A national store along Columbia’s busy Harbison Boulevard will close its doors
It appears that a Columbia location of a national boating supply store will sail into the sunset.
West Marine, which offers boating and sailing supplies and has stores in a number of states, is set to close its location at 142 Harbison Blvd. The store has a large banner on the front that says “store closing” as well as posters in the windows that say there are store closing discounts going on, including that fixtures are for sale.
West Marine filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in May, as reported by business website Inc. Court documents at the time noted the company planned to close 59 of its more than 200 locations.
The Columbia Harbison store is listed on the West Marine website as one of the locations that is closing. Other South Carolina locations slated to close are in Anderson, Murrells Inlet, North Myrtle Beach, and Port Royal.
West Marine’s Harbison store has been part of a busy shopping center that also includes a Target, a Publix, an Old Navy, a Sierra, a Burlington and other national businesses.
The Harbison corridor, in general, remains a popular commercial hub northwest of downtown Columbia, lined with big box stores, restaurants, bars, hotels, movie theaters, the Columbiana Centre mall and more. About 20,000 cars per day travel down Harbison Boulevard, per state Department of Transportation traffic count data.
