{"id":2556,"date":"2010-09-13T00:14:25","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T05:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2556"},"modified":"2011-05-19T23:41:15","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T04:41:15","slug":"jo-ann-fabrics-crafts-6820-garners-ferry-road-august-2010-moved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2556","title":{"rendered":"Jo-Ann Fabrics &#038; Crafts, 6820 Garners Ferry Road: August 2010 (moved)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/09\/p1130570.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/09\/p1130570_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/09\/p1130571.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/09\/p1130571_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/09\/p1130572.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/09\/p1130572_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/09\/p1150785.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/09\/p1150785_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/09\/p1150904.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/09\/p1150904_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/09\/p1150905.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/09\/p1150905_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I'm not much of a fabric guy.  I think I have written before about how my mother used to frequent fabric stores at <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=56\">Forest Lake Shopping Center<\/a> and <i>Trenholm Plaza<\/i>, and how the dye in the air would always make me stuffy and my eyes tear up.  Furthermore, I never learned to sew -- so I never visited <i>Jo-Ann Fabrics<\/i> in <i>Landmark Square<\/i> on Garners Ferry Road at I-77.<\/p>\n<p>They seem to be doing pretty well though, as they have just moved to a much larger location, <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=177\">the old Goody's building on Two Notch Road by Wal Mart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The move does something to recoup the <i>Goody's<\/i> bankruptcy blow to the Two Notch plaza, but certainly doesn't help <i>Landmark Square<\/i> any.  At one time (when <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=97\">Woolco<\/a> was the anchor) the place was doing pretty well, and I would have thought that having I-77 come through would have helped, but apparently not.  (And, I'll admit it is a bit of a pain to get onto Garners Ferry when you're headed towards the airport on 77).<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 22 March 2011<\/b> -- here's the Garners Ferry facade work mentioned in the comments:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/03\/p1200554.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/03\/p1200554_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 20 May 2011<\/b> -- It's to be <i>It's Fashion Metro<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/05\/p1210646.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/05\/p1210646_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/05\/p1210647.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/05\/p1210647_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I'm not much of a fabric guy. I think I have written before about how my mother used to frequent fabric stores at Forest Lake Shopping Center and Trenholm Plaza, and how the dye in the air would always make me stuffy and my eyes tear up. Furthermore, I never learned to sew -- so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[301,128,162,300,4,54,302],"class_list":["post-2556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fabrics","tag-garners-ferry-road","tag-i-77","tag-landmark-square","tag-stores","tag-two-notch-road","tag-wal-mart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556","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=2556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}