Southern Wesleyan University / Granby Building, 1801 Charleston Highway: 2008 (Moved) 2 comments
I noticed this fairly large complex not too far from down the Charleston Highway from Piggie Park last weekend.
As it turns out, it is the former home of the Midlands campus for Southern Wesleyan University, a college based in Central. In 2008 the school moved to Pinnacle Point Business Park off of Farrow Road (I'm unclear if it is still there, it seems unusualy difficult to call up an exact address or current status). At the time of the move the motivation was given as
The new location is in Pinnacle Point Business Park. Southern Wesleyan University will occupy more than 16,000 square feet of space in the building.
“Offices will be on the first floor and classroom space will occupy the third floor,” Iddings said.
For the past 18 years, the university has been located in the Granby Building on Charleston Highway in Cayce.
“Although our current space in the Granby Building has served well for many years, an aging facility and shifts in student demographics have convinced us to set out for new territory,” Iddings said. “A great many of our students and faculty have mentioned this need and we have listened.”
Given the (empty) building directory board, I think the owners tried to bring in a number of businesses to replace the University, but apparently in the end it did not work out. To me it appears that the building was in reasonable shape when SWU left, but that years of neglect and vandalism have made it unusable without some major work.
There is a real-estate sign on the property, toppled over, but probably still in force, and likely associated with this 8 year old pitch for the building in better times.
Finally, here is the LoopNet summary on the property.
2 Responses to 'Southern Wesleyan University / Granby Building, 1801 Charleston Highway: 2008 (Moved)'
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Andrew
19 Apr 25 at 9:13 pm
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100% accurate, Andrew. I visited their office here a couple times to pick up prizes that I won.
Ev3nflow
19 Apr 25 at 11:41 pm
It is my understanding that B106.7 (WTCB) and a couple of other radio stations had their station operations out of this building before moving downtown.