{"id":2602,"date":"2010-09-24T00:51:20","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T05:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2602"},"modified":"2016-06-28T23:41:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T03:41:10","slug":"amerifirst-direct-citifinancial-1109-knox-abbott-drive-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2602","title":{"rendered":"Amerifirst Direct \/ Citifinancial, 1109 Knox Abbott Drive: 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/09\/p1160445.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/09\/p1160445_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/09\/p1160448.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/09\/p1160448_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/09\/p1160451.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/09\/p1160451_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/09\/p1160452.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/09\/p1160452_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently this building, on the South side of Knox Abbott Drive, just below the <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=49\">Crazy Buffett<\/a>, has a history in financial services.<\/p>\n<p>As is often the case in vacant buildings with custom signs, the existing sign is turned around in the display.  I guess this is done to keep the elements out of the display box, at any rate I've seen these reversed signs many times since I started this blog.  Anyway, this sign indicates that financial services company <i>Amerifirst Direct<\/i> once operated here.  That would have been before 2008 when <i>Citifancinal<\/i> is listed in the phonebook for that slot.<\/p>\n<p><i>Citifinancial<\/i> either closed or moved during 2008 as it is gone from the 2009 phonebook (There is still a Citi office on Knox Abbott, but I don't know if it is the same operation or a separate one).<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 28 June 2016<\/b> -- Now a <i>State Farm<\/i> office:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/16\/06\/p1320845.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/16\/06\/p1320845_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1320845_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1320845_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently this building, on the South side of Knox Abbott Drive, just below the Crazy Buffett, has a history in financial services. As is often the case in vacant buildings with custom signs, the existing sign is turned around in the display. I guess this is done to keep the elements out of the display [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[1995,13,220,314,63],"class_list":["post-2602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-1109-knox-abbott-drive","tag-business","tag-cayce","tag-financial-services","tag-knox-abbott-drive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602","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=2602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}