What’s going up next in Rock Hill, Indian Land and beyond? Here are 10 sites to watch
New construction plans across the Rock Hill region include grocery stores, restaurants, retail and new home subdivisions.
Several large projects await city or county approvals. Others just got them. All would add to a growing area where new addresses have become common.
Here are 10 spots to watch:
▪ Rock Hill’s planning commission approved a site plan June 4 for the Celanese North commercial property at 2990 Celanese Road. The almost 27-acre property now returns to Rock Hill City Council for a final annexation vote.
Developer Warren Norman Company pitched a six-building plan at more than 53,000 square feet of construction. The wooded site with a stream through the middle is on the northern side of Celanese near its Ebinport Road intersection. It’s between the Twin Lakes and India Hook roads intersections.
Plans submitted to the county show 9,500 square feet of restaurant space with additional outdoor seating and activity areas. More than 21,000 square feet of retail (which could include another restaurant) would make up the rest of the three-building frontage along Celanese. Two internal medical office buildings would combine for more than 22,000 square feet of space.
Warren Norman III told the planning commission in April there was a medical user close to signing with the project. An online listing from the company shows the 27-acre property as part of a larger site that stretches west to Twin Lakes Road. That larger plan shows a 130-unit assisted living center and a 48,000-square-foot office campus to the far west of the project.
One of the two medical center buildings on the smaller site is listed as unavailable, though the company hasn’t announced a tenant yet.
▪ A new road proposed at the Harris Teeter site in Lake Wylie offers more detail in what will go there. Aston Properties and Durban Development are partnering to build a 60,000-square-foot grocery store with a shopping center near the Five Points area.
York County’s planning commission will look at the road proposal June 10.
There’s a 32-acre property at the northwest corner of S.C. 49, or Charlotte Highway, and S.C. 55 East. It’s connected to a 17-acre property north of it. Home Grown Way, which runs through the Paddlers Cove subdivision, would be extended through those two parcels to connect with Charlotte Highway.
Plans submitted with the road request show a central, 13-acre parcel and four outparcels south of the road extension. Three of those commercial sites run along the main intersection corner at S.C. 49 and 55. The other would be along the extended Home Grown Way.
The road extension also would separate 3 acres of the northern property, into a new parcel for development that fronts home lots in Paddlers Cove.
North of the road extension, a 12-acre rectangular property would remain for future development.
Last month The Herald reported construction on the Harris Teeter is expected to begin this year.
The expected opening is fall of 2026. Ted Barnes with Durban Development presented similar plans last month for a Harris Teeter shopping center on Fort Mill Parkway in Fort Mill. Durban said both the Lake Wylie and Fort Mill stores are on a similar timeline for opening.
▪ Lennar Carolinas and Williamson Farm Lane applied to rezone more than 290 acres at 1080 Williamson Farm Lane in Lancaster County to allow for a new home subdivision. The application states the project just north of Lancaster would include detached single-family homes, but doesn’t indicate how many. T
he rezoning would switch the property from a low density to medium density residential designation. Barring site specific restrictions, county code standards would allow a 291-acre property up to 436 homes with low density listing. At medium density, that number increases to 727 homes.
▪ BRD Land and Investments applied to rezone 27 acres at 2491 Hwy. 521 Bypass in Lancaster County to create a new residential subdivision. Submitted plans show 58 homes near the intersection of Lancaster Bypass East and Kershaw Camden Highway. The subdivision with three cul-de-sacs and a small central park space would have access off both those highways.
▪ Moody Group and Barberville Developers applied to create a 12-acre commercial development at the northwest corner of Barberville Road and Fort Mill Highway in Indian Land. A submitted sketch plan shows eight commercial parcels and a common area, in a rectangular development with frontage on both roads. A new private, internal road called Melanie Lane would connect the site. A traffic impact analysis lists a 120-student school or daycare, 18,000 square feet of retail space and 8,000 square feet of office as part of the plan.
▪ A company affiliated with York Development Group applied to rezone two parcels in The Arches off U.S. 521. It’s off Charlotte Highway and Worldreach Drive, part of a 12-acre commercial area that previously announced plans for medical, office and retail space. The new rezoning doesn’t list which businesses might go on its 2 acres. The property is in a busy part of Indian Land that’s growing with everything from a Costco and Target to a Paris Baguette French bakery.
▪ Homebuilding company Taylor Morrison brought the latest section of River Falls to the planning commission in Tega Cay this month for a final plat review. It will add 32 homes on 18 acres at Gold Hill Road and River Falls Drive.
▪ The former Continental Battery site at 9868 Harrisburg Road in Indian Land could become a McClure Collision Center. The property owner needs a conditional use permit from the county to allow for the body shop. The vacant building would get a paint booth and lift, and six bays for the collision center.
▪ Progress Holdings applied to build nine homes on 11 acres in York County, in the Newport Acres subdivision. The unaddressed property is west of Adnah Church Road, south of Old York Road.
▪ Lancaster County applied to rezone almost 7 acres at 2001 Charlotte Hwy. to allow government offices there. The former auto dealership west of Charlotte Highway is north of Montgomery Drive, in Lancaster.
