A huge industrial site near the old Knights Stadium in Fort Mill sold for $12M

A huge industrial building near the old Knights Stadium site, a Tech Park property eyed by a Charlotte company and yet another $3 million home top the list of the Rock Hill region’s biggest property sales in September.

York and Lancaster counties had more than 30 sales that topped the $1 million mark last month, according to county land records. Two-thirds of those deals were for homes, continuing an ongoing uptick in high-end sales.

Here’s a look at the biggest September transactions:

Fort Mill, Lake Wylie, Tega Cay lead home sales

The 21 sales at $1 million of more include the second $3 million deal this year, both of them coming in the past two months. A Topsail Circle home in Tega Cay sold for nearly $3.2 million. A Bramble Way home in Fort Mill was next, at $2.9 million. The region had three sales at $2 million or more, and eight homes sold for more than $1.5 million.

It isn’t just one area, either. Of those eight homes at $1.5 million or more, only Lake Wylie and Fort Mill had multiple homes. Tega Cay, York, Indian Land and Lancaster made the list, too. The four highest sales, in fact, happened in four different communities.

Use the map below for more information on all the million-dollar sales. Blue icons are September deals. Black icons are prior million-dollar home sales this year.

Fort Mill industrial site on Deerfield Drive

The biggest September sale in the Rock Hill region wasn’t a home. A Pineville, North Carolina, company bought a 108,000-square-foot industrial building in Fort Mill on Sept. 22 for $12.4 million. The 2203 Deerfield Drive building is near the former Knights Stadium and Charlotte Hornets practice facility sites. It was built on 10 acres, in 1992.

Demon Development bought the site. That company shares an address and legal details with baseball training company Tread Athletics.

The Deerfield Drive property is surrounded by land owned by the Fort Mill School District, including the district office, and Cato Land Development. Cato Land Development is the company behind plans to redevelop more than 350 acres at the former Knights Stadium property, left vacant when the minor league baseball team moved to Charlotte in 2014.

Tech Park site in Rock Hill sells

In another large deal, a company called Box Turtle Holdings bought nearly 5 acres and the former CAT Resources building in Rock Hill for $6.1 million. The Tech Park site at 483 Lakeshore Parkway sold on Sept. 29. CAT Resources announced $18 million plans to move to a 92,000-square-foot building in Aspen Buiness Park near the airport in Rock Hill, The Herald reported in February.

Box Turtle Holdings is also a key piece to an economic development deal with an unnamed company, The Herald reported in September. Codenamed Project Cornice, it involves a Charlotte company moving office and manufacturing spaces to Rock Hill. The $12.3 million investment would bring 74 jobs. The project includes an ornamental metals fabrication plant and design space for architects and engineers, according to information from York County.

York County Council has to approve the economic incentive deal for Box Turtle Holdings to take part of it over from the former tenant.

Other million-dollar property sales

Here’s information on the rest of the large land sales in September:

• A Greenville company bought more than 3 acres at 1188 Constitution Blvd. in Rock Hill on Sept. 25 for $2.7 million. The sale includes eight storage buildings in the Constitution Commercial Center, a combined 24,000 square feet.
• Rock Hill Eats Too, a company based in Concord, North Carolina, bought the Zaxby’s restaurant at 2889 Heckle Blvd. in Rock Hill. The 3,300-square-foot restaurant built in 2010 sold on Sept. 9 for $2.6 million.
• A company affiliated with Safrit Real Estate Holdings in Greer bought the dental clinic at 1860 Coltharp Road in Fort Mill. The Sept. 15 sale for $2.6 million includes a 5,300-square-foot office built in 2019, on about an acre.
• A Tennessee company bought a more than 19,000-square-foot warehouse in York on Sept. 25 for $2.4 million. The facility was built in 1993, just south of Benfield Road.
• Homebuilder Taylor Morrison bought 21 Lancaster County properties on Sept. 23 for $1.9 million. They are lots for a new home subdivision off Harrisburg Road in Indian Land called Ridge at Sugar Creek. The lots are on Beacon Heights and Miles Gap roads.
• A Columbia company bought the Bojangles restaurant at 4940 Old York Road in Rock Hill. The $1.7 million sale on Sept. 12 involves less than an acre, and the 3,100-square-foot restaurant built in 2021.
• A company called OMMY Rock Hill bought the instant oil change garage at 2688 Cherry Road in Rock Hill on Sept. 26 for $1.5 million. The 2,500-square-foot building is near the Cherry and Celanese roads interchange off Interstate 77.
• Adult Enrichment Centers bought the 742 North Anderson Road building in Rock Hill, and a small parcel beside it, on Sept. 12 for $1.3 million. The parcels combine for 2 acres. The 9,500-square-foot building on North Anderson was most recently a coworking space and coffee shop. Adult Enrichments Centers has sites in Fort Mill and York, providing adult day care for neurodiverse adults.