{"id":21685,"date":"2023-03-27T22:38:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T02:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=21685"},"modified":"2023-08-31T23:19:20","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T03:19:20","slug":"urban-air-1120-1130-bower-parkway-never-opened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=21685","title":{"rendered":"Urban Air, 1120\/1130 Bower Parkway: Never Opened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/08\/p1850014.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/08\/p1850014_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1850014_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1850014_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/08\/p1850015.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/08\/p1850015_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1850015_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1850015_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870231.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870231_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1870231_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1870231_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870232.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870232_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1870232_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1870232_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870233.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870233_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1870233_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1870233_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870234.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870234_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1870234_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1870234_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870235.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870235_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1870235_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1870235_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870236.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870236_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1870236_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1870236_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870237.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870237_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1870237_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1870237_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870238.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870238_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1870238_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1870238_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870185.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870185_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1870185_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1870185_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870186.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870186_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1870186_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1870186_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870187.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870187_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1870187_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1870187_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870188.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870188_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1870188_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1870188_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870189.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870189_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1870189_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1870189_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Urban Air<\/i> was to open a trampoline & \"adventure\" park in the old <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=12843\">H.H. Gregg<\/a> & <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=12506\">Steinmart<\/a> spaces in <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=columbiana-station\">Columbiana Station<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=bower-parkway\">Bower Parkway<\/a> sometime in the Winter of 2019\/2020.  You can see the announcement on the company site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbanair.com\/news\/urban-air-adventure-park-to-open-in-columbia-south-carolina-in-the-fall-of-2019\/\">here<\/a> and the coresponding story in <i>The State<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/local\/article237969069.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, these things always run a bit behind, and as it turned out, early 2020 was possibly the worst time since the Depression to open such a venture, and it never happened, although they were still trying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/business\/article249464920.html\">as late as 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is still a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UrbanAirColumbia\/\">Facebook page<\/a> for the proposed attraction, but looking inside the two storefronts, either nothing has happened (which seems unlikely), or all the infrastructure has been ripped out.  In the meantime, <i>Altitude<\/i> has opened on <i>Garners Ferry<\/i>, and <i>Stars & Stripes<\/i> on <i>Lake Murray Boulevard<\/i>, so I don't hold out much hope for anything happening here.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Lone Wolf)<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 31 August 2023<\/b>: Found two pictures with the branding on the storefront and added them in positions 1 & 2.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/1120+Bower+Pkwy,+Columbia,+SC+29212\/\" 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>Urban Air was to open a trampoline &#038; \"adventure\" park in the old H.H. Gregg &#038; Steinmart spaces in Columbiana Station on Bower Parkway sometime in the Winter of 2019\/2020. You can see the announcement on the company site here and the coresponding story in The State here. Well, these things always run a bit [&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":[2175,2244,149,460,569,3708,188,3078],"class_list":["post-21685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-1120-bower-parkway","tag-1130-bower-parkway","tag-amusement","tag-bower-parkway","tag-columbiana-station","tag-go-carts","tag-harbison","tag-trampolines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21685","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=21685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}