{"id":1947,"date":"2010-05-05T01:18:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-05T06:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2021-06-19T15:51:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T19:51:16","slug":"hardees-restaurant-11-901-harden-street-3-may-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1947","title":{"rendered":"Hardee's Restaurant #11, 901 Harden Street: 3 May 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This closing has been talked about long enough that I actually got these photos last year, knowing I would have to deploy them eventually. This Hardee's<\/i> has been a fixture in the old Five Point's Sears<\/a> parking lot for years. I think it may even date back to when Gene's Pig & Chick<\/a> across College Street would have been its competition. (It certainly does not date back to Hardee's original space-age designs such as at Silver City<\/i> or The Eggroll Station<\/a> though).<\/p>\n

This story from The State<\/a> last year tells how the Hardee's<\/i> is going to be replaced with a Chick-Fil-A<\/i>, and how it will all be carefully landscaped in accordance to the new Five Points streetscaping guidelines. Color me unimpressed. You have only to compare US-17 as it passes through Mount Pleasant where everything is set-back so far and blends in so blandly that you can't even tell you are passing stores that want to sell you something with US-17 in the Myrtle Beach area where even failed and vacant storefronts are exuberant to see how guidelines can suck the life out of a road. Not to mention this quote:<\/p>\n

\"Chick-fil-A is a business of high quality and we anticipate this development will add great character to the already diverse and eclectic makeup of Five Points,\" she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Of really? Replacing one national fast-food chain (which is actually currently on the rebound) with another national fast-food chain will add character and diversity to Five Points? I guess character and diversity aren't what they once were..<\/p>\n

(Hat tips to commenters Tom, Mike D, Larry & Jim)<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 21 May 2010<\/b> -- here are some pictures taken after the closing:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 8 June 2010<\/b> -- Well, it's gone:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 24 July 2010<\/b> -- The new sign is going up on 9 July 2010:<\/p>\n

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The new sign on 23 July 2010:<\/p>\n

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I have no idea how (or why) Office Depot<\/i> got themselves on the Chick-Fil-A<\/i> sign. Yes, office Depot<\/i> is in the same plaza, but it has its own sign on its own building..<\/p>\n

UPDATE 6 November 2010<\/b> -- The Chick-Fil-A is open:<\/p>\n

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<\/a\n\nUPDATE 3 Dec 2010<\/b> -- A somewhat better view from across Harden Street:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 19 July 2021<\/b>: Updating tags and adding map icon.<\/p>\n

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This closing has been talked about long enough that I actually got these photos last year, knowing I would have to deploy them eventually. This Hardee's has been a fixture in the old Five Point's Sears parking lot for years. I think it may even date back to when Gene's Pig & Chick across College […]<\/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":[3275,151,115,123,152,150,122,3],"class_list":["post-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-901-harden-street","tag-chick-fil-a","tag-college-street","tag-five-points","tag-hamburgers","tag-hardees","tag-harden-street","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","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=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}