Another Dollar General is on the way as growth continues in western Lexington
There are two types of yellow and black commercial signs that are ubiquitous in the South: Waffle House and Dollar General.
It looks like Lexington County is set to get another one of the latter.
Per a sign posted at the northeast corner of Pisgah Church and Rawl roads in Lexington, a new Dollar General store is coming soon. Site work has been happening at the corner throughout this week, with heavy machinery clearing trees and demolishing a house there.
The site of the coming store is less than a half mile from Pleasant Hill Middle School and Pleasant Hill Elementary School. It will be across the street from The Palmettos residential neighborhood on one side and an under-construction development of residential duplexes on the other. Muirfield Place and a number of other subdivisions also are nearby.
Dollar General is no stranger to Lexington County, or the U.S. in general. There are 17,000 locations across 46 states, per the company’s website. According to a store locator tool on the Dollar General website, there are already at least nine locations in the 29072 and 29073 zip codes of Lexington.
The new store will be just the latest build-out in the 5-mile corridor that runs between Highway 378 and Interstate 20 along Charter Oak, Pisgah Church and Longs Pond roads, as development continues its march west across Lexington County.
At the northern end of that corridor at Highway 378, development continues to pop up around the Publix-anchored Hendrix Crossing shopping center in what was once a purely rural stretch. A new Mavis tire store recently opened beside the Publix center, and adjacent to that there’s a sign indicating a Mod Wash car wash is on the way. The Hadleigh Park residential subdivision continues to grow behind the Publix, with several more homes under construction.
Traveling south along the corridor, near Lexington High School where Charter Oak Road bleeds into Pisgah Church Road, a number of businesses have opened in the last few years, including a McDonald’s, a Starbucks, a Walgreen’s and more.
And at the southern end of the corridor where Longs Pond Road meets I-20, there are a tangle of industrial companies and businesses, and there’s a new Starbucks under construction.
In general, Lexington County has seen rapid growth in the last two decades. Census figures show the county’s population grew from roughly 216,000 in 2000 to nearly 300,000 as of 2020.
This story was originally published April 22, 2022 at 12:04 PM.
