Columbia Closings   What's not in Columbia anymore

I know I ate in this place once in 2024. I thought it was fine, nothing special, but certainly not bad. Given that Google reviews say it has been closed for around 7 months, I guess that must have been in the Spring or Summer of last year.

I'm a little fuzzy on the history of this place. I know it was a D's Wings, a Casa Linda and an El Patron before this, but I think I may have missed another Mexican restaurant somewhere in the rotation.

I do find the name a bit interesting as I associate Garibaldi with the foundation of modern Italy, not Mexico.

I noticed this vacant space in Columbiana Centre on my recent visit to check out the Forever 21 closing. It's a fairly generic name and google does not turn up any information about this particular storefront that I can see, so about all I can say is that it was there, and now it's not. Given the size perhaps it was a nail spa.

Since the sign is still up I suspect it hasn't been gone that long, so I'm just going with a "2024" date.

This FedEx Office location has moved from this outparcel in the Target wing of Columbiana Station to another outparcel of Columbiana Centre next to Wells Fargo and across from Men's Warehouse.

I never went to this particular location, but in general have found Kinkos/FedEx to be a bit more convenient than the competitor UPS locations. I print odds and ends from PDF at the Forest Drive location fairly often.

Not sure exactly what would go in here next. It's not set up as as restaurant, so that limits it a bit.

(Hat tip to commenter Gypsie)

This Advance Auto Parts was almost at the corner of Two Notch and Beltline -- in fact its parking lot connects with Murphy Express which *is* at the corner, and I have found it is usually a better way to get in and out of Murphy's than their actual entrances.

I believe I was only actually in this store once, probably about a year ago when I needed some jumper cables. I considered what they had to be very over-priced, but not enough so that I wanted to drive down to Wal-Mart, so I went ahead and bought them (they worked fine).

I'm not sure exactly when they closed, but it's quite recent, and I believe this month. Of corse a number of other Advance Auto Parts outlets remain in the area.

Looking at the WikiPedia page for Forever 21 is somewhat involved, but the upshot seems to be the old story of growing too fast and getting ahead of their skis, and then trying to retrench with it never quite working out. At any rate, there is a bankruptcy in there, a surprising tie-in with Shein, and a current drastic downsizing which is to see 215 locations close by April of 2025.

This Columbiana Centre storefront is one of them, and the closing sale is well underway.

The maill itself seemed pretty busy, and reminded me why I very seldom set foot in one these days.

(Hat tip to commenter Mall Guy)

I noticed this place was boarded-up as I drove past, so I turned around and took a closer look. As far as I can tell from the Google reviews, Entity Motors closed up in the time frame of "a year ago", having received mixed reviews.

The place is a solid looking older style house that would be attractive with a bit of TLC, so perhaps some sort of professional office will move in eventually. The LoopNet information is here.

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I was turning around in a parking lot on Calhoun several weeks ago, and noticed that the business associated with it had moved.

Palmetto Biotech Prosthetics is now at 2419 Devine Street, and you can see their new building at the link.

Commenter Andrew pointed out that I totally uploaded the wrong pictures on my closing for the Woodhill Party City, where I mistakenly put pictures of this location. The right thing to do would be to upload the correct pictures to that post, but now that I am specifically looking for them, of course I can't find them. So I'm going to move that post back to draft until I locate (or retake) the shots, and move those pictures to here.

So, after saying all that, I don't have much more to add. This is another Party City closing as the chain shuts down. This one is in the part of Columbiana Station (which is actually two seperately managed parcels, I believe) which abuts Harbison Boulevard and is anchored by Target.

I had gone by this Party City around New Years I think, at any rate after the chain closing was announced, to get some pictures, but at that time it appeared to be in full normal operation. Now however all the closing signage is up.

This particular store moved here from Parklane in December 2022, so they have had around a two yaear run.

UPDATE 25 February 2025: Previously when I posted this closing, I had the wrong pictures (of the Harbison location). The pictures are now actually of the Woodhill location, and I am republishing the post.

UPDATE 5 March 2025 -- Here are the shots from 22 December 2024 that I couldn't find before: