{"id":18305,"date":"2021-01-23T00:18:20","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T05:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=18305"},"modified":"2021-01-23T00:28:10","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T05:28:10","slug":"books-a-million-10125-frontage-road-suite-18-inlet-square-murrells-inlet-spring-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=18305","title":{"rendered":"Books A Million, 10125 Frontage Road Suite 18 (Inlet Square, Murrells Inlet): Spring 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/01\/p1670404.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/01\/p1670404_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1670404_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1670404_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/01\/p1670399.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/01\/p1670399_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1670399_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1670399_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/01\/p1670401.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/01\/p1670401_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1670401_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1670401_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/01\/p1670402.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/01\/p1670402_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1670402_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1670402_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/01\/p1670403.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/01\/p1670403_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1670403_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1670403_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It's been a while since I've mentioned <a href=\"\">Inlet Square<\/a>, the hard-luck south strand mall where US-17 splits in Murrells Inlet.<\/p>\n<p>I noticed during an October visit that almost the last remaining major store in the mall, <i>Books A Million<\/i> had closed.  That's a shame as over the pre-kindle years I certainly had my share of lattes there while browsing the aisles.  In recent times it has been somewhat as <i>Barnes & Noble<\/i> is to <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=richland-mall\">Richland Mall<\/a>, a rare national store hanging on in a nearly empty space. (Curiously both malls still have a <i>Belk<\/i> as well).<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbtw.com\/local-news\/inlet-square-mall-businesses-hopeful-for-new-plans-after-covid-19\/\">WBTW article<\/a> from 13 May notes in passing that the store \"recently closed\" while describing what sounds rather like a \"flea mall\" concept of local stores, with varying hours moving in to the mall's vacant spaces.  I have yet to go inside to see how that is working out.  This particular space is now a church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/10125+Frontage+Rd+Suite+18,+Murrells+Inlet,+SC+29576\/\" 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>It's been a while since I've mentioned Inlet Square, the hard-luck south strand mall where US-17 splits in Murrells Inlet. I noticed during an October visit that almost the last remaining major store in the mall, Books A Million had closed. That's a shame as over the pre-kindle years I certainly had my share of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[26,6,1143,283,16,4],"class_list":["post-18305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-books","tag-grand-strand","tag-inlet-square","tag-murrells-inlet","tag-out-of-area","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18305","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=18305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}