{"id":2351,"date":"2010-07-19T01:04:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T06:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2351"},"modified":"2011-05-24T23:39:39","modified_gmt":"2011-05-25T04:39:39","slug":"speedee-oil-change-tune-up-harbison-auto-care-quick-lube-267-harbison-boulevard-spring-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2351","title":{"rendered":"SpeeDee Oil Change & Tune-Up \/ Harbison Auto Care & Quick Lube, 267 Harbison Boulevard: Spring 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Closed For Renovation<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is the dreaded Closed For Remodeling<\/i> trope. It seems to me that the majority of businesses that sport such a sign, never re-open. There are a few exceptions<\/a>, but in general it seems to me that getting into a situation where there's no money coming in, plus lots of expenses is bad news. The right way to remodel is to keep the store open the whole time, even if you have to put the cash registers in the parking lot for a few days. That's how the Forest Drive \/ I-77 Wal-Mart is doing it, and while it's been a big mess, they've had money coming in every day.<\/p>\n

Anyway, as far as I can tell, this business started as a SpeeDee<\/i> and then transitioned into an independant but similar business. This Irmo businesses web page<\/a> dates back to March, so I'm assuming the place was open that late. The building was built in 1970 according to Loopnet<\/a>, so it may well have been a couple of things before.<\/p>\n

I think that apart from the remodeling trauma, Harbison may just be a bad location for a business like this. Traffic is so high, that I would never think of going there for something I could get elsewhere on a less busy road.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

UPDATE 24 May 2011<\/b> -- Open again as \"Express Oil Change & Service Center\":<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Closed For Renovation This is the dreaded Closed For Remodeling trope. It seems to me that the majority of businesses that sport such a sign, never re-open. There are a few exceptions, but in general it seems to me that getting into a situation where there's no money coming in, plus lots of expenses is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13,104,182,198],"class_list":["post-2351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-cars","tag-harbison-boulevard","tag-irmo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351","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=2351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}