities.
Oh! Taxes! I forgot to show you all about the taxes.
