{"id":13482,"date":"2017-10-18T00:12:28","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T04:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=13482"},"modified":"2018-07-09T23:27:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T03:27:11","slug":"prestige-appliance-3905-fernandina-road-7-september-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=13482","title":{"rendered":"Prestige Appliance, 3905 Fernandina Road: 7 September 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460633.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460633_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460633_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460633_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460634.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460634_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460634_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460634_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460635.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460635_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460635_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460635_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460637.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460637_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460637_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460637_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460638.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460638_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460638_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460638_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460640.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460640_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460640_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460640_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460642.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460642_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460642_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460642_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460644.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460644_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460644_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460644_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460645.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460645_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460645_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460645_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460646.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460646_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460646_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460646_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460647.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460647_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460647_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460647_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460648.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460648_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460648_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460648_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460649.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460649_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460649_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460649_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460650.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460650_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460650_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460650_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460651.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460651_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460651_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460651_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460652.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460652_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460652_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460652_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460653.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460653_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460653_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460653_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460654.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/10\/p1460654_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1460654_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1460654_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I blogged the relocation of <i>Prestige Appliance<\/i> from Sunset Boulevard to Fernandina Road in <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=10371\">November 2014<\/a> when they moved into the former <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=7742\">Fireplace Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Around the same time, they were building and opening a new store in Augusta.  I'm guessing that they tried to do too much at the same time and got overextended.  At any rate, as reported in <a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.augusta.com\/news\/business\/2017-09-12\/prestige-appliance-files-bankruptcy\">The Augusta Chronicle<\/a>, they declared <i>Chapter 7<\/i> (simple liquidation) bamkruptcy on 7 September 2017.<\/p>\n<p>I say \"simple\" liquidation, but apparently it is actually a bit more complicated than that since as you can see here, the merchandise and fleet are still intact at this location.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter John)<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 15 January 2018<\/b> -- Drove by on 13 Jan 2018, and they were having a liquidation:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/18\/01\/p1480773.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/18\/01\/p1480773_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1480773_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1480773_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/18\/01\/p1480774.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/18\/01\/p1480774_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1480774_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1480774_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/18\/01\/p1480776.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/18\/01\/p1480776_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1480776_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1480776_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 9 July 2018<\/b> -- Not a great picture (shot from I-26), but now <i>Chocolate Factory & Coffee Shoppe<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/18\/07\/p1530496.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/18\/07\/p1530496_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1530496_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1530496_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I blogged the relocation of Prestige Appliance from Sunset Boulevard to Fernandina Road in November 2014 when they moved into the former Fireplace Center. Around the same time, they were building and opening a new store in Augusta. I'm guessing that they tried to do too much at the same time and got overextended. At [&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":[1673,160,379,187,174,4],"class_list":["post-13482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-3905-fernandina-road","tag-appliances","tag-bankrupt","tag-fernandina-road","tag-i-26","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13482","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=13482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}