Columbia Closings   What's not in Columbia anymore

I wasn't aware of this Triangle City furniture & decor shop, but commenter Lavender sends this link to their debut publicity from April of 2024, and here is their ribbon-cutting (oddly later than their opening).

As of now their Facebook is still up, but the web-site is gone.

(Hat tip to commenter Lavender)

I had my goto Starbucks coffee: The Grande Latte many times at Harbison Court during my peak coffee years, but not at this store. Once upon a time, the plaza was home to Barnes & Noble, and I would get my fix hanging out there in that long vanished era where closing time was 11pm.

This particular Starbucks I think I only stopped at once, some years ago. As commenter, Mitch notes, the parking lot here is not well designed and the front area where the store was is a particular hassle as I found once more taking these pictures.

The closure does not leave Harbison 'buckless, as I believe there is still one in the Target down the road, and there are alternate options such as Panera. You can read the story in The State or Post & Courier

(Hat tip to commenter Andrew)

UPDATE 4 May 2026: Fix tag typo.

This little building on Shakespeare Road has been a number of restaurants over the years, several of which have featured here (some as 6301 Shakespeare, as there seems to be some confusion about the street address). This particular one had not, and seems to have gone in around 2011, and was gone by November of 2014 by which time it was Shakespeare Fish Market, which itself was gone by 2015.

Currently the building hosts a used car lot.

As I recall, there was some drama in starting up this place, Brunches had been on Knox Abbott Drive in the old Shrimper location, and there was some sort of ownership split, with the Knox Abbott location becoming Just Us Cafe and some of the team establishing The Original Brunches in the Terry's Diner location on Leaphart Road.

From Google reviews, it appears that The Original Brunches closed sometime in 2024.

UPDATE 21 April 2026: Found two more pictures.

I hope everyone got through Tax Day without the shears cutting too deep!

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Well here's an interesting case: The Island Bar & Grill closed while I was avoiding it, and a new place opened, and closed all before I noticed it due to staying away...

This corner slot in Village Shops has been a number of places over the years. One I recall specifically is Villa Katrina, a Mexican eatery which, I believe, still has a location in Myrtle Beach. Anyway, the Island Bar & Grill had been there a number of years, and was an OK local option for the most part with decent burgers and other bar food, and a nice deck when the weather wasn't sweltering. That gradually started to change in recent years, leading to a number of sub-par dining experiences to the point the the place finally got taken off the list when I went there with my college room-mate & his wife and they lacked half the ingredients for her order without ever mentioning that fact until plopping it, basically inedible, on the table in front of her. After a previous visit with esentially no service, that was the final straw. You can see similar experiences in the Google reviews.

Anyway, while I was avoiding it like the plague, the place apparently closed around Spring of 2025 (Hey Google! -- You obviously know the exact date for every review, what's with this "A Year Ago" stuff?), and re-opened as Pawleys Back Deck, something I did not know until I wondered about the lack of cars in the parking lot and went to take a look. The reviews for that operation are somewhat better, but they seem to have left business in an involuntary fashion at the end of March.

By the way, if you are looking at the plaza sign, Tuscany Bistro closed at least a year ago if not more and was replaced with a Fish Camp.

This little building on Fernandina Road is still there, although apparently the state was not good at the time of these pictures back in 2011, and has apparently been a number of things since the Wellness Center left, though from Google Streetview the only signs I can read well enough to be sure are for a daycare center (or possibly two daycare centers).

As for the Wellness Center, it was a "Chiropractic, Nutrition & Acupuncture" clinic, and apparently either reflagged as, or sold the practice to Heinen Chiropractic Center. You can see their last archived web page here, and Heinen's first one here.

As far as I can tell from Google StreetView, this old-school auto upholstery operation was here, with its original building ad detailing from 1956 up until around 2016. At that time it was taken over by Studio 2LR,

a boutique architecture and interior design firm

who elected to keep the vintage paint-job, though they have apparently added some neat robitechture on the back side of the building.

This place does not have a lot of google reviews, so it's hard to say when it closed, but judging by Google Streetview, probably around 2015. The building itself seemes to have been razed around 2020, and the lot is now empty, so it's too late to get your salmon fix.

These pictures come from April 2010.