{"id":3162,"date":"2011-01-27T01:38:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T06:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=3162"},"modified":"2011-12-23T01:12:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-23T06:12:19","slug":"metro-columbia-florist-delivery-pool-2218-gervais-street-late-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=3162","title":{"rendered":"Metro Columbia Florist Delivery Pool, 2218 Gervais Street: 2010(?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/p1190540.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/01\/p1190540_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here's a non-descript little warehouse on Gervais Street between Millwood and Harden that I couldn't ever recall seeing before when I noticed the big for-sale sign out front.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently it was a flower staging area for local florists.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-data.com\/richland-county\/G\/Gervais-Street-15.html\">2009-2010 county property assessments<\/a> list the owner as \"METRO COLUMBIA FLORIST \/ DELIVERY COOPERATIVE INC\" while the \"Delivery Pool\" language comes from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pagelink.com\/list\/US\/SC\/Columbia\/florist\">this listing of local florists<\/a>.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loopnet.com\/Listing\/16485279\/2218-Gervais-St-Columbia-SC\/\">LoopNet<\/a> says the building dates from 1970 while the county link says 1987.  To me it looks a bit more 70s-ish than 80s-ish.<\/p>\n<p>It's rather interesting how every-other letter has fallen off of the start of \"FLORIST\", rendering is as \"F O I\".  I take the \"L\" as having been part of \"POOL\" though the spacing looks pretty tight for that.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 8 March 2011<\/b> -- Hmm.  It's been painted, the old logo letters have been taken down, the <i>for-sale<\/i> sign is off in the corner and the door is open:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/03\/p1200490.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/03\/p1200490_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 13 April 2011<\/b> -- It's to be \"Detail & Body Works By Frank\".  Picture a little blurry..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/04\/p1200734.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/04\/p1200734_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 23 December 2011<\/b> -- Now open:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/12\/p1000475.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/12\/p1000475_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here's a non-descript little warehouse on Gervais Street between Millwood and Harden that I couldn't ever recall seeing before when I noticed the big for-sale sign out front. Apparently it was a flower staging area for local florists. The 2009-2010 county property assessments list the owner as \"METRO COLUMBIA FLORIST \/ DELIVERY COOPERATIVE INC\" while [&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":[13,105,67],"class_list":["post-3162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-florist","tag-gervais-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162","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=3162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}