Could a $5M Fort Mill property deal point to a new hospital? Here’s what we know

A Charlotte hospital group landed one of the Rock Hill region’s most expensive property sales last month, just three months after setting aside money for a new Fort Mill hospital.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority bought more than 10 acres at Interstate 77 and Sutton Road. The $5 million deal adds to an 83-acre site at the Sutton Road interchange, near Masons Bend. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Hospital Authority is the entity that makes business decisions for Atrium Health.

Late last year, Atrium offered some details on a $450 million hospital plan. The four-story Fort Mill facility will have 60 beds, with a 2029 opening. The 200,000-square-foot hospital will have a 73,000-square-foot medical office building beside it.

One detail Atrium wouldn’t offer at the time was the hospital’s location. The hospital group owns several properties across Fort Mill, with the largest one being the Sutton Road and interstate site. Messages left for Atrium last week for details on the hospital location weren’t returned.

Whatever the planned use, the Atrium deal ranks as one of the largest property sales across the Rock Hill region in March. Others include hotel, home and commercial sites, many of them involving buyers from across the country.

Million dollar land sales

Here’s a look at the other biggest March deals in York and Lancaster counties, according to county land records:

• A Harrisburg, North Carolina, company bought the TownePlace Suites hotel near Carowinds on March 20 for $10 million. The six-story, nearly 69,000-square-foot hotel was built in 2020. The nearly four-acre Fort Mill property at 3519 Lakemont Blvd. is just off Carowinds Boulevard, near the front entrance to the theme park.
• A company in Lyndhurst, New Jersey, bought the apartment complex at 321 Flint Hill Road in Fort Mill on March 18 for $6.2 million. The nine-acre property includes four buildings, all built in 2007, at a combined 38,000 square feet.
• A Pasadena, California, company bought the 5,800-square-foot fast food site at 8364 Charlotte Hwy. in Indian Land on March 5 for $3.8 million. The former Salsarita’s was built in 2015.
• New York state-based company Jing Hwa bought a vacant commercial site in Lake Wylie on March 6 for $3.4 million. Less than an acre, the 4999 Charlotte Hwy. site is halfway between Evergreen Road and Village Harbor Drive.
• Tri Opportunity Investment Group, based in Casper, Wyoming, bought a former payroll building site near downtown Rock Hill on March 5 for $3 million. The 153 S. Oakland Avenue property is bounded by Oakland and Charlotte avenues, plus the downtown rail line. The 18,000-square-foot building was constructed in 1968.
• A Charlotte company bought the Lancer apartments in Lancaster County on March 27 for $2.7 million. The properties are on Fowler and Hubbard roads.
• Homebuilder Lennar Carolinas bought 23 home sites on Ambrosia Drive and Sparano Loop on March 23 for $2.3 million. The new construction sites are in York’s Cannon Village subdivision.
• Lennar also bought 15 Lancaster home lots on March 9 for $2.3 million. They’re on Waxhaw Village, Good Day Drive and Redbud Road.
• Shingle Shack Properties bought commercial property at 175 Bonum Road in Lake Wylie on March 31 for $2 million. It includes a nearly 12,000-square-foot storage facility.
• QuikTrip bought the former Lumber Liquidators and Blockbuster Video site in Rock Hill on March 30 for $1.9 million. The shopping center outparcel at the corner of Cherry and Ebinport roads is more than an acre.
• Homebuilder Taylor Morrison bought 20 lots in Indian Land’s Sugar Creek development on March 26 for $1.8 million. They’re on Little Creek Lane, Miles Gap and Beacon Heights roads.
• Kershaw company Palmetto Holdings of the Carolinas bought the nearly 18,000-square-foot Small’s Food Center supermarket in Kershaw on March 24 for $1.4 million. It was built in 1973.
• Monroe, North Carolina-based homebuilder True Homes bought 13 lots in Rock Hill’s Colvin Park subdivision on March 24 for $1.4 million. The Equality Avenue properties are near Heckle Boulevard.
• A Rock Hill company bought two properties, one at 180 Glenwood Dr. and one at 1620 Bradford Ct., on March 4 for $1 million. The commercial sites include an apartment building at 8,700 square feet.
• A Concord, North Carolina, farm bought more than 260 acres in Lancaster County on March 26 for $1 million. Two Plyler Mill Road properties there are just south of the North Carolina line, and just west of Chesterfield County.

Million dollar home sales

York and Lancaster counties also had 20 homes sell for $1 million or more in March. A nearly $2 million lakefront property in Lake Wylie topped that list, and four of five homes that sold for $1.5 million or more were in Lake Wylie. The other was in Indian Land.

Use the map below to take a look at all the $1 million sales: