From dessert shops to fitness centers, the Folly Market looks like its going to have it all. The Folly Market is coming to James Island on Folly Road and will incorporate the Bi-Lo already at Rivers Point Row. The Gramling Brothers Real Estate & Development aims to have it open during the first quarter of 2014. “It’ll probably be just a grocery anchored shopping center that is, we hope, repositioned and just certainly more upscale and more vibrant than it has been for a long time,” says Mikell Harper, VP of business development at Gramling Brothers.
The hours for the Folly Market will vary depending on the business that fill the spots. “If there’s a fitness club then it could be open very early in the morning, but I would say that most of the center would come to life by about 9 a.m., and then the restaurants would keep it open until you know whatever closing time is on James Island,” Harper says. Gramling Brothers has put together different properties that fit together and give them the opportunity to redevelop the whole center. Harper says he can’t give specific names of the tenants, but he thinks that they will have two to three big anchor stores that will occupy the vacant space that is in line with Bi-Lo where there is about 50,000 square feet of land.
There they plan to have a mix of soft goods, retail, potentially a fitness center, small shops, and maybe a restaurant or two. In the 15,000 square foot space in the front they plan on having restaurants, dessert shops and more smaller retail users like cell phone and auto companies. “We want it to represent James Island and Folly Road. It’s a neighborhood, I think, where you’ve got a good mix of folks who like to have a good place where they can go get a reasonably priced meal and have a drink or two, and also you of course have got the beach that’s close by and a lot of folks that come to Folly Beach for vacation,” Harper says. “I would see us having kind of a laid back ambiance, laid back feel to it. That’s certainly what we’re shooting for. It’s not going to be anything too buttoned up.”
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