LOCAL
Updated: 10/23/04
Several new
businesses finding home at Baxter Village
By
Eileen Bradway
The Herald
FORT MILL –
Business is booming in Baxter.
Several
businesses will either open or start construction in Baxter
Village in the coming months, said Kerri Robusto, sales and
marketing director.
Coming to the
development, located off S.C. 160 near Interstate 77, are:
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The Six
Pence Pub and Restaurant, an English pub with a rooftop terrace,
will serve lunch and dinner. Construction is expected to start
by the end of the year. The chain also has locations in
Savannah, GA., and Blowing Rock, N.C.
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Field of
Dreams Nurture and Education Center will open in the spring next
to the new Weston YMCA, which is scheduled to open in the
summer. Field of Dreams will offer programs for infants,
toddlers, and school-age children, according to its Web site,
which can be found at
www.fieldofdreamscenter.com.
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Dr. Tommy
Epps, a Fort Mill native, will open an orthodontics practice in
about seven months.
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An office
condominium building will open in the spring at the corner of
Market Street and Sutton Road in Baxter. It will off units 600
square feet and up, according to a release.
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Liu Liu’s
Chinese Restaurant will open later this month.
Polka Dots, a stationary
and gift shop that prints invitations and announcements
in-house, is one of the newest additions to the development,
opening just three weeks ago. It is the first venture for
co-owners Kelly Patterson and Heather Lux, who decided to
combine their backgrounds in stationary and marketing.
“We just had
a good feeling this was a good location,” Patterson said, adding
they’ve gotten good feedback from the community. Lux is also a
Baxter resident.
The Baxter
Village development has about 560 homes so far, Robusto said.
The increasing population offers a good customer base for
businesses locating there, she said.
“It’s
exciting because it’s another part of Baxter that is becoming a
reality”, she said.
Baxter is
already home to Beef O’Brady’s, SweetTreats Ice Cream and
Coffee, law offices, a cleaners and salon, among other
businesses.
The first
house in Baxter was built in 1998. By 2009, the development
should be complete with 1,325 homes and businesses and shops.
The development also has an elementary school, public library,
and urgent care center.
“It’s a
long time in the works,” Robusto said.
