A national steakhouse is planning a location in this busy Lexington County area
A new steakhouse is being planned at a burgeoning mixed-use development in a fast-growing part of Lexington.
LongHorn Steakhouse, which has restaurants across the U.S., is planning a location in the Platt Springs Crossing development along Platt Springs Road in the Red Bank area of Lexington County, according to information in the October agenda of the Lexington County Planning Commission. The LongHorn item is listed in the “commercial projects and subdivisions” portion of the agenda.
The steakhouse would be near the southeast corner of the development, not far from the intersection of Platt Springs Road and Old Orangeburg Road, according to Lexington County records. Construction on a steakhouse had not begun when a reporter went by the site Tuesday morning.
There are more than 600 LongHorn Steakhouse locations across the U.S., per data website ScrapeHero. There currently are three LongHorns in the Midlands, including one in the Vista in Columbia, one on Harbison Boulevard, and one on Decker Boulevard in northeast Columbia.
Platt Springs Crossing is a 60-acre, $65 million mixed-use project that is quickly developing off Platt Springs Road near South Lake Drive. Businesses that already are up and running at the site include a recently opened Lowes Foods grocery store, a Panda Express Chinese restaurant, a Whataburger, a Chipotle, a Big Blue Marble Academy early childhood center and a Prisma Health urgent care facility. More businesses are expected to be announced for the development, and there are 142 townhomes planned on the northeast end of the property.
The Red Bank area in south central Lexington County has boomed with growth in recent years with new subdivisions, schools, businesses and more. About 18,500 cars per day travel down Platt Springs Road near the Platt Springs Crossing development, per state Department of Transportation stats, while more than 27,000 cars-per-day traverse South Lake Drive nearby.
This story was originally published November 11, 2025 at 12:24 PM.
