{"id":25932,"date":"2026-10-08T21:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T01:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=25932"},"modified":"2026-10-08T21:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T01:15:17","slug":"elevate-social-club-ruckers-735-meeting-street-2025-never-opened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=25932","title":{"rendered":"Elevate Social Club \/ Ruckers, 735 Meeting Street: 2025 \/ Never Opened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/10\/p2130935.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/10\/p2130935_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2130935_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2130935_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/10\/p2130936.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/10\/p2130936_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2130936_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2130936_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Actually this space is larger than it looks as the building is pretty deep.  I can tell that from the StreetView shots, but did not notice it as I was driving by.<\/p>\n<p><i>Elevate Social Club<\/i> was evidently a membership club that closed in late 2025, with <i>Ruckers<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/free-times\/food\/ruckers-dive-neighborhood-bar-west-columbia-sc\/article_cdbbc545-e1af-4e34-aa6a-e92e754085d8.html\">set to open in the space by early 2026<\/a>.  In the event, the West Columbia zoning board determined that <i>Ruckers<\/i> would recieve most of its revenue from alcohol (a bar monetizing alcohol, imagine that!) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/columbia\/news\/ruckers-meeting-street-west-columbia-opening-banned\/article_b87b030e-33bb-40cd-b4f6-a41ceb22b718.html\">would not be allowed to open<\/a> under that business model, or any \"club\" concept.  The owners didn't think they could make the transition to a restaurant model, and abandoned the idea.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Lavender)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/735+Meeting+St,+West+Columbia,+SC+29169\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually this space is larger than it looks as the building is pretty deep. I can tell that from the StreetView shots, but did not notice it as I was driving by. Elevate Social Club was evidently a membership club that closed in late 2025, with Ruckers set to open in the space by early [&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":[4483,2076,4427,285,2133,57],"class_list":["post-25932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-735-meeting-street","tag-bars","tag-clubs","tag-meeting-street","tag-nightclubs","tag-west-columbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25932","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=25932"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25935,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25932\/revisions\/25935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}