Happy Wednesday everyone! We hope you enjoyed your Super Bowl and Valentine’s weekends! Since our last newsletter we have a new McDonald’s, Express Oil Change and a new bakery - B’zzz Custom Cakes. See our Instagram posts below with details.
Now we are excited to share the opening of the new Goodwill next week! See story below. We also announced via Instagram that the area being prepped behind the new McDonald’s on 521 will be a Jiffy Lube. Indian Land will soon to be referred to as the car maintence capital of South Carolina.
- Casey
FEATURES
Indian Land Goodwill to open next Friday
Goodwill Industries of the Southern Piedmont will host a grand opening of its newest retail store in Indian Land on Friday, February 25.
Promenade at Carolina Reserve Sold
JLL Capital Markets announced this week that it has closed the sale of Promenade at Carolina Reserve, a 100-percent-leased super-regional retail center with 255,868 square feet of multi-tenant space in Indian Land.
TOP STORIES
Rock Hill, Indian Land and Great Falls trail connections are mapped. Here’s the latest [Marks/Herald]. More than $750,000 in grant money to expand the Carolina Thread Trail includes several projects that impact York, Lancaster and Chester counties. A Waxhaw, N.C. project will expand the Twelve Mile Creek Greenway shared with Indian Land. The greenway crosses both North Carolina and South Carolina. The $50,000 construction grant will upgrade a formerly private trail that will become public. It also will expand the greenway.
Lancaster County redistricting maps finalized, Indian Land gets third council seat [WBTV]. The new Lancaster County district maps will look a lot different for the next 10 years. Part of the reason is growth in the Panhandle. The Indian Land area not only grew in population, but it is also gaining a seat in the city council. County council held a special called meeting Monday night to vote a third and final time on the redistricting plan.
Driver charged following crash that injured an Indian Land school bus driver [WBTV]. Troopers with the South Carolina Highway Patrol said the driver of a 2009 four-door sedan crossed the center line and struck the school bus driven by Judy Carter head-on. Bus 4 from Indian Land was struck by two separate vehicles before losing control and traveling about 30 feet into the woods off Harrisburg Road just before 6 p.m.
Winning lottery ticket sold in Indian Land [CN2]. They didn’t win the Super Bowl, but they are getting paid like a professional athlete. Someone in Indian Land won $100,000 in Sunday’s Palmetto Cash 5 drawing.
Power surge fries homeowners electronics, Duke Energy won’t pay up on claims [WBTV]. Dozens of homeowners in Indian Land are frustrated after being left to pay for thousands of dollars of personal belongings damaged in their homes after a power surge. Duke Energy says the surge was caused by an equipment failure but now the company is refusing to cover the cost of the damage.
EPA proposes settlement with New-Indy mill over pollution, but some say it’s not enough [Perkins/The Herald]. While the EPA passed an emergency order against New-Indy last May, the proposed consent order, which will require more action to be taken at the mill, has not yet been passed. New-Indy has agreed to meet the requirements currently outlined in the consent order, officials with New-Indy and the EPA said. The current draft can be read online at www.justice.gov/enrd/consent-decrees.