{"id":24528,"date":"2025-06-16T22:08:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T02:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=24528"},"modified":"2026-02-06T21:59:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T02:59:25","slug":"sonic-drive-in-312-columbia-avenue-december-2022-moved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=24528","title":{"rendered":"Sonic Drive-In, 312 Columbia Avenue: December 2022 (Moved)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/06\/p2050288.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/06\/p2050288_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2050288_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2050288_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/06\/p2050289.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/06\/p2050289_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2050289_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2050289_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I noticed this vacant <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=sonic-drive-in\">Sonic<\/a> last weekend in <a href=\"\">Lexington<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/local\/article271281077.html\">The State<\/a>, it closed around the end of December 2022 in order for the chain to open a new store nearby at 461 Columbia Avenue, a somewhat larger piece of land.<\/p>\n<p>As of yet, there is no new tenant here though it is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loopnet.com\/Listing\/312-Columbia-Ave-Lexington-SC\/28037549\/\">listed<\/a> (with a nice picture of the store in operation).<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 30 September 2025<\/b> -- Apparently the building has been sold, and some sort of upfit is in progress:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070356.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070356_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2070356_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2070356_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070357.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070357_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2070357_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2070357_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070358.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070358_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2070358_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2070358_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070359.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070359_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2070359_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2070359_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070360.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070360_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2070360_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2070360_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070361.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070361_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2070361_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2070361_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070362.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070362_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2070362_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2070362_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070363.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070363_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2070363_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2070363_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070364.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070364_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2070364_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2070364_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070365.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070365_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2070365_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2070365_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070366.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070366_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2070366_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2070366_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070367.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070367_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2070367_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2070367_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070368.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070368_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2070368_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2070368_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070369.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070369_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2070369_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2070369_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also, here is the new <i>Sonic<\/i> location:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070370.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/09\/p2070370_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2070370_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2070370_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 6 February 2026<\/b> -- To be an ice cream parlor apparently:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/02\/p2090492.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/02\/p2090492_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2090492_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2090492_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/02\/p2090493.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/02\/p2090493_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2090493_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2090493_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/02\/p2090503.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/02\/p2090503_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2090503_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2090503_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/312+Columbia+Ave,+Lexington,+SC+29072\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed this vacant Sonic last weekend in Lexington. According to The State, it closed around the end of December 2022 in order for the chain to open a new store nearby at 461 Columbia Avenue, a somewhat larger piece of land. As of yet, there is no new tenant here though it is listed [&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":[4221,798,152,389,3,4222],"class_list":["post-24528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-312-columbia-avenue","tag-columbia-avenue","tag-hamburgers","tag-lexington","tag-restaurants","tag-sonic-drive-in"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24528","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=24528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25178,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24528\/revisions\/25178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}