A Columbia-area Chick-fil-A has been demolished, will be remodeled. Here’s what we know
A Chick-fil-A in a busy area of the Midlands has been torn down and will be remodeled.
The Chick-fil-A at 5440 Forest Drive, just west of Fort Jackson and Interstate 77, has been demolished. It is listed as “temporarily closed” on Google and on the Chick-fil-A website. A sign at the Forest Drive site said it is “closing for remodel” and asks customers to visit the Chick-fil-A at 7515 Two Notch Road in the meantime.
A timeline for the rebuild has not been publicly announced.
The Forest Drive Chick-fil-A is in a busy corridor near a Walmart, a Sam’s Club and numerous other businesses. Shandon Baptist Church also is nearby. About 23,200 cars per day travel down that stretch of Forest Drive, per state Department of Transportation statistics.
Chick-fil-A has more than a dozen restaurants in the Midlands and has been active in updating its local facilities in the last couple years.
For example, the Chick-fil-A at 2299 Augusta Road in West Columbia reopened in May after being closed for three months for a remodeling. And the Chick-fil-A at 294 Harbison Blvd., which was torn down in 2022, was rebuilt and reopened in March.
The Chick-fil-A on Dutch Fork Road was closed earlier this year for remodeling and reopened in late June.
Also, the Chick-fil-A at 10136 Two Notch Road was demolished earlier this year, and a new version of the restaurant was built back on-site. It reopened in September.
The Chick-fil-A on Dutch Fork Road in Irmo closed earlier this year and reopened in June after being remodeled.
In 2022 the Chick-fil-A at 2600 Decker Blvd. closed and moved to 7515 Two Notch Road, near Interstate 20. And a new Chick-fil-A opened in March 2022 at 5465 Platt Springs Road near Red Bank.
This story was originally published November 20, 2023 at 7:37 AM.
