North of this intersection, US Highway 29 (US 29) continues as Mills Avenue into downtown Greenville.

At this point, I-185 leaves the Greenville city limits and enters Golden Grove.

The Southern Connector was constructed as a public–private partnership between the South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) and Interwest Carolina Transportation Group, LLC, a development team that included a not-for-profit corporation called Connector 2000 Association, Inc.

They were responsible for financing, designing, constructing, operating, and maintaining the road during this period and the toll revenue would be used to pay them for these efforts.

[6] By 2007, the Connector 2000 Association was having financial difficulties because ridership on the toll road was not meeting original estimates.

In late 2007, the association began looking for a concessionaire to take over the operation and financial liability of the toll road.

[7] By early 2008, C2A had received a default notice from their bond trustee[8] In January 2010, the bond trustee missed an interest payment,[9] and the C2A was more than $8 million (equivalent to $10.9 million in 2023[10]) behind in its payments to SCDOT for the maintenance and license fees under their agreement.

[12] The corporation emerged from bankruptcy on March 28, 2011, by restructuring bond debt and their concession and maintenance agreement with SCDOT.

[17] Palmetto Pass is the only form of electronic toll collection accepted on the Southern Connector.