Real Talk Roundtable

[00:00:00] Speaker A: We're the bosses in the South Making. [00:00:02] Speaker B: Money moves, turning dreams into streams yet we never lose Columbia's finest building from the grill flipping stacks to billions we wear the crown Bosses of Columbia we're running the scene Flipping small town hustle in the big town green from the. [00:00:16] Speaker C: Heart of the city Hear he, hear he, hear he. Let's see here today's topic on this episode of Bosses of Columbia. What do we need in the Metro City? [00:00:30] Speaker D: We need a lot. I think we need a lot. We don't have a lot of activities for kids. We don't have a lot of entertainment. As far as adult entertainment, I don't think. I think they have a lot of concerts for younger people. I think that's one thing. Two things I think we, we did say there is a lot of, well, not a lot of, but more adult lounges and clubs coming up. So. But we do want more choices, you know, because we don't, we don't like to party with 25 and below, basically because we know that's where most of the shit goes down at that point. [00:01:17] Speaker B: I think we need more community. Community, not just community events. I think we need more community where we're embracing one another and we're not always looking at each other as competition. [00:01:31] Speaker C: Like, love the love. [00:01:32] Speaker B: Yeah. That's what I think we need more of in, in Columbia. Like, you know, Mo has mahogany. I see Mo giving love and support to other establishments. And just, just because I'm a realtor doesn't mean I can't support another realtor or speak highly of another realtor. When people call me, if there's a client out there who's not happy with their realtor, what I suggest to them, and you, you're a witness to this, is that you go and have a conversation with your realtor. You, you know, you don't just jump ship because you're not happy. Have you communicated your dissatisfaction to them? And everyone's not like that. Every, it's, everybody is like, you know, they're, you know, it's a doggy do, girl. You know, everybody's trying to. Yeah, yeah, you know, stabbing each other in the back and stuff like that. And so I just think that we need to have a lot more compassion for one another. And again, community. So. And, you know, I know when you all were saying, what do we need more? You're, you're thinking of businesses, but with the community, it's going to bring about better businesses. [00:02:41] Speaker D: That's true. [00:02:42] Speaker C: I can agree to that. But attractions wise, we do have A new sky ride coming to Columbia. [00:02:50] Speaker D: Is it downtown? [00:02:52] Speaker C: It's going. Actually, it's going to come from one of those areas. I'm not exactly sure where in downtown or it's going to end up at the zoo. [00:03:01] Speaker A: Hmm. Matter of fact, Skyride. [00:03:03] Speaker C: Skyride. I'm gonna read up on it for you real quick. [00:03:06] Speaker A: Wow. [00:03:07] Speaker B: While he's pulling that up, have y' all heard about the spinning restaurant that's downtown? [00:03:11] Speaker C: Yeah, that's been there for years. [00:03:12] Speaker B: I have. [00:03:12] Speaker A: I've heard about it. [00:03:13] Speaker B: Oh. [00:03:14] Speaker A: Oh, look at that. [00:03:15] Speaker D: Did not know that. [00:03:17] Speaker B: Okay. Our viewers can't see that. So you want to give them. [00:03:20] Speaker D: They can drop the link. [00:03:22] Speaker A: Yeah, just tell them what the. [00:03:23] Speaker C: Big shout out to Ken Walker. Ken Walker is one of the top guys when it comes to promoting and stuff like that here. [00:03:33] Speaker A: He's very. [00:03:34] Speaker C: He's very informative in the community. [00:03:36] Speaker A: He's an influencer. [00:03:38] Speaker C: He's an influencer. [00:03:38] Speaker A: And I would, you know, I would. I met Ken Walker many, many moons ago before he was even popping like that. The nicest guy ever. Like, he is so personable. So when he had his spot over off of Two Notch, I can't even remember the name of it, but he was the one who started the little crab dinners where you do the specialized sauce with the egg and then all the little crab places popped up. But he was doing this years ago, years ago. And I mean, and people would faithfully go to him and I guess, you know, over time with all the other. [00:04:14] Speaker D: Ones popping up and all that stuff. [00:04:16] Speaker A: Yeah, that just kind of like. But he has found his own lane. [00:04:20] Speaker C: He's found his own lane. [00:04:21] Speaker A: He's doing like, I think he does like a food nil. [00:04:24] Speaker C: Nit deals. All kind of stuff. [00:04:26] Speaker A: Like, it's just amazing where I, you know, witnessed him coming from, you know, just immediate into where he is today. Like, I'm super proud of him. [00:04:36] Speaker C: He's. If you want to know what's going. [00:04:38] Speaker A: On in Columbia, he's the man. [00:04:40] Speaker C: He's the man to find, you know, to watch or follow. And the reason I'm saying that because just like we are bosses of Columbia, he's put me onto many things. Y' all do know we got a man made lagoon coming on Fair Road, right? [00:04:56] Speaker A: Wow. [00:04:56] Speaker C: Fairfield Road. Fairfield Road. And it's gonna have. It's gonna be his own little resort. [00:05:04] Speaker A: Wow. [00:05:04] Speaker C: And it's gonna have 300 houses coming to that area, hotels and all kind of other stuff. So these are the areas that we need to concentrate on on Fairfield and. Yeah, on Fairfield And y' all already know everything out there is cheap. [00:05:20] Speaker A: Fairfield, Monticello, North Maine. [00:05:22] Speaker C: Exactly. And they're building this out there on Fairfield Road. It's a man made beach, a lagoon, whatever. And it's gonna have hotels, everything. And they got a meeting next week, Tuesday about it. [00:05:37] Speaker B: So I mean, that's what it is. [00:05:42] Speaker D: That's what I was. Genification like, I was like, how so. [00:05:45] Speaker B: Then that's what it's going to be, you know, and that they're doing it all over the country. [00:05:49] Speaker C: They're doing it all over the country, but for that area right there. And I'm. And I'm not going to use that for that. We're trying to make Colombia a better place for the better attractions. That land is out there sitting there and no one is using it or whatever. So. Yeah, but it's not just them. We have the opportunity to go in there ourselves. So there's no gentrifying nothing, you know what I'm saying? We got the opportunity to go in there ourselves and take advantage of the opportunity. [00:06:17] Speaker B: No matter who goes in there though, it's gonna be genopine. Yeah, it's gonna. Yes, it is. [00:06:22] Speaker A: But if you think about how like Columbia is very awkwardly laid out because if you think about Columbia, right. [00:06:33] Speaker B: You. [00:06:34] Speaker A: Have a strip that goes through the middle that is strictly city of Columbia. You got Richland county on both sides. It's easier to get money to do those kinds of things with the city than it is to get money for Richland County. So even though it's going to be gentrification, can you really blame the people for. I don't think they're using their power to basically like push people out, but it's just a matter of opportunity of this was where the advantage was. Because not only do they give the money to develop those areas, they're also with matching and offering money to help like revitalize the area. [00:07:21] Speaker C: Exactly. Oh, go ahead. [00:07:23] Speaker A: Yeah. I mean. [00:07:25] Speaker C: Cause if you haven't been out in that area in a long time, it's dead. [00:07:30] Speaker A: It's been dead land that nobody's been touching. [00:07:34] Speaker C: And we had the opportunity because it was a lot black owned out there. [00:07:37] Speaker A: We did. [00:07:37] Speaker C: We had the opportunity to go in. [00:07:39] Speaker A: There and do that ourselves. [00:07:40] Speaker C: And now the city's taking over. And don't get me wrong, we do. They keep saying that we're the minority. We're not. [00:07:47] Speaker D: Not in Columbia. [00:07:48] Speaker C: We're not. We're not. Between Atlanta and Charlotte, Columbia is the number one spot. We're number one in entrepreneurship for Black people, hands down. I'll get the numbers to y' all later on where I got it from, but I'll let y' all know. I learned that from Ken Walker. Anyway, that place out there is terrible. I mean, when you walk out there, all you see is dead woods. Nobody is taking care of the land out there, you know what I'm saying? You see rusted, tore down buildings and stuff like that. Of course, me, if they're going to build a resort out there and I ain't got to go all the way to Myrtle beach or no place, I can stay here. I don't have to go to Charlotte or no place. It's here in Columbia. If I'm going to spend my money, I want to spend my money where I live at. That's right, you know what I'm saying? And here again, we also have the opportunity to go to these meetings and learn exactly what's going on. If we feel like it's going to be gen, how y' all say the word? [00:08:54] Speaker A: Gentrification. [00:08:55] Speaker C: Gentrification or whatever, we have the ability to stop that. But if it's going to work out to where everybody's going to get paid, get some money out there, there's land still left out there. Yeah, I was talking to the guy the other day. Land still left out there that people haven't sold yet, you know what I'm saying? And that's where we come in at. We got the opportunity to go in there and buy that land and make sure that the people do exactly what they say they're going to do with it and make the people in that area rich. Because one thing, yeah, property tax going to go up, but the house values are going to go up. [00:09:30] Speaker A: That part. [00:09:31] Speaker C: You see what I'm saying up there right now, that Fairfield Road, if y' all ever heard of Williamsburg County, Williamsburg county, supposed to be the poorest county in the state of South Carolina. That's what we think of Fairfield Road. [00:09:46] Speaker B: But Fairfield Road is not a county. [00:09:48] Speaker C: No, I'm saying I'm just getting an example. Not a county, but I'm getting at is it's a road as a section, but it's poor, you know what I'm saying? And we got the opportunity and had the opportunity to change that around, you know what I'm saying? Sometimes we get caught up in all the hype on doing this and doing that inside the city, outside the city, and we don't see further in the future on what can be going on 10, 20 years from now, you know, Saying the bigger picture is always 10, 20 years from now. [00:10:24] Speaker A: Cause everybody just feels like. So a couple years back when I really got into like doing different businesses, everybody was just like, oh, we gotta put something on the northeast side. Put something on the northeast side. Put something on the northeast side. Okay. Columbia is a big place. [00:10:40] Speaker B: It's a big place. [00:10:41] Speaker A: Why are we not thinking beyond putting something on the northeast side? [00:10:45] Speaker B: I will tell you why. Because I live on the northeast side. Your mother lives on the northeast side, lives on the northeast side. We want businesses on the northeast side and we will support those businesses on the northeast side. [00:10:58] Speaker A: Right. But if you over saturate one area, you can't just expect everybody to just come. It's other people and other. So my mom lives over there, but I live off Broad river and Broad river needs to be. [00:11:13] Speaker B: You have a lot more options over there far as restaurants. I mean, y' all neighboring Irma, we're neighboring Blackwood. That has absolutely nothing. Blackwood is neighboring Ridgeway. That has absolutely nothing. So, like you all are neighboring Irma, Lexington and all that. We need businesses and I, you know, we need businesses on the northeast. We need restaurants. When we want something good to eat, we definitely have to travel. We don't have great options on the northeast. We really don't. And I can name a couple of restaurants, but I can't say that I'm a fan of those restaurants. [00:11:53] Speaker A: And so you are right. There should be some. But I don't want everybody's mentality to be northeast, northeast, northeast. Because let me tell you where we went wrong. So we started building all these houses on the northeast side. Now you gotta expand all these damn roads because you can't haul all the cars to going in and out of their homes. Coming from Summit Lake Carolina. What's this little road here, by the little. [00:12:21] Speaker B: But why do you consider that going wrong? [00:12:24] Speaker A: Because you expanded too much and now everything is like compact and it's too many people in one area. [00:12:34] Speaker D: But I got pushed push them. They've been trying to do these roles since I was stationed at Fort Jackson. [00:12:40] Speaker B: Correct. They're doing the roles. But I hard scrabble like I enjoy. [00:12:44] Speaker C: The Northeast, but other those people who are going to bring what you need there. Everybody can live there. Everybody can be Indians, but you're going to have to be a chief somewhere. Somewhere. [00:12:54] Speaker A: Correct. [00:12:54] Speaker C: Correct. [00:12:56] Speaker B: So that's what Yoshi is saying. She has a problem with the fact that everyone is saying, I don't have. [00:13:01] Speaker A: A problem with it. What I'm saying is we need to get out. The mentality of if we want to open the business, the. The only and best place to open a business is on northeast side. Because Columbia is a big area and there are so many. Like, I want people to tap in. And I'm going to just tell y' all this. How many of y' all go over to West Columbia? [00:13:22] Speaker B: I'm not going to. [00:13:24] Speaker A: But hold on. Why don't you go to West Columbia? [00:13:26] Speaker B: Because I don't want to. [00:13:28] Speaker A: Why? Why? [00:13:29] Speaker B: I don't like to travel. I don't like to drive. [00:13:31] Speaker A: Okay. [00:13:32] Speaker D: But the traffic gets horrible. [00:13:34] Speaker A: So when I open. Not harvest in West Columbia, like, whether. [00:13:40] Speaker C: Well, right now, West Columbia is. [00:13:43] Speaker B: Connects. [00:13:46] Speaker A: Casey, West Columbia by the airport. [00:13:48] Speaker C: Yeah. Like I said, I'm gonna say that that's connected. The poor part of Columbia. You know what I'm saying? [00:13:54] Speaker B: Every part of Columbia is. [00:13:55] Speaker A: No, no, no, no, no, it's not. [00:13:57] Speaker B: That part of Columbia is not poor. [00:13:59] Speaker A: No, it's not. [00:14:00] Speaker C: And when I said the West. [00:14:01] Speaker B: Okay, so for US Acres, we can say for US Acres. [00:14:04] Speaker C: Has felt under the. [00:14:06] Speaker B: Is a little bit more expensive, but even there is mesh with the ghetto or whatnot. [00:14:11] Speaker A: But this is where our. This is where our airport is. So why aren't we tapping into putting businesses in or around where our airport is? Why aren't we tapping into putting more businesses and different things further out, going out towards. [00:14:33] Speaker B: I'm gonna tell you why. [00:14:35] Speaker A: Right? [00:14:35] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:14:36] Speaker B: I will tell you why. Because the demographics look more like us on the Northeast. So that's why we're concerned about the Northeast. The demographics look more like. What? [00:14:46] Speaker C: You mean we're everywhere. Besides, I know we're everywhere. [00:14:49] Speaker B: But if you go. If you go close to the airport, the demographics start looking a little different over there. Okay, let's be honest here. So that's why we're more concerned about where we live. I mean, we want to take care of ourselves first, right? [00:15:06] Speaker A: No, I want to take care of the community. [00:15:08] Speaker B: Okay. I want to take care of where I live first. Yeah. [00:15:11] Speaker A: I mean, but that's your community. I. I don't live on that side. [00:15:15] Speaker B: Okay. [00:15:16] Speaker A: I don't. I live. I live closer to West Columbia and Harbison and Irmo, so. And it ain't a lot of us over there. [00:15:25] Speaker B: Let's do a comparison, though. Let's do a comparison to Harbison. Let's just do harvesting alone. Okay. And compared to Sandhills, right. Which one has the most businesses, period? So that's why we're concerned about the fact we don't have those business Those restaurants and businesses. We don't even have a decent mall in Columbia on the Northeast, because when. [00:15:54] Speaker A: We had one, we. [00:15:56] Speaker B: Again, you're saying what we didn't have, but we're talking about why we feel like we need. [00:16:01] Speaker C: Yeah, but when you need. [00:16:02] Speaker A: But you can't stop what you had first. But when you. When you got it and when you got it and we didn't know what to do with it, that makes investors and people feel like, well, that was a bad idea. They don't want to do that again. Exactly. So you. It has to be a proven system of where this money is generating this money is increasing. [00:16:24] Speaker B: And let's be clear, when those businesses started failing, a lot of the people that are here now weren't here to even support those businesses. Like, a lot of people have moved here from Los Angeles, from. I mean, from California. I'm gonna just say California as a whole. Chicago, Alabama, New Jersey, New York. So there are a different demographic of people that's moving here. [00:16:46] Speaker D: A lot of people are moving down. [00:16:47] Speaker B: Correct. Here to South Carolina. And I'm a realtor. I. I am a realtor sitting here. And so I do know because most of the people who are my clients, they are people who are coming from out of town. There are very few people. And especially. And I'm not trying to be funny or anything, but with the increase in prices on homes or whatnot and interest rates, a lot of locals aren't able to purchase. Like these people who are coming from out of town, they're coming. They're. They've sold their homes in California, in New York and Chicago, and they come out with all this cash, and they either are able to put half the money down for the home or buy just straight out or whatnot. So, again, people are moving from different places, and Colombia is a melting pot right now. It really is. [00:17:41] Speaker A: It is. And. And me being military and you can say this, Liz, it shouldn't be a, well, I only want to live on this side of town, or I only want to go shopping over here. I only want to do this over here. Like, Colombia is Colombia a whole city. So it shouldn't be a. Well, this is more of this here. It's more of this. Yeah. But I feel like if you have what people want, they will travel to whatever area of Columbia it's at, and they will patronize it. Because when you're paying your taxes, you're not paying your taxes to Northeast, you're. [00:18:17] Speaker B: Not paying your taxes to school taxes. [00:18:20] Speaker A: And, well, hold on. In your area but when I'm saying when I'm paying South Carolina state tax or Columbia tax, it's not designated to one. Where I live at is gonna be designated to my school system. But technically it's going to the overall county or if you're a city, if. [00:18:43] Speaker B: You'Re somebody like me. You don't care how great the restaurant is. You don't wanna drive. It's not about where you know any of that. The demographics over there in your area are Irma or Lexington. I don't like to drive, so I want restaurants on my side of the city. [00:19:00] Speaker C: Well, let' about this then. [00:19:01] Speaker B: Let's talk about what. [00:19:02] Speaker C: What's. What was the downfall of Sand Hill? [00:19:07] Speaker B: I felt like the downfall. I feel like it really, really went down during COVID Yeah, because people cannot. [00:19:14] Speaker D: Afford to pay those rents. And those people who are so greedy and they just kept on raising the prices. And you see, even the big companies that were in those places don't even scare. [00:19:26] Speaker B: That's a part of it reason why those offices or spaces are vacant. I've always heard because of the pricing. [00:19:34] Speaker C: I went to the northeast side years ago to rent one of the spots to turn into a nice restaurant lounge or whatever. The place still vacant? The place still vacant. [00:19:47] Speaker B: So if we gonna keep it 100. Also when these businesses open up, the customer service be great in the beginning, but then it's how they treat people that stops them from coming in and supporting their businesses as well. So that being that they do know that there aren't that many businesses on northeast. And yes, we do need more. [00:20:09] Speaker C: Number two things. [00:20:10] Speaker A: I don't care what you say. [00:20:19] Speaker C: But. [00:20:19] Speaker B: You didn't drive your bike. [00:20:20] Speaker A: I didn't say that you didn't need anymore. [00:20:23] Speaker C: No, you're right, you're right. But unlike Broad river, which we think is a tough area and stuff like that. Right. Sand Hill did he say? I'm thinking. I'm telling you thinking because it's not true. Sand Hill don't have a lot of traffic now neither. Because during that time when it was so popular and it was letting all the kids run freely around there, they were gang banging out there. They were tearing up that area. So now people didn't want to go out there no more. When the people didn't want to go out there no more, they lost businesses. [00:20:52] Speaker B: Sure. [00:20:52] Speaker C: Did you see what I'm saying? Cuz you let the kids run around and these the same kids. That's family oriented houses over these one single family homes. That's over there. [00:21:01] Speaker B: Single family home. Okay. [00:21:02] Speaker C: Yeah, the single family homes. When I say single family homes, I. [00:21:04] Speaker B: Know what you mean. [00:21:04] Speaker C: I'm talking about. [00:21:06] Speaker B: I had to think about it for a second. I was thinking. [00:21:10] Speaker C: That's why I was trying to figure it up. [00:21:12] Speaker B: The wheels were spinning like what you mean. [00:21:14] Speaker C: But okay, you guys over there on the northeast side, you just let your kids do whatever you want to do now, you know. [00:21:22] Speaker B: Wait, hold up, hold up, wait, hold up, hold up. [00:21:36] Speaker A: Tell me N on Broad river ain't got no cars to get over there, ladies and gentlemen, is that. She sold me my house over on. [00:21:44] Speaker B: Broad river when I was selling you that house on Broad river when I was selling. [00:21:49] Speaker C: It wasn't bad then. [00:21:50] Speaker B: No. Yeah, it was. Wait, hold up. Let's be honest. When you was purchasing that house on Broad R. Right. She has a beautiful home, right? You wouldn't even know. [00:22:01] Speaker A: You would never know. [00:22:02] Speaker B: You would never know that. That's right over there in the ghetto all around. But don't say I just like, sold you. [00:22:10] Speaker A: Is this the lady that sold me my river? [00:22:16] Speaker C: I will never go over there. [00:22:17] Speaker B: And I never. I kept on. Yeah, don't. I'll be nothing. You, you. Your realtor is Kim. We talking about her realtor, okay? Yeah, her realtor, my realtor. We don't like when y' all say that. It's realtor. [00:22:32] Speaker A: Okay? [00:22:33] Speaker D: They breaking cars everywhere. [00:22:34] Speaker C: Everywhere. [00:22:35] Speaker B: It's crazy. Doesn't have an address. [00:22:37] Speaker C: And my car got broken three full time. [00:22:40] Speaker D: And a gated community in my yard, too. [00:22:42] Speaker B: Oh, Lord. Community. [00:22:45] Speaker D: Yeah, they have. [00:22:47] Speaker B: I never had any crime in my neighborhood. [00:22:49] Speaker A: Oh, my God. [00:22:53] Speaker B: Look. No, I'm being honest. [00:22:56] Speaker A: I never had any problem in my neighborhood. It just has not happened over on your end. [00:23:03] Speaker B: We gonna knock on wood. [00:23:04] Speaker A: Yes, but. [00:23:05] Speaker B: Yeah. So crime has no address. [00:23:10] Speaker A: So this was my idea in regards to what y' all brought up last show. So I used to live in Virginia for like 10 years. And they used to have this spot in Virginia called Peddlers Village. [00:23:23] Speaker C: What part of Virginia? [00:23:26] Speaker A: Hampton, Newport News area. So it's like a prime example. We have Soda City downtown in Columbia. So Pedlars Village was like a indoor. So the city, I mean, because if it's raining, you can't really participate in Soda City. So I thought about, well, hell, West Columbia has the flea market. We have nothing. Where it's like an outdoor metropolis where we can explore and meet different business owners and experience their products and different things like that. So why wouldn't we just take a dead area like Sand Hills and turn it into like a outdoor market? Or outdoor community gathering where we can shop everybody's business. I just felt like it was a total waste of space. Why not use it, you know? [00:24:19] Speaker D: I wonder. I mean, I'm sure it would be a good. If we can do it, like, once a month or something like that. But I guess we'll have to find out, like, who you have to call. Cause they gonna want some money. [00:24:30] Speaker C: You have to go to cities. Money makes the world go around and stuff like that. [00:24:35] Speaker A: But my whole thing is you're trying to generate income. So if it's clowns jumping up and down in the parking lot, but it brings business there for you to make the money, why would you oppose that? You see what I'm saying? So, to me, you're just looking for a way to bring something that's gonna consistently bring income. [00:24:58] Speaker B: And we ain't breaking the law, but we can get our own lot for that. [00:25:04] Speaker A: You could. [00:25:05] Speaker B: We could get our own lot and do it every. You know, however often we would like to do it. [00:25:12] Speaker A: And where would you recommend we get this lot? [00:25:13] Speaker B: On the northeast. [00:25:19] Speaker C: I say Monticello. [00:25:20] Speaker A: I say that, too. [00:25:21] Speaker B: I say the northeast. I say one of them you already knew. She know the answer to the question. That's why she asked. [00:25:28] Speaker A: No, no, ma' am. [00:25:30] Speaker B: Yes, ma' am. [00:25:33] Speaker A: And if we gonna be in the northeast, I say let's go out towards Blythewood, Winnsborough. Well, Ridgeway. [00:25:41] Speaker B: Ridgeway. Ridgeway has been a hot topic between myself and Mo. [00:25:49] Speaker A: It's gonna be the next hot topic. [00:25:51] Speaker B: And I can't. [00:25:53] Speaker D: This is expensive, too. I was looking at some stuff out there, and it was. [00:25:58] Speaker B: Well, it's probably starting because they already know. But I've been telling. I've been saying this for years now. Ridgeway. And I keep on sanitary. Everybody. Ridgeway is next. [00:26:12] Speaker D: Going out towards Charlotte. [00:26:13] Speaker B: With that being said, yes, right off of 77. [00:26:17] Speaker C: I got a meeting with the mayor Monday. When I meet with him Monday, he's gonna let me know what we can do, what we can't do, what they're looking for and stuff like that. He's gonna show me some land that needs to be developed. My plan was to go out there, get some property, start out with the metal buildings on them, as in a little strip mall. [00:26:45] Speaker D: And you can. [00:26:46] Speaker C: And that way you can put all this different stuff in it. See what I'm saying? That's the thing that we can do as a whole or whatever. But this is something I was thinking about before I even met y' all guys. You know, like, I Said I got a meeting with him Monday. When I leave the meeting, I will come back and share with you guys on what's going on and stuff like that. But Lifewood is far from being developed. [00:27:13] Speaker B: Oh yeah, all the way. [00:27:14] Speaker C: It's far from being developed. They need a lot of things and we can be one of the ones again in that area talking about million dollar projects. [00:27:24] Speaker B: Blightwood is far from being developed. However, Blackwood is expensive because it is a sought after area. [00:27:31] Speaker C: No. So we gotta jump on these things now. Everything that we're talking about has already been planned 10, 20 years ago. We're just talking about it now. So we can't sit back and wait for it to get developed in our face and talk about, damn, that was our idea. Wish we had did that. [00:27:54] Speaker B: Or we can't give our ideas to anyone either. [00:27:56] Speaker C: I understand we on the podcast talking or whatever and stuff like that. [00:28:00] Speaker B: It'll get edited out. [00:28:02] Speaker A: They just listening. It ain't like they really going up and do nothing. [00:28:06] Speaker B: There's some people on this, if you. [00:28:08] Speaker A: Get them, you get a map of Columbia. And this is what I appreciate so much about. When my husband was alive, he used to take me. I'm from New York, so I don't know Columbia, but I do adventure seek. So I like to know what's out here. And he's from here, so these his roots. But he would take me places and tell me, all right, now you gotta get us back home. So I drove out to Blair. So I drove out and then I saw how Blair intersects back over to Blythewood. I would have never known that before and never knew how far Fairfield Road went out, never knew how far Monticello Road went out. But it all kind of intersects together. So there's so much land in between this little area that's undeveloped and untapped that we don't know about. And really it intersects with the area that we're talking about. [00:29:04] Speaker C: What you're talking about. [00:29:05] Speaker A: Yeah. So I appreciate him for, you know, just kind of taking me out there and showing me that. Because I was like, dang, I didn't know. Honey, let me tell you, you would be surprised if you didn't. [00:29:17] Speaker C: You would have never went out there. [00:29:18] Speaker A: Right? You got to travel because there's nothing out there. There's nothing out there for you to go to. So why would you go out there? [00:29:26] Speaker D: Yeah, I have no idea. [00:29:27] Speaker A: So, yeah. [00:29:29] Speaker B: So if someone came into town and they had kids and they wanted to take their kids somewhere fun, where would you suggest they go? [00:29:40] Speaker C: The new spot they just opened up on Forest Drive. It's family friendly and it's called. [00:29:47] Speaker D: I didn't even know that. [00:29:48] Speaker C: Oh man. They just opened up on the floor. [00:29:49] Speaker B: And see this is why we want. [00:29:51] Speaker C: To get the information out two weeks ago or whatever. It got a indoor go kart. [00:29:57] Speaker D: Oh really? [00:29:58] Speaker C: It has video games. [00:29:59] Speaker B: And where is it? [00:30:00] Speaker C: Forest Drive between Sam's and Walmart. [00:30:03] Speaker B: Oh, what's the name of it? [00:30:04] Speaker C: The Flip Zone. [00:30:05] Speaker B: Flip Zone. Okay, you all. You might want to check out Flip Zone. [00:30:09] Speaker A: Little where you being store. It used to be a bin store. [00:30:12] Speaker C: Yeah. [00:30:13] Speaker A: Oh, I didn't even know that was. [00:30:14] Speaker B: Back up in there. [00:30:16] Speaker C: It turned that into one large entertainment complex. [00:30:20] Speaker B: So Flip Zone, everyone. Okay. For me. [00:30:23] Speaker C: And it's open seven days a week for me. [00:30:25] Speaker B: There's a couple of places. One, it would be the Lake Carolina on the north northeast farmers market on Thursday. There are food trucks and face painting and different vendors out there. So I. That is definitely a family friendly environment. It's amazing. Another place is Skateland is borderline Elgin Columbia, but it's. It's Richland county. But I believe it's. It's in illness. So skateboarding Skate land. [00:30:59] Speaker C: We can. We can. [00:31:01] Speaker B: So those are my two recommendations for kids. [00:31:04] Speaker D: Liz, you have my kids only like. Like Dave and Busters and the trampoline parks. [00:31:10] Speaker B: But didn't I recently go to Frankie's fun part. [00:31:13] Speaker D: Frankie's is old though. Like buses is newer than Frankie's. But yeah. Frank, is this okay? We still hang out there. [00:31:23] Speaker A: Yoshi, don't ask me nothing about no kids loading. No light cherry. [00:31:29] Speaker B: That explains why you didn't show up to the Easter egg hunt. [00:31:32] Speaker A: No, that's not. I was getting my hair done. [00:31:35] Speaker C: Really? [00:31:36] Speaker A: Oh, this what we doing? No, I don't know about children's gathering spots because I don't have little people anymore. I don't. So that's just it. Now I had every intention, but this was Easter weekend, so I'm waiting in line to get my hair done. Yeah, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. [00:31:56] Speaker B: Liz, were you at the Easter again? [00:31:58] Speaker D: I was. [00:31:59] Speaker B: Good Mo. [00:32:00] Speaker A: Your hair was done? [00:32:01] Speaker C: Most definitely. [00:32:02] Speaker D: What's my hair done or. I don't. I don't even know. [00:32:05] Speaker B: You would have showed up. [00:32:09] Speaker A: We're not gonna put any energy in that. [00:32:12] Speaker B: Okay, so. So we have performance market. [00:32:17] Speaker A: So where do old. Where do old me old ladies go to have a good time in Columbia? [00:32:23] Speaker B: Not to Easter egg. Damn right. Damn right. [00:32:29] Speaker A: They stay home in their house and mind their business. Cause their hair don't be done in their time now. So I know what Mo is going to say. [00:32:39] Speaker C: What's that? [00:32:39] Speaker A: Well, and go to Mahogany. [00:32:41] Speaker C: No, I really wasn't. [00:32:42] Speaker A: I was actually. [00:32:45] Speaker C: I was actually sitting here thinking, right? And I don't know where the old ladies go at, man. [00:32:50] Speaker A: So I'm a. I'm a older 50, mid-50s. I have, you know, my money looking right. I want to go somewhere nice, put on some. Put on my good clothes, have some drinks, have something good to eat, meet some people. [00:33:04] Speaker B: I will say right now, and I'm just going to say this just because before I went there the other day, I wouldn't have been able to tell you anything because remember when we were doing our lunch, our boss's lunch. I put it out there, you know what upscale black owned restaurant, for us to have our lunch, right? The boss's lunch. And everybody came up with Epicurean, right? There was not any other options, like, right? Until when I say I liked Epicurean. We went to Champagne. Champagne, you know, I think their menu is upscale. The environment is upscale. The location is downtown. I would say you can go there. Hopefully they keep it the way that it is and they bring in that downtown crowd with the business suits and ties or whatnot. I would like to see that for them. No. So I would like to see that for them. Yeah, it will be champagne. [00:34:20] Speaker C: We have to patronize it and bring other people there and show them. But they do have places around Columbia that, like we said, are hidden gems that people actually go to. [00:34:34] Speaker B: Have you all ever been to. And I've never been there, but I hear people talking about it and I would like to go there, you know, as a group eventually. But the cigar lounge in Blackwood. [00:34:46] Speaker C: Yeah, I talk to those guys all the time. [00:34:47] Speaker B: Yeah, I hear good things about that Cigar lounge in Blackwood. I've never been there. [00:34:53] Speaker D: I never heard of it. [00:34:56] Speaker A: I can't do the cigar smoke. It's too much for my. Yeah, I gotta sense it. [00:35:00] Speaker C: They got it. They got it actually. [00:35:04] Speaker B: Ventilated. [00:35:05] Speaker C: Ventilated. [00:35:06] Speaker A: Yeah. I don't know. Just the last. The couple I've been in, I just like, oh, Lord. [00:35:11] Speaker B: I can tell you I went to one and I. I ran about it there. [00:35:17] Speaker A: And that's a part of being a good business person and knowing your business. Don't open no shit like that. And you know, your ventilation bad. [00:35:23] Speaker D: And my bathroom stinks. [00:35:25] Speaker A: Yeah. Oh, I can't stand a terrible bathroom. Y' all gotta do better. [00:35:30] Speaker D: You can smell it all the way down the hallway. [00:35:32] Speaker B: Terrible yeah, we're not gonna talk. We're not gonna. I don't wanna bash anybody's businesses, but when you think of those businesses, when people know those businesses. [00:35:43] Speaker C: Well, the problem is, I think a. [00:35:44] Speaker B: Bathroom, everybody can make or break a business. [00:35:47] Speaker A: It can. [00:35:47] Speaker B: A bathroom can make or break a business. [00:35:49] Speaker A: But, Mo, you need to keep you a little old lady. [00:35:53] Speaker B: Let me tell you. Mo has ocd, honey. And, girl, somebody drop a napkin or leave a napkin on the table, girl, it don't play. And everybody picks it up. My sister was there one time, she said, girl, Mo got ocd. I said, bury myself. [00:36:11] Speaker A: Mo, don't. Don't. I. I used to do the same thing. They be like, we still drinking that? [00:36:17] Speaker B: Oh, okay. [00:36:17] Speaker A: Cause it was just sitting there and I was just taking. So, yeah, that's. That's me too. I can't stand to see nothing on the floor. Yeah. [00:36:24] Speaker D: He does not see. [00:36:25] Speaker A: That's crazy. [00:36:27] Speaker D: Yeah. [00:36:28] Speaker A: All right, well, this. [00:36:29] Speaker B: Well, you can't have a small kid around. Cause baby Cash be running me low. I just let him stare up until it's time for him to go. Like, just do whatever you want. Anything. [00:36:41] Speaker A: Children know when they have an OCD parent. I grew up with an OCD mama. Trust me. [00:36:46] Speaker B: No, I didn't. [00:36:47] Speaker A: Yeah, it's different. [00:36:48] Speaker D: Mine know better. [00:36:50] Speaker C: Next episode is when? Two weeks from now. [00:36:53] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:36:54] Speaker C: And I guess we got something that we. Some things that we can bring to the people. [00:36:58] Speaker B: Okay, so as a vote, do we believe that the Northeast deserve more businesses. [00:37:10] Speaker A: As a whole? Do we think that Columbia in general needs more businesses so it can be more attractive? [00:37:18] Speaker D: Well, yes, of course. [00:37:21] Speaker A: That's what I was saying. [00:37:22] Speaker B: Oh. Do we believe that the harvesting area deserved more businesses than the Northeast? [00:37:27] Speaker A: Yeah. She didn't say anything. I didn't say anything about harvesting? No. Hell no. [00:37:32] Speaker B: Yeah. The show over. Yeah. No, the show is not over because the harvesting is right. Hop skipping a jump from you. [00:37:37] Speaker A: I didn't say that about harvesting. [00:37:39] Speaker B: But it's a hop skipping a jump from you, like everything. [00:37:42] Speaker A: We're going to have a gang war. [00:37:43] Speaker B: With me all the time. Why you have said better than mine. [00:37:48] Speaker A: I be. I'm just not understanding. [00:37:50] Speaker D: She is from Los Angeles. [00:37:53] Speaker B: No, I'm from New Orleans. Raised in Los Angeles. [00:37:55] Speaker A: Okay, ladies and gentlemen, that's our time for today.