{"id":14111,"date":"2018-03-23T00:02:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T04:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=14111"},"modified":"2021-06-07T22:13:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T02:13:21","slug":"persona-pizza-firenza-pizza-1270-bower-parkway-suite-c-march-2018-temporary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=14111","title":{"rendered":"Persona Pizza \/ Firenza Pizza, 1270 Bower Parkway Suite C: March 2018 (coming?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/18\/03\/p1500017.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/18\/03\/p1500017_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1500017_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1500017_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/18\/03\/p1500018.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/18\/03\/p1500018_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1500018_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1500018_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/18\/03\/p1500019.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/18\/03\/p1500019_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1500019_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1500019_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/18\/03\/p1500020.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/18\/03\/p1500020_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1500020_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1500020_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/18\/03\/p1500021.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/18\/03\/p1500021_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1500021_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1500021_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/18\/03\/p1500022.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/18\/03\/p1500022_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1500022_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1500022_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/18\/03\/p1500023.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/18\/03\/p1500023_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1500023_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1500023_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/18\/03\/p1500024.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/18\/03\/p1500024_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1500024_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1500024_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Firenza<\/i> is an interesting name for a pizza place because it suggests both \"fire\" and Italy (Firenza is the native name for the city we call by the exonym \"Florence\").<\/p>\n<p>Fast casual pizza is now officially a thing, and <i>Firenza<\/i> is one of the chains in that market.  This particular store, in <i>Columbiana Station<\/i> has not been here long.  Commenter Heath reported in November of last year that this slot opened as a <i>Persona Pizza<\/i> and was just converting to <i>Firenza<\/i> at that point.  Actually, <i>Persona<\/i> is the only one of these chains I have been to, and I was happy with my meal at the Woodhill location, so I'm not averse to checking out <i>Firenza<\/i>, <i>Blaze<\/i> or <i>1000 Degrees<\/i>.  Interestingly, as you can see in the pictures, there is a <i>Blaze<\/i> just across the street from this location.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly what is going on here is a bit cryptic, but apparently it is an upfit of some sort and <i>Firenza<\/i> promises to return.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tips to commenters Heath & James R)<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 23 March 2018<\/b> -- Hmm, commenter Heath notes that apparently the place never actually opened as <i>Firenza<\/i> after <i>Persona<\/i> shut down.  Maybe they got distracted by the Lexington opportunity.  Anyway, I'm changing the title line qualifier from \"(temporary)\" to \"(coming?)\".<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 7 June 2021<\/b> -- Now a <i>Brothers & Beer Mexican Restaurant<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/06\/p1700998.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/06\/p1700998_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1700998_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1700998_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>also adding map icon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/1270+Bower+Pkwy,+Columbia,+SC+29212\/\" 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>Firenza is an interesting name for a pizza place because it suggests both \"fire\" and Italy (Firenza is the native name for the city we call by the exonym \"Florence\"). Fast casual pizza is now officially a thing, and Firenza is one of the chains in that market. This particular store, in Columbiana Station has [&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":[2197,460,569,188,27,3],"class_list":["post-14111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-1270-bower-parkway","tag-bower-parkway","tag-columbiana-station","tag-harbison","tag-pizza","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14111","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=14111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}