{"id":41284,"date":"2025-09-24T16:00:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/spartanburg-clock-tower-to-be-dismantled-city-votes-to-preserve-pieces\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T16:00:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:00:32","slug":"spartanburg-clock-tower-to-be-dismantled-city-votes-to-preserve-pieces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/24\/spartanburg-clock-tower-to-be-dismantled-city-votes-to-preserve-pieces\/","title":{"rendered":"Spartanburg Clock Tower to Be Dismantled | City Votes to Preserve Pieces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TyoFMa26xJk?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>After months of public debate, Spartanburg City Council has voted to dismantle the iconic downtown clock tower. In a 4\u20132 vote, the council approved a plan to preserve key pieces \u2014 including the clock face and inner workings \u2014 which will be displayed in the new city-county building plaza.<\/p>\n<p>City leaders say keeping the entire structure would have cost nearly $900,000 and impacted funding for the Morgan Square redevelopment. Some residents are still voicing disappointment, but officials say this change honors both past and future generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of public debate, Spartanburg City Council has voted to dismantle the iconic downtown clock tower. In<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":41285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upstate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}