Real Estate Law in Piedmont, SC

PIEDMONT, SC — The Piedmont Post Office is hosting a special hiring event to fill positions for Rural Carrier Assistant (RCA), Assistant Rural Carrier (ARC), and City Carrier Assistant (CCA). This initiative aims to meet the growing needs of the community and surrounding areas.

The Postal Service is dedicated to developing a more stable and empowered workforce. Our employees are our greatest asset, and we invest in new hires by providing comprehensive training and on-the-job support. We offer competitive wages, benefits, and opportunities for career advancement.

The job fair will take place as a walk-in event on Thursday, November 13, 2025, from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM EST. Postal Service personnel will be available to assist with questions regarding benefits, qualifications, and the application process.

If unable to attend the hiring event, applicants may visit and apply at www.usps.com/careers. Additional information regarding how to apply for a Postal Service job can be found at the following link: How to Apply for a Postal Service Job - Postal Posts

Location: Piedmont Public Library ( for Piedmont Post Office) 1407 SC Hwy 86, Piedmont, SC 29673

Rural Carrier Associates (RCA) - $20.38 per hour, paid bi-weekly. Delivers mail and packages and collects packages along routes in rural areas during weekdays, weekends and holidays. May be eligible to receive health benefits and promotion to a career opportunity.

Assistant Rural Carriers (ARC) - $20.38 per hour, paid bi-weekly. Delivers mail and packages and collects packages along designated routes in suburban and rural areas on a varied schedule that may include weekends and holidays.

City Carrier Assistant (CCA) - $20.73 per hour, paid bi-weekly. Delivers mail and packages and collects mail on foot or by vehicle in a city area during weekdays, weekends and holidays with opportunities for career promotion. May be eligible for certain benefits including paid leave and health insurance.

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PIEDMONT — The former Sue Cleveland Elementary School has stood empty since it was replaced with a new facility in 2005. It’s fallen into disrepair in the intervening years.

Many residents in the historic mill village attended school in the now-blighted building as children, said Piedmont Assistant Fire Chief Craig Lawless, and have long hoped something would be done to repurpose the site.

Now, there are tentative plans to transform the vacant school building into a women’s shelter, according to the church that bought the property in 2017, converting the eyesore into a community resource.

St. Matthew Baptist Church Deacon Wendell Hicks said negotiations are still in their early stages, and details are limited at this point, but a prospective buyer has expressed an interest in renovating and repurposing the building.

“We’re not sure exactly how that’s going to pan out, but right now we do have a potential buyer,” he said.

The property sits in a residential area on Sue Cleveland School Road off of Highway 20, less than a mile from Piedmont’s downtown. The former textile community is undergoing its own transformation, growing rapidly as more people flood into Greenville County. According to Piedmont Fire Chief Tracy Wallace, developers have built 1,000 new homes in the area in the past two years.

Hicks said he hopes the blighted property can play a part in Piedmont’s future.

“It’s a good location for something,” he said. “It would be an ideal place for almost anything put there, especially with Piedmont getting ready to grow and expand.”

As it stands now, Lawless said the site has become a draw for homeless people.

This isn’t the first time the church has sought to find a new purpose for the disused school. St. Matthew first bought the close to 6-acre property in 2017 under the leadership of Pastor Zachary Brewster.

After buying the site, the church began working with Indiana-based KCG Development, which advanced plans to build a 90-unit apartment complex offering affordable rents where the school now stands.

Hicks said those efforts lost steam when Brewster left the church several years ago and have since fallen through.

The church had continued to search for a buyer for the property in the wake of Brewster’s departure, and Hicks said the tentative deal to convert the school into a women’s shelter is the latest development in that effort. He said he hopes to be in a position to release the name of the interested buyer and other details about the project in the near future.

“In the next few weeks, we’ll be better equipped to talk about some of those things,” he said.

PIEDMONT — The Piedmont Fire Department is seeking a location for a new fire headquarters, saying its current facility is too small to meet the future needs of its rapidly growing service area.

Fire Chief Tracy Wallace said the department’s current facility is hemmed in on three sides by publicly owned roads and on the fourth by private property, making renovation and expansion an unrealistic option.

Built in 1972, Wallace said the current headquarters was built to accommodate a small volunteer staff, not the seven-firefighters-per-shift department he now oversees. Fire engines and other equipment are packed into storage bays. Wallace said he will need to buy a new truck in the coming years, but at the moment, he has nowhere to put it.

“Currently, on apparatus, I’m good, because I’ve got them stacked in here so I can’t hardly move,” he said. “But I would say in the next five years, we’ll be purchasing a new engine.”

Wallace said the explosive growth throughout both Greenville and Anderson counties is quickly spreading to Piedmont. In the past two years, he said, developers have built 1,000 new homes in the area, with no sign of slowing down.

To keep up with demand, Wallace said the fire department needs to expand.

“We’ve completely outgrown our station,” he said.

The rate of growth has increased demand for the service, but also made it more difficult for the department to find land suitable for the new facility as more properties get bought up.

In its effort to establish a new headquarters, the public service district is turning to Greenville County, asking that it transfer a property about a mile from its current facility into the department’s ownership. The 15-acre site would make for a well-situated new headquarters, Wallace said, with access to Highway 20 and Highway 86, as well as the Saluda River, where the PPSD is responsible for water rescues.

About 7 acres of the tract could not be developed because of flood plain restrictions and a power line easement, Wallace said, but the other 8 acres would be ideal for the new facility.

The property in question — which sits on Highway 20 across from the Grove Station Free Mason Lodge — was once owned by the Greenville County Recreation District before it was absorbed by Greenville County. It is currently empty with no plans for future use.

During an Oct. 13 meeting, Greenville County’s finance committee voted unanimously to recommend approval of the transfer. It will now go to the full County Council.

County Councilmember Rick Bradley, who represents Piedmont and grew up there, said the public service district is a vital resource for the former textile village. Unlike other mill communities throughout Greenville County, Piedmont never incorporated as a town, making the district its only local government entity.

As such, the PPSD serves numerous functions, including keeping Piedmont’s street lights running, operating the local community center and maintaining recreational amenities.

Bradley said he fully supports the county stepping in to help the district’s fire department keep up with demand.

“We can’t do anything else with it and think it would best serve Greenville County citizens as a fire department,” he said. “Because we are completely out of room.”

If the fire department ultimately does move its headquarters, Wallace said it will likely rent out its current facility on Piedmont’s Main Street as a commercial property. Depending on the tenant, the building could play a part in the long-sought revitalization of the mill village’s downtown corridor.

Because the department would retain ownership, it would also leave open the possibility of converting it back into a fire station at some point if needed.