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Jimmy Farrell
Jimmy Farrell

Jimmy writes CHS Happenings on Thursdays, then spends the rest of the week building the systems behind it. The best part is the part that happens offline — Dinner Club, the Regulars, and whatever's next.


🌴 Mount Pleasant just paid $28.5 million for houses nobody will build

🌴 Mount Pleasant just paid $28.5 million for houses nobody will build

Plus a seven-month reno that took three years, and Avondale's gold door opens

Oct 29, 2026

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4 min read

The Gold Door on Magnolia Road

The Gold Door on Magnolia Road

Avondale's new cocktail bar started as a walnut tree

Oct 28, 2026

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2 min read

West Ashley Finally Gets Its Sunrise

West Ashley Finally Gets Its Sunrise

The dessert mural building is trading cookies for grits

Oct 28, 2026

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2 min read

Wonder Works Keeps Outgrowing Belle Hall

Wonder Works Keeps Outgrowing Belle Hall

Second upsize in the same shopping center since 2017

Oct 28, 2026

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2 min read

$28.5 Million for 1,500 Houses Nobody Will Build

$28.5 Million for 1,500 Houses Nobody Will Build

Mount Pleasant's Wando River deal, run through a calculator

Oct 28, 2026

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2 min read

James Island Ordered a Steakhouse

James Island Ordered a Steakhouse

The couple behind The Harlow asked the island what it wanted, and the answer came with a stage

Oct 28, 2026

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3 min read

Live Music This Weekend

Live Music This Weekend

For your weekend of Friday, October 30

Oct 28, 2026

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1 min read

🌴 Shot 240 years ago this week, and Church Street says he's still here

🌴 Shot 240 years ago this week, and Church Street says he's still here

Plus the two best pies in Charleston, and a new private club with a 400-member cap

Oct 22, 2026

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4 min read

Charleston's Next Hot Spot Opened in 1992

Charleston's Next Hot Spot Opened in 1992

Three decades in, Anson is still the table everyone wants

Oct 21, 2026

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3 min read

A Hotel Was Supposed to Bring 159 Homes Back to Meeting Street

A Hotel Was Supposed to Bring 159 Homes Back to Meeting Street

The homes have since moved to Mary Street

Oct 21, 2026

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1 min read

Bees Ferry Gets Its Own Night Out

Bees Ferry Gets Its Own Night Out

Lagers, tacos and golf sims, with a dentist next door

Oct 21, 2026

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2 min read

Johns Island's Pool Runs on Bat Time

Johns Island's Pool Runs on Bat Time

A federally protected bat just set the chainsaw schedule for the island's first city rec center

Oct 21, 2026

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2 min read

Tidewater's 400-Member Countdown

Tidewater's 400-Member Countdown

Golf sims on the Neck, and a hard cap on who gets in

Oct 21, 2026

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2 min read

The Ghost With a Paper Trail

The Ghost With a Paper Trail

He took a bullet 240 years ago this week, and Church Street says he never left

Oct 21, 2026

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2 min read

🌴 Mount P's never-opened restaurant lands a big name

🌴 Mount P's never-opened restaurant lands a big name

Plus where four chefs really eat, and the eyewear brand that picked King Street first

Oct 15, 2026

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4 min read

Mount P's $5 million restaurant that never opened just found its operator

Mount P's $5 million restaurant that never opened just found its operator

The Husk crew is in. The concept is a secret

Oct 14, 2026

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2 min read

Charleston's new traffic rule can't touch the 1,500 homes already coming

Charleston's new traffic rule can't touch the 1,500 homes already coming

Johns Island's math problem, in one number

Oct 14, 2026

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2 min read

An eyewear brand chose King Street for its first store anywhere

An eyewear brand chose King Street for its first store anywhere

Warby Parker is right up the block

Oct 14, 2026

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2 min read

Eight new places to sweat in Charleston, and half of them have a reformer

Eight new places to sweat in Charleston, and half of them have a reformer

Pilates keeps winning the real estate

Oct 14, 2026

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2 min read

Live Oak Square wants to grow again

Live Oak Square wants to grow again

Johns Island keeps adding rooftops, and retail follows rooftops

Oct 14, 2026

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1 min read

🌴 The Lowline got another $2 million and a new finish line

🌴 The Lowline got another $2 million and a new finish line

Plus a parked $1 billion port terminal, and a rooftop Italian spot at Navy Yard

Oct 8, 2026

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4 min read

A $13.5 million flip, still no shovel in the ground

A $13.5 million flip, still no shovel in the ground

Third owner, same vacant Pepsi plant

Oct 8, 2026

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4 min read

The Lowline got another $2 million and a new finish line

The Lowline got another $2 million and a new finish line

The finish line moved again. So did the price

Oct 8, 2026

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2 min read

Charleston parked its $1 billion terminal. Here's the math

Charleston parked its $1 billion terminal. Here's the math

A billion dollars doesn't fill itself

Oct 7, 2026

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3 min read

Riva Mare brings 165 rooftop seats and a lobster spaghetti to Navy Yard

Riva Mare brings 165 rooftop seats and a lobster spaghetti to Navy Yard

Lobster spaghetti, free parking, and good luck before 8:45

Oct 7, 2026

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2 min read

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