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Restaurant makes way for store

A building that has served several restaurants has been razed to make way for a dollar store.

The former Southland Restaurant at 1270 John C. Calhoun Drive was recently torn down to make way for a Dollar Tree, according to property transaction records at the Orangeburg County Courthouse.

Local Dollar Tree officials referred all calls to the company’s corporate offices. Several attempts to reach corporate officials this week have proven unsuccessful.

According to Dollar Tree’s website, the store will be between 8,000 square feet and 10,500 square feet with at least 70 feet of store frontage.

Dollar Tree carries items from house wares to party supplies. All items are $1 or less.

It will be the second Dollar Tree to open in Orangeburg. The other is on North Road near IHOP. There is also a Dollar Tree in Bamberg.

Southland Restaurant opened in 1942 on Southland Road off Glover Street. It was located there for 63 years before moving to the John C. Calhoun Drive location in September 2005.

The restaurant specialized in country-style cooking. It was formerly owned by Mae Smoak and then Raymond and Sybil Kemmerlin. The Kemmerlins also owned Kemmerlin Meats Inc.