{"id":7485,"date":"2013-03-14T00:16:55","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T05:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=7485"},"modified":"2022-10-07T23:32:41","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T03:32:41","slug":"mattress-source-107-harbison-boulevard-11-december-2012-buyout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=7485","title":{"rendered":"Mattress Source, 107 Harbison Boulevard: 11 December 2012 (buyout)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1170026.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1170026_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1170026_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1170026_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1170028.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1170028_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1170028_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1170028_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1170029.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1170029_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1170029_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1170029_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1170030.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1170030_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1170030_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1170030_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattressfirm.com\/mattress-source-land-page-L108.aspx\">As detailed here<\/a>, on 11 December 2012, <i>Mattress Firm<\/i> bought out <i>Mattress Source<\/i> and all the <i>Mattress Source<\/i> stores were closed temporarily for re-branding.<\/p>\n<p>I missed the buyout news, not being in the mattress market currently, but noticed the new banner over the old marquee when I was driving down Harbison recently.  Since I don't have a dog in the fight, I'll say that I like the name <i>Mattress Firm<\/i> better than <i>Mattress Source<\/i> as it works (presumably intentionally) as a play on words.<\/p>\n<p>I'll also say that while I have no opinion yea or nay on their mattresses, I continue to admire the <i>Tempurpedic<\/i> logo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1170027.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1170027_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1170027_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1170027_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You wouldn't think that you could get away with plastering a shapely undraped female derriere all over your marquee and front yard, but they do.  Granted they have toned down the, um, cleavage from a few years ago:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/12\/beds_plus00.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/12\/beds_plus00_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 19 September 2022<\/b> -- As mentioned in the comments, the building has come down.  Also there seems to be a lot of land clearing behind the old site as well:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/09\/p1830852.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/09\/p1830852_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1830852_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1830852_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/09\/p1830853.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/09\/p1830853_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1830853_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1830853_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/09\/p1830854.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/09\/p1830854_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1830854_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1830854_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/09\/p1830855.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/09\/p1830855_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1830855_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1830855_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/09\/p1830856.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/09\/p1830856_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1830856_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1830856_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/09\/p1830857.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/09\/p1830857_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1830857_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1830857_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/09\/p1830858.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/09\/p1830858_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1830858_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1830858_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/09\/p1830859.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/09\/p1830859_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1830859_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1830859_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/09\/p1830860.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/09\/p1830860_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1830860_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1830860_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/09\/p1830861.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/09\/p1830861_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1830861_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1830861_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also updating tags and adding map icon.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 7 October 2022<\/b> -- Here are a few shots from the start of the teardown:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/10\/p1830125.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/10\/p1830125_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1830125_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1830125_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/22\/10\/p1830126.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/22\/10\/p1830126_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1830126_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1830126_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/107+Harbison+Blvd,+Columbia,+SC+29212\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As detailed here, on 11 December 2012, Mattress Firm bought out Mattress Source and all the Mattress Source stores were closed temporarily for re-branding. I missed the buyout news, not being in the mattress market currently, but noticed the new banner over the old marquee when I was driving down Harbison recently. Since I don't [&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":[3592,1051,188,182,883,177,4],"class_list":["post-7485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-107-harbison-boulevard","tag-country-squire-drive","tag-harbison","tag-harbison-boulevard","tag-mattresses","tag-saint-andrews-road","tag-stores"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485","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=7485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}