{"id":16306,"date":"2019-10-24T23:18:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T03:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=16306"},"modified":"2021-09-13T23:11:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T03:11:23","slug":"kings-pizza-2509-forest-drive-september-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=16306","title":{"rendered":"King's Pizza, 2509 Forest Drive: September 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/10\/p1600228.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/10\/p1600228_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1600228_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1600228_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/10\/p1600229.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/10\/p1600229_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1600229_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1600229_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/10\/p1600230.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/10\/p1600230_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1600230_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1600230_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/10\/p1600231.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/10\/p1600231_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1600231_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1600231_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/10\/p1600233.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/10\/p1600233_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1600233_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1600233_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/10\/p1600234.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/10\/p1600234_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1600234_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1600234_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/10\/p1600235.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/10\/p1600235_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1600235_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1600235_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/10\/p1600236.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/10\/p1600236_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1600236_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1600236_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>King's Pizza<\/i> was the follow-on operation in this spot to <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=15451\">Charlie's Wings & Seafood<\/a>.  They opened sometime in the spring of 2019, and apparently closed in September.  At one time, a number of other locations for <i>King's<\/i> were mooted, but they may have tried to build out too fast, and I don't believe any, with the possible exception of a co-branding with <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=16192\">Planet Pizza<\/a> came to pass.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 4 February 2021<\/b> -- I'm not sure what is going in, but some sort of upfit is being done on the building:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/02\/p1690352.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/02\/p1690352_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1690352_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1690352_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/02\/p1690353.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/02\/p1690353_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1690353_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1690353_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 23 August 2021<\/b> -- Now open as <i>Starbucks<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730229.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730229_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1730229_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1730229_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 13 September 2021<\/b> -- A more attractive of the new <i>Starbucks<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1730683.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/09\/p1730683_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1730683_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1730683_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/2509+Forest+Dr,+Columbia,+SC+29204\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King's Pizza was the follow-on operation in this spot to Charlie's Wings &#038; Seafood. They opened sometime in the spring of 2019, and apparently closed in September. At one time, a number of other locations for King's were mooted, but they may have tried to build out too fast, and I don't believe any, with [&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":[1771,96,27,3],"class_list":["post-16306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-2509-forest-drive","tag-forest-drive","tag-pizza","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16306","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=16306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}