It appears what as soon as was a center for Southern nation cooking will quickly be a location for tacos and other Mexican fare.
The previous Lizard’s Thicket at 402 Beltline Boulevard in Columbia has actually been offered, according to a release from industrial realty company Colliers South Carolina. Cason Development Group has actually bought the property, and it will be customized to house a Moctezumas Mexican restaurant, per the release.
The one-time Lizard’s Thicket building on Beltline has to do with 6,500-square-feet, and remains in a hectic industrial location east of downtown, less than a half-mile from Midlands Technical College’s Beltline school.
Moctezumas has long had a footprint in the location, and presently has a little shop at 506 Beltline. It likewise utilized to have another place close by at 4341 Fort Jackson Blvd., however that area closed previously this year after the building where it lay was offered. The business likewise just recently established an area in Greer in the Upstate.
Colliers represented the Williams family, which has actually long run the various Lizard’s Thicket places throughout the Midlands, in the recent sale of the Beltline Boulevard property.
”The property remains in an excellent place, allowing us to accomplish a high worth for the property,” Colliers’ Crawford Prezioso said in a declaration. “It will continue to serve the local community as a family restaurant.”
A list price for the building was not divulged in the release.
The Lizard’s Thicket at Beltline Boulevard closed in August 2021, in what was at first revealed as a short-lived closure, in the middle of a labor scarcity. The place never ever resumed, nevertheless.
Meanwhile, Lizard’s Thicket has actually continued to rake ahead with 13 other places throughout the Midlands and South Carolina, focusing on meat-and-three lunches and suppers, in addition to breakfast. It is preparing a 14th restaurant in Red Bank, which might open by the end of the year.
