The College’s July 15, 2026 notice of intent to award names IPW Construction Group LLC for the Project 205 geophysics-enabling stage (H15-9689-PD-A). This is a stage-specific notice, not proof of an executed contract or authorization to begin work.
Read the official notice. Ask the College to identify the current contractor, executed contract, Notice to Proceed, work scope, and project contact. The older construction-team references below should be read with their dates and confirmed for the particular work involved.
You can ask the City and the College to leave the people buried at 106 Coming Street where they are. You do not have to be a CEC member or prove a family connection to write, call, or ask questions as a concerned member of the public.
Tell the Mayor and City Council: “I oppose removing the people buried at 106 Coming Street. Please preserve the burial ground in place.” Ask the Clerk how to submit your objection and request to speak at an appropriate meeting.
Write to the College’s Board of Trustees: Ask it to change the plans to protect the burial ground. Request a written answer.
Ask for a public record of your concern: Request that your message reach the responsible decision-makers and be included in the relevant decision record. Keep your own copy.
The contact details are below. Confirm meeting rules, speaker sign-up, and deadlines with the office involved. You can contact officials without waiting for a formal comment period, but a letter does not replace any required filing or deadline. This page does not announce an open formal comment period.
Support preservation of the burial ground at 106 Coming Street, Charleston. Direct your request to the office or project team responsible for the issue. The requests below express this campaign’s position.
Ask: Preserve the burial ground in place and oppose approval of grave removal.
Mayor William Cogswell: Cogswellw@charleston-sc.gov · 843-724-7396
Clerk of Council: 843-724-3727 · 80 Broad Street, Charleston, SC 29401
Ask the Clerk how to submit written comments, find the relevant agenda, or request to speak. Confirm the meeting’s procedures and deadlines before attending.
Mayor’s official contact page · Clerk of Council and meeting links
Ask: Support preservation in place, review Project 205 spending and oversight, and oppose additional funding or financing approvals that would disturb the burial ground.
Find your legislators on the official state website. Select each member’s official contact information. If you use the address lookup, enter your address only on that official website; this campaign does not collect it.
Ask: Change development plans to preserve the burial ground and the people buried there in place. Request a written response and distribution to the full Board.
Board office, through Executive Secretary Elizabeth Kassebaum: kassebaume@cofc.edu · 843-953-5500
Official Board directory
Ask: Support preservation in place through historic-preservation review and recommendations. Explain the current review status, responses to new evidence, and the safeguards being recommended.
Department main line: 803-896-6196. Ask for the State Historic Preservation Office and the Coming Street / Project 205 review contact.
Official SHPO information
Ask: Explain the current project approvals, how applicable conditions are being checked, and how the public can submit concerns about burial-ground protection.
The agency’s Project 205 page lists Sara Barbagallo as the Coastal Zone Consistency contact: sara.barbagallo@des.sc.gov · 843-953-8819.
Official Project 205 records and contact
The older comment period shown on that page closed November 28, 2025. Ask the agency about the current submission process; do not assume a formal comment period is open.
Ask: How was preservation in place evaluated? What methods and safeguards apply before disturbance? Who receives discovery reports, and how are concerns escalated?
Charleston office: 843-884-1234. Ask for the Coming Street project team.
Official Terracon office contact · College description of the work and reports
The College’s August 4, 2025 presentation names Rodgers/Thompson-Turner as the construction firm. Confirm current responsibilities and the project manager with the College before directing a specific site concern.
Rodgers Builders, Charleston regional office: 854-246-0600 · Official office contact
Thompson Turner Construction: Official company website · Group contact page · main office 803-773-8005
Ask: Identify the current construction and demolition teams, work scope, monitoring arrangements, and the person responsible for receiving burial-ground concerns before work advances. Contractors are project participants; they are separate from public reviewing agencies.
“Please preserve the burial ground at 106 Coming Street in place. I oppose removal of the people buried there. Please explain your office’s role, the current decisions and safeguards, and how my concerns will be considered. I would appreciate a written response.”
Use your own words, identify the office you are contacting, and keep a copy. Share only the personal details you choose to include in correspondence.
Official contact sources checked October 18, 2026. Construction-team identification is attributed to the dated College presentation; current project assignments need confirmation. Listing an office does not imply endorsement of this campaign.