{"id":22411,"date":"2023-10-02T22:56:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T02:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=22411"},"modified":"2025-03-27T21:17:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T01:17:24","slug":"s-mart-436-blossom-street-fall-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=22411","title":{"rendered":"S-Mart, 436 Blossom Street: Fall 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/10\/p1910095.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/10\/p1910095_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1910095_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1910095_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/10\/p1910096.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/10\/p1910096_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1910096_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1910096_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/10\/p1910097.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/10\/p1910097_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1910097_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1910097_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was driving by this weekend, and noticed that the <i>S-Mart<\/i> convenience store & gas station on the Southwest corner of <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=blossom-street\">Blossom<\/a> & <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=huger-street\">Huger<\/a> was closed.  I didn't notice until I was sitting at the light, so I didn't have a chance to park and look around, but from the pile of dirt and scuff marks, it looks like they have already taken out the tanks.<\/p>\n<p>Normally I would expect something to go into this high-traffic spot quickly, but I proved to be wrong about the catty-cornered lot with the former <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=12214\">Columbia Antique Mall \/ Chic Antique & Co.<\/a>, which closed in 2016.  That struck me as a prime site, but now six years later, the space is still vacant.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 27 March 2025<\/b> -- The new building is well on its way up:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/03\/p2030559.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/03\/p2030559_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2030559_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2030559_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/436+Blossom+St,+Columbia,+SC+29201\/\" 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 was driving by this weekend, and noticed that the S-Mart convenience store &#038; gas station on the Southwest corner of Blossom &#038; Huger was closed. I didn't notice until I was sitting at the light, so I didn't have a chance to park and look around, but from the pile of dirt and scuff [&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":[3863,180,305,267,461,3862,4],"class_list":["post-22411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-436-blossom-street","tag-blossom-street","tag-convenience","tag-gas","tag-huger-street","tag-s-mart","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22411","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=22411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}