A high-traffic Columbia junction is pitched for redevelopment. What we know
Do you drive through southeast Columbia? You could soon run into new major construction, with a long-unchanged corner lot in a busy Columbia corridor now available for redevelopment.
Commercial real estate firm NAI Columbia wants someone to lease the 3.14 acre site at the corner of Rosewood Drive and Beltline Boulevard, currently occupied by a handful of businesses and homes. Specifically, NAI says a convenience store would be ideal for the site “as there is little to no competition in the immediate area.”
The busy intersection where the new development would come is something of a Columbia traffic sorter, giving drivers access to major thoroughfare roads that span the city: Take Rosewood Drive to Beltline Boulevard to get to Forest Acres. Take Rosewood a little further to Garners Ferry and get to Lower Richland. Take Rosewood Drive east and get to downtown Columbia.
Because of this, the intersection sees a lot of traffic. An average of 24,000 vehicles drive down Rosewood Boulevard each day. Another 10,000 each day travel the piece of Beltline Boulevard between Rosewood Drive and Devine Street. More than 8,000 cars a day take Beltline Boulevard to Rosewood Drive, and another nearly 19,000 cars take Rosewood Drive to Garners Ferry Road.
NAI Columbia hopes that traffic entices new business to the intersection, which is occupied now by a cell phone repair store, a body piercing shop, and several homes. The full 3.14 acre site is owned by a family trust for the Gaffos Family.
The State has contacted NAI Columbia for additional information, including what the plans are for the businesses already on the site.
What does the proposed development plan mean for you? Nothing yet. Right now, NAI Columbia is looking for interested parties, but there are no formal site plans for a convenience store project at that intersection as of now.
If a convenience store did set up on the site, it would join a string of similar shops on Rosewood Drive and Beltline Boulevard, as well as a Quick Trip 1.5 miles away near Fort Jackson.
