Harbison restaurant permanently closes in the wake of coronavirus shutdown
A restaurant in Columbia’s popular Harbison business corridor has permanently closed after being forced to temporarily shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Copper River Grill, located in the Columbiana Station shopping center on Bower Parkway, has closed.
“Sadly, we had to close our Columbia location,” Copper River Grill CEO Dan Angell said in an email. “The virus shut us down for so long that it became impractical to try and reopen it, especially with the social distancing regulations.”
The restaurant was part of a small chain that includes five other locations in South Carolina and one in Kentucky.
Restaurants across the Palmetto State have only just begun reopening for indoor and outdoor dine-in service in the past two weeks. S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster had required all restaurants and bars to cease on-premise service for more than a month, beginning March 18; many restaurants continued takeout and delivery service in the meantime.
Outdoor dining was allowed to resume May 4, and indoor dining was permitted beginning May 11.
Copper River Grill is not the only local restaurant to permanently close at least in part due to the hardship of the pandemic. Yesterdays Restaurant and Tavern, one of the city’s most iconic restaurants, announced last month it was closing for good.
This story was originally published May 15, 2020 at 3:48 PM.
