More new apartments could take over prime downtown Columbia site
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story previously mislabeled the type of apartments being proposed due to an incorrect file on a city agenda. (Updated 8:38 p.m. 11/18/2025)
More new apartments are being pitched in a prime downtown Columbia area.
A developer hopes to build a new multi-family apartment at the corner of Senate and Park streets in Columbia’s Vista neighborhood, a stone’s throw from the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center.
The site currently hosts a location of the Five Guys burger chain, and the Monterrey Mexican restaurant. The fate of those establishments is not immediately clear, but the building that houses the restaurants may be demolished to make room for the new apartments, according to documents submitted to the City of Columbia by Subtext, the developer behind the apartment proposal.
The developer is also planning to create retail space on the building’s first floor. The project would also include a parking garage for 198 vehicles.
Other new apartments under construction nearby include the four-story, 700-bed Verve student apartments at the corner of Huger and Blossom streets, and a 174-unit “Antique Apartments” on the other side of Huger Street.
Columbia’s Design/Development Review Commission will consider the proposal for the Senate Street apartments Thursday.
This story was originally published November 18, 2025 at 5:00 AM.
CORRECTION: This story previously said the project would be for student housing. The city’s agenda listed an incorrect item. The story has been corrected.
