{"id":13412,"date":"2017-10-05T00:07:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T04:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=13412"},"modified":"2021-05-25T23:23:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T03:23:15","slug":"regions-bank-5490-forest-drive-summer-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=13412","title":{"rendered":"SouthTrust \/ Regions Bank, 5490 Forest Drive: Summer 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460046.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460046_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460046_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460046_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460047.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460047_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460047_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460047_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460048.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460048_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460048_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460048_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460049.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460049_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460049_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460049_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460050.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460050_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460050_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460050_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460051.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460051_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460051_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460051_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460052.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460052_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460052_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460052_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460053.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460053_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460053_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460053_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460054.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460054_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460054_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460054_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460055.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460055_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460055_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460055_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460056.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460056_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460056_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460056_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460057.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460057_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460057_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460057_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460060.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460060_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460060_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460060_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460061.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460061_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460061_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460061_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On my way to an appointment recently, I noticed that the <i>Regions Bank<\/i> branch in <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=east-forest-plaza\">East Forest Plaza<\/a> (the <i>Wal-Mart<\/i> shopping center at I-77) is now vacant.  This is another sign of how banks are continuing to shed branches as more and more business is done over the Internet.  I can see why this one was a candidate, as the place is rather hard to get in and out of.  If you are not already going into the shopping center you might well think twice.<\/p>\n<p>With the recent closure of the <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=12853\">Sandhill branch<\/a>, I believe this leaves <i>Regions<\/i> locally with only the main location on Gervais and a Harbision branch.  Hmm, actually I don't see the Harbison location on their web site, so that may have closed too -- I'll have to take a look.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 10 October 2017<\/b> -- Adding <i>SouthTrust<\/i> to the post title based on the comments.  <i>SouthTrust<\/i> was acquired by <i>Wachovia<\/i> in 2004, so that would have been gone by 2005. <\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 20 January 2021<\/b> -- This building has been torn down and something new is going up there now:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/01\/p1690127.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/01\/p1690127_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1690127_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1690127_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/01\/p1690129.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/01\/p1690129_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1690129_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1690129_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/01\/p1690130.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/01\/p1690130_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1690130_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1690130_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/01\/p1690131.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/01\/p1690131_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1690131_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1690131_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/01\/p1690132.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/01\/p1690132_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1690132_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1690132_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also adding a map icon.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 25 May 2021<\/b>: The new building is now <i>Time To Shine Car Wash<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/05\/p1700624.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/05\/p1700624_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1700624_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1700624_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/05\/p1700625.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/05\/p1700625_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1700625_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1700625_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/05\/p1700626.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/05\/p1700626_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1700626_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1700626_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/05\/p1700627.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/05\/p1700627_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1700627_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1700627_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/05\/p1700628.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/05\/p1700628_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1700628_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1700628_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/5490+Forest+Drive,+Columbia,+SC+29206\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my way to an appointment recently, I noticed that the Regions Bank branch in East Forest Plaza (the Wal-Mart shopping center at I-77) is now vacant. This is another sign of how banks are continuing to shed branches as more and more business is done over the Internet. I can see why this one [&hellip;]<\/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":[2377,329,1743,269,162],"class_list":["post-13412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-5490-forest-drive","tag-bank","tag-east-forest-plaza","tag-forest-acres","tag-i-77"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13412","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=13412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}