COLUMBIA – Although the Rimer Pond Road commercial zoning request was withdrawn from the June 23 Richland County Council public hearing, a related issue that could prompt a new, similar rezoning request for the same property before the end of the year is still pending at the County and will go before the County Planning […]
Council OK’s First Reading on Industrial Zoning
July 2, 2015 By
BLYTHEWOOD – Rezoning of a 600-plus acre site nestled between Ashley Oaks subdivision, Locklear Road, Northpoint Industrial Park and I-77 passed first reading by Town Council Monday evening to allow a wide variety of industries to set up shop. Town Administrator Gary Parker introduced the rezoning request, which was recommended by the Town’s Planning Commission. […]
Council OK’s Transfer of Sycamore Water Deal
June 26, 2015 By
WINNSBORO – Town Council last week approved the transfer of a water agreement from the developer of a pair of Blythewood projects to a prospective buyer of one of those projects. Last March, Council gave the OK to up to 42,800 gallons a day for 107 residential lots on a 31.23-acre tract at 502 Rimer […]
Blythewood Welcomes New Businesses
June 25, 2015 By
Restaurants, Retail, Medical Office Opening Doors BLYTHEWOOD – Business is booming in Blythewood these days with the prospect of two new pizza restaurants, a new kind of dollar store and a new medical office that will accommodate a pediatrician and an ophthalmologist (see June 22 issue of The Voice). Pappa John’s will open a restaurant […]
Economic Development Director Steps Down
June 19, 2015 By
WINNSBORO – Tiffany Harrison, Fairfield County’s Director of Economic Development since 2006, announced her resignation last week, effective July 2. Harrison has accepted the Executive Director position with the Midlands Education Business Alliance in Columbia, an organization that fosters work-ready educational needs. “It’s a great opportunity to support economic development from the workforce side,” Harrison […]
Training, Performance Root of Nuke Plant Damage
June 19, 2015 By
JENKINSVILLE – A 30-page report, issued by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) last week, classifies two findings associated with the accidental damage in February of the nuclear containment vessel under construction at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station as “non-cited violations,” calling both findings “of very low safety significance.” The report did, however, note a breakdown […]
B.A.R. Gives First OK to Office Building
June 18, 2015 By
BLYTHEWOOD – The Town’s Architectural Consultant, Matt Davis, stepped out of that role on Monday evening during the Board of Architectural Review meeting to represent the applicants for a medical office to be located at 121 Blythewood Road, across from Companion Animal Hospital. Designed to be shared by two private medical practices, a pediatrician and […]
Public Resists Rezoning Efforts
June 18, 2015 By
Rimer Pond Road Residents Put Developer on the Spot BLYTHEWOOD – No minds were changed after a June 8 neighborhood meeting at Round Top Elementary School between 50 or so residents opposing a request for the commercial zoning of 5.23 acres on Rimer Pond Road (across from Blythewood Middle School) and two Richland County government […]
An Industrious Group –
April 2, 2015 By
S.C. Secretary of Commerce Bobby Hitt addressed Blythewood’s first Industry Appreciation Breakfast on Tuesday at The Manor. About 40 invited guests from area industries heard Hitt warn that when industry comes knocking, towns and counties must be ready if they are to attract the jobs. He also said companies locate in communities and look first […]
Blythewood Begins Zoning for Industry
April 2, 2015 By
Ordinance Passes First Reading BLYTHEWOOD – Town Council took the first step Monday evening in a newly energized effort to bring industry to Blythewood. It passed first reading on a Limited Industrial Two (LI-2) zoning district that will allow a wider variety and greater intensity of manufacturing uses than the Town’s current Limited Industrial District […]
