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Real Estate Activity Buzzing after Scout Motors Announcement

By Mike Switzer

Published July 20, 2023 at 5:30 AM EDT

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The largest economic development project ever announced in our state, Scout Motors coming to Richland County, has, as would be expected, ratcheted up real estate activity in that part of the Midlands. And our next guest is going to give us some insight into what is indeed happening. Mike Switzer interviews Darren Rhodes, managing broker with SouthEast Land and Real Estate in Orangeburg, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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