Suber Commons
Closed1488-1494 W. Wade Hampton Blvd, Greer, SC 29650
Area Description
Greer is a city in the Greenville and Spartanburg counties in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 35,308, making it the 14th-most populous city in South Carolina. Greer is included in the Greenville-Anderson-Greer, South Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, South Carolina Combined Statistical Area in Upstate South Carolina. Greer was named for James Manning Greer, who was Scottish. Many of his descendants still reside in the region. James Manning Greer was a descendant of John Greer Sr., who surveyed his land in Laurens County in 1750. John and his family were already in Laurens County, prior to the Greer passengers who arrived aboard the ship The Falls in 1764. John, Sr.'s great grandson, James Manning Greer, settled his family near Greenville in an area that eventually became known as Greer's Station. Greer is located 12 miles northeast of Greenville and 17 miles west of Spartanburg and has a total area of 25.56 square miles. Greer has three lakes: Apalache Lake, Lake Robinson, and Lake Cunningham. The South Tyger River runs through the northern part of Greer, part of the Broad River watershed. Greer is adjacent to Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport (GSP), which serves Greenville, Spartanburg, and Upstate South Carolina. Greer is also the site of the largest BMW manufacturing facility in North America. BMW's Greer plant employs about 11,000 people, and has attracted dozens of suppliers in South Carolina, providing jobs for more than 12,000 people. Greer is home to the South Carolina Inland Port, an intermodal facility that receives and sends containers by rail to the Port of Charleston. The city is also home to the National Weather Service office that serves Upstate South Carolina, Northeastern Georgia and Southwestern North Carolina including the Charlotte Metropolitan Area. Greer is served by the Greenville–Spartanburg International Airport Roger Milliken Field, which in 2023 handled over 1.2 million passengers. The airport is a commercial Class C airport, with cargo and passenger facilities. Greer is also served by Amtrak, the national passenger rail system, which operates to both Greenville and Spartanburg. Greer is the location of Inland Port Greer, one of two inland ports in South Carolina, built to handle containerized goods. Inland Port Greer is served by Norfolk Southern and connects Greer to the Port of Charleston. Travel and commerce are further served by highways and interstates connecting Greer to the larger southeast. One two-digit Interstate highway runs through Greer. Interstate 85 passes 5 miles south of the city center, with access from Exits 57 through 60. I-85 leads northeast 90 miles to Charlotte, North Carolina, and southwest 154 miles to Atlanta. U.S. Route 29 runs through Greer, connecting Greenville and Spartanburg. South Carolina Highway 14 and South Carolina Highway 290 both run through Greer. SC 14 leads north 18 miles to Landrum, near the North Carolina border, and south 16 miles to Simpsonville, while SC 290 leads east 5 miles to Duncan and northwest 13 miles to U.S. Route 25 north of Travelers Rest.