In 2007, the project garnered renewed interest from the South Carolina Heritage Corridor. Because of this, funding was provided to gather oral histories of  “The Black Pioneers” who lived and worked on Church Street. Their memories were chronicled in the documentary film “Trading Church Street: Pride, Prejudice and a Parking Lot,” which premiered in 2008. Interest stimulated by the documentary spurred development plans to build a park on the original Church Street site