When sports stadiums do double duty

By Mike Switzer

Published May 24, 2024 at 6:30 AM EDT

Andy and Ray Smith, owners of Modos Media — Mike Switzer, host of the South Carolina Business Review

You may be familiar with our next guest’s event venue because each year it’s home to a very popular women’s professional tennis tournament. But for other times of the year, it becomes a popular concert destination. What is involved in so much double duty for one venue? Mike Switzer interviews Chris Meany, general manager of the Credit One Stadium at Daniel Island, S.C.

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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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