{"id":12031,"date":"2016-09-28T00:26:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T04:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=12031"},"modified":"2018-06-25T20:16:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-26T00:16:15","slug":"bi-lo-4711-forest-drive-1-october-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=12031","title":{"rendered":"BI-LO, 4711 Forest Drive #1: October 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As above, this BI-LO<\/i> opened on 15 November 2013, giving them about a three year run after taking over from The Pig<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I don't understand the rationale for closing this particular store, as it seems to have some pretty big plus factors to me. The groceries in this area are Kroger<\/i> on Forest at Beltline, Trader Joe's<\/i> at 4516 Forest, Fresh Market<\/i> and Publix<\/i> at Trenholm Plaza, and arguably Wal-Mart<\/i> at Forest & I-77. Of those, Fresh Market<\/i> and Trader Joe's<\/i> are upscale specialty stores that are a different market than a general grocery, Publix<\/i> is cramped and has bad parking, Kroger<\/i> has bad parking and so-so location, and Wal-Mart<\/i> .. is Wal-Mart<\/i>. Against that, this spot has good parking, a large layout, and lots of built-in customers as soon as the re-purposing of Cardinal Newman<\/a> is complete.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, BI-LO<\/i> is not in the most robost shape, and has presumably thought about all these issues.<\/p>\n

At any rate, the sell-off was almost complete when I went in on Saturday 24 September. Remaining were only two endcaps of odd frozen goods, and one shelf of deeply discounted (and not particularly popular) items near the registers. The rest of the store was already a hollow shell.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 9 August 2017<\/b> -- The teaser sign for Lowes<\/i> is up on the plaza sign board and the store itself has now been designated a construction area (though I have seen no activity as yet):<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 31 October 2017<\/b> -- As mentioned in the comments, construction for Lowe's<\/i> has begun, and the building is basically ripped open:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 17 February 2018<\/b> -- Starting to look like a Lowes<\/i>:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 19 March 2018<\/b> -- Shaping up:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 25 June 2018<\/b> -- Nearly there:<\/p>\n

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As above, this BI-LO opened on 15 November 2013, giving them about a three year run after taking over from The Pig. I don't understand the rationale for closing this particular store, as it seems to have some pretty big plus factors to me. The groceries in this area are Kroger on Forest at Beltline, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[1210,269,96,35,143,4],"class_list":["post-12031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-4711-forest-drive","tag-forest-acres","tag-forest-drive","tag-forest-park","tag-groceries","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}