{"id":19233,"date":"2021-08-23T23:17:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T03:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=19233"},"modified":"2023-01-18T23:24:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T04:24:21","slug":"the-pizza-joint-3246-forest-drive-july-2021-temporary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=19233","title":{"rendered":"The Pizza Joint, 3246 Forest Drive: July 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730203.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730203_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1730203_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1730203_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730204.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730204_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1730204_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1730204_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730205.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730205_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1730205_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1730205_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730206.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730206_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1730206_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1730206_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730207.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730207_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1730207_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1730207_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730209.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730209_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1730209_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1730209_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730210.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730210_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1730210_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1730210_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730211.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730211_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1730211_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1730211_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730212.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730212_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1730212_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1730212_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730213.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730213_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1730213_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1730213_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730214.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730214_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1730214_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1730214_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730215.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730215_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1730215_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1730215_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730216.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730216_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1730216_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1730216_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730217.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730217_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1730217_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1730217_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730218.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730218_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1730218_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1730218_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730220.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730220_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1730220_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1730220_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730221.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730221_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1730221_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1730221_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730222.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730222_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1730222_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1730222_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730223.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730223_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1730223_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1730223_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730224.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/08\/p1730224_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1730224_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1730224_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I used to go to this <i>Pizza Joint<\/i> location fairly often when they were open late on Thursdays for <b>S<\/b>ervice <b>I<\/b>ndustry <b>N<\/b>ight, but when they stopped that, I kind of drifted away.  I had noticed driving by several times lately that they were not open when I would have expected it, but I put it down to covid + staffing, and didn't think much about it until commenter Larry noted that they had had a fire there.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the place last Sunday, I am happy to report that repairs are obviously underway, so hopefully they will be back soon.  The building must be surprisingly durable as it has been a number of different operations since starting life as a <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=524\">Hardee's<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Larry)<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 18 January 2023<\/b>: The place has been sold, so I have removed the \"Temporary\" notation from the title.  The next tenant, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/local\/article271326047.html\">The State<\/a> will be a breakfast\/brunch place: <i>The Vicious Biscuit<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/3246+Forest+Dr,+Columbia,+SC+29204\/\" 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>I used to go to this Pizza Joint location fairly often when they were open late on Thursdays for Service Industry Night, but when they stopped that, I kind of drifted away. I had noticed driving by several times lately that they were not open when I would have expected it, but I put it [&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":[3273,269,96,101,27,3],"class_list":["post-19233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-3246-forest-drive","tag-forest-acres","tag-forest-drive","tag-italian","tag-pizza","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19233","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=19233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}