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Large, valuable property recently conserved in S.C.

By Mike Switzer

Published July 4, 2024 at 6:30 AM EDT

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Dale Threatt-Taylor, executive director of The Nature Conservancy in South Carolina

This is a replay of an earlier episode which originally aired March 22, 2024. Once upon a time, a $35 million property, highly desirable for development, would have been out of reach for conservationists. But recently, our next guest’s organization was able to accomplish exactly that with the purchase of a 4400-acre property on deep water along I-95 in our state. Could it be that land conservation is now big business here? Mike Switzer interviews Dale Threatt-Taylor, executive director of The Nature Conservancy in South Carolina.

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Mike Switzer

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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