A new Rock Hill grocery store and Fort Mill restaurant lead latest retail wave

A Rock Hill grocery store, a Fort Mill restaurant and an Indian Land daycare are three of the new commercial developments planned for the Rock Hill region.

York and Lancaster counties have several properties where retail construction is proposed. They require various levels of approval before they can happen.

Final details, including which companies will fill the new spaces, haven’t been announced in many cases. Here’s a look at what could come next across the region:

Grocery store planned near Rock Hill

The owner of 7 acres at 176 and 180 Hands Mill Hwy. near Rock Hill applied to rezone the property for a grocery store project. The plan also includes two outparcel business spots.

The Newport site is east of Hands Mill, about halfway between Newport Lakes Drive and Hampton Ridge Road. The property backs up to the Newport Lakes subdivision. It’s listed as Hands Mill Plaza.

A concept plan shows the outparcels right off Hands Mill, at 2,000 square feet each. One is listed as having a drive-thru. Parking would run almost the length of the property away from Hands Mill, to a spot marked “food store and retail.”

No names were submitted to the county for which grocery store or outparcel businesses will be included in the project.

York County could get Dash In restaurant, gas station

Springland, Inc. and New Horizon Electric Cooperative applied to York County for rezoning a proposed convenience store and car wash. It’ll also bring a new food option. Maryland-based Dash In is the company behind a development project at 2389 Hwy. 160 West, at its intersection with Dam Road.

Dash In is a sit-down restaurant that serves all-day breakfast, burgers, pizza, wings, grilled burritos and salads. Sandwich options include Buffalo chicken, Italian sausage, cheesesteak and cranberry chicken salad. The company has more than 60 locations, mainly in the Northeast.

The food and fuel location will have more than 6,900 total square feet of new construction, on more than 3 acres. The convenience store and restaurant portion will be 5,600 square feet. There will be six fuel pumps and a drive-thru car wash.

Indian Land daycare, retail plans

Barberville Developers submitted plans for a nearly 11-acre development at Barberville Road and Fort Mill Highway in Indian Land. The project will be an eight-lot commercial property.

The traffic study submitted with the project shows plans for a 120-student school or daycare center, an 18,000-square-foot retail area and 8,000 square feet of office space.

A sketch map shows a 10,000-square-foot retail building on the Barberville Road site, across the property entrance from a 16,000-square-foot building split between office and retail. The daycare would be in the back of the property, farthest from Barberville.

Retail building on Gold Hill Road

WTX Exploration out of Fort Mill applied with York County to build a 5,960 retail building off Gold Hill Road, near Tega Cay. The new construction will go behind Ace Hardware, the former YMCA branch at 1785 Gold Hill Road that WTX Exploration bought five years ago.

The new building would be tucked to the back of the nearly 2-acre property, on the Lake Vista Boulevard side. The project needs waivers on driveway access and room for cars on the property to move forward, or else significant driveway changes that would take away access off Gold Hill.

Ace Hardware will remain in its 7,900-square-foot building, according to information submitted to the county. Details like project cost and potential tenants for the new space weren’t included.

Dollar General plans for Rock Hill

A company called CDP Rock Hill applied to York County to rezone more than 2 acres for a new Dollar General store. That property is part of a more than 7-acre undeveloped tract on Saluda Road, west of its Highway 324 intersection.

The building would be more than 10,600 square feet. It would go in a largely rural area.

Auto repair in Indian Land

Owners of more than 2 acres at 1081 Fort Mill Hwy. in Indian Land applied for a permit in Lancaster County for an auto repair site. The site has several business spaces in the more than 22,000-square-foot warehouse building.

This story was originally published February 9, 2026 at 12:00 PM.