A business boom at this busy Indian Land intersection continues. Up next, The Arches
A double gateway into Indian Land continues its transformation, this time with new commercial properties aimed squarely at it.
The county planning commission will meet April 7. That group will see early plans for The Arches, which would bring new business to a spot where traffic from Fort Mill to the west and Charlotte to the north converge in the Lancaster County panhandle.
Charlotte owner 521 Land Partners, affiliated with York Development Group, applied to put eight commercial outparcel properties on almost 12 acres. The vacant property sits on the northeast corner of U.S. 521 and Worldreach Drive. It’s just north of the Dobys Bridge Road intersection with Charlotte Highway and the Publix shopping center, on the southern edge of property under development in CrossRidge.
According to plans submitted to the county, medical offices are planned for one of the outparcel spaces. A daycare is planned for another. Initial work, according to the application, will include mass grading, access driveways, utilities and stormwater features.
Turn lane, lane marking and traffic signal timing upgrades will impact Charlotte Highway intersections with the Palmetto Commons driveway, Dobys Bridge, Worldreach Drive and Collins Road. Submitted plans show a new driveway off U.S. 521 at the center of the property. The largest outparcels are almost 3 acres. Most are about an acre each.
Just this month, Gov. Henry McMaster visited Indian Land for multiple stops to tout the burgeoning business community here. Included was a ribbon cutting for the 120,000-square-foot office building at CrossRidge, a 190-acre mixed use development that has a YMCA and will have retail and commercial space. County leaders spoke about the location of CrossRidge — the new office building overlooks property where The Arches will be — as a potential regional draw.
Traffic from North Carolina, including Charlotte and Ballantyne, has a straight shot into South Carolina via U.S. 521. High population areas like Fort Mill, Tega Cay and eastern Rock Hill can get to Indian Land through two main Fort Mill routes. One is Dobys Bridge, the other S.C. 160. Property along U.S. 521 between those two intersections has grown rapidly in recent years with new businesses and residential subdivisions.
The Arches project isn’t the only one before the planning commission when it meets. A more than 22-acre Heath Springs property is up for rezoning to allow construction of an office, workshop and storage for a general contractor. The property sits at 343 College Street, on its east side. It’s across from the College intersection with Clyde Street.
This story was originally published March 30, 2022 at 10:50 AM.
