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Jimmy Farrell

Jimmy Farrell spent 31 years making deals in commercial real estate — retail leasing, redevelopment, the whole DC grind. Then Charleston happened. He and his wife Kim traded the Beltway for the Lowcountry, built The Farrell Group, and never looked back. Over a career spanning both markets, he's closed 725+ deals and nearly $1.2 billion in real estate. The zip codes changed. The standards didn't. In 2024, he launched CHS Happenings — a weekly newsletter covering the city he loves, with 10,000+ subscribers who actually open it. He lives in Mount Pleasant, runs too many miles, and is probably thinking about Charleston right now.


Truth Comes to Rutledge

Truth Comes to Rutledge

Texas Monthly's No. 9 just picked Charleston

Aug 13, 2026

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1 min read

🌴 The old YMCA is about to start serving uni

🌴 The old YMCA is about to start serving uni

Plus Kate Spade's co-founder picks King Street for store #10, and the banana pudding born from a mistake

Aug 13, 2026

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4 min read

The Bell Stopped Ringing

The Bell Stopped Ringing

Twelve years behind a red door

Aug 12, 2026

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2 min read

Pork Floss, Taro Mochi, and No Announcement

Pork Floss, Taro Mochi, and No Announcement

Rivers Avenue got quietly interesting

Aug 12, 2026

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1 min read

The Missing Tooth on King Street

The Missing Tooth on King Street

A dead school, fourteen offices, one restaurant

Aug 12, 2026

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2 min read

The Old YMCA Is About to Start Serving Uni

The Old YMCA Is About to Start Serving Uni

Grand Central's taco guy landed on Cannon Street.

Aug 11, 2026

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1 min read

🌴 I built you a room and right now it's empty

🌴 I built you a room and right now it's empty

Free to join. The good part costs money, and you can grab it today

Aug 6, 2026

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5 min read

Folly Beach Capped Its Rentals Three Years Ago. Nobody Has Checked the Math

Folly Beach Capped Its Rentals Three Years Ago. Nobody Has Checked the Math

The audit arrives before the amendments do

Aug 6, 2026

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2 min read

The Finest Hospitality School in America Is Coming to Calhoun Street

The Finest Hospitality School in America Is Coming to Calhoun Street

The College Lodge comes down first

Aug 6, 2026

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2 min read

Mount Pleasant Just Got a Butcher Worth Knowing

Mount Pleasant Just Got a Butcher Worth Knowing

Everything cut in house, every day

Aug 6, 2026

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2 min read

North Charleston Is Getting Duckpins, Axes and a Beer With a Margarita on Top

North Charleston Is Getting Duckpins, Axes and a Beer With a Margarita on Top

Dorchester Road goes full South Beach

Aug 6, 2026

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1 min read

Charleston Is the Seventh Happiest City in America. Columbia Is the 86th

Charleston Is the Seventh Happiest City in America. Columbia Is the 86th

Happiness stops responding to money at $75,000

Aug 6, 2026

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2 min read

🌴 They campaigned against it. Then they voted for it

🌴 They campaigned against it. Then they voted for it

Plus a butler who knocks at five with your drink, and the latte a rubber duck built

Jul 30, 2026

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4 min read

West Ashley Stopped Driving Downtown for Wine

West Ashley Stopped Driving Downtown for Wine

Savannah Highway got its own bottle shop

Jul 29, 2026

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2 min read

The Room Booed

The Room Booed

Ten years of planning. One vote. Everybody lost something

Jul 29, 2026

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2 min read

Six Years Vacant, Now $13.5 Million

Six Years Vacant, Now $13.5 Million

Somebody else's turn on Meeting Street

Jul 29, 2026

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2 min read

She'd Never Been to Charleston

She'd Never Been to Charleston

Then a rubber duck went viral

Jul 29, 2026

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2 min read

The Hotel Is Becoming a Resort

The Hotel Is Becoming a Resort

And the Market Street shops are collateral

Jul 29, 2026

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2 min read

The $1.2 Billion Terminal Charleston Waited 24 Years For

The $1.2 Billion Terminal Charleston Waited 24 Years For

A generational investment, a rough first five years

Jul 23, 2026

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3 min read

🌴 Charleston's newest port terminal is about to go dark

🌴 Charleston's newest port terminal is about to go dark

Plus a Daufuskie Island native's stunning James Beard win, and the Italian spot Charleston can't stop booking

Jul 23, 2026

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4 min read

The Revolutionary War blockbuster that almost skipped South Carolina

The Revolutionary War blockbuster that almost skipped South Carolina

How Charleston beat out Ireland for the part

Jul 23, 2026

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1 min read

The Italian restaurant Charleston can’t stop talking about, explained

The Italian restaurant Charleston can’t stop talking about, explained

What to know before you book a table

Jul 23, 2026

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1 min read

Mount Pleasant’s makeover just picked its next tenant

Mount Pleasant’s makeover just picked its next tenant

Not everyone survived the rent hike

Jul 23, 2026

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1 min read

The Lowcountry’s dessert map just got three new pins

The Lowcountry’s dessert map just got three new pins

Cake, churros, and a bakery worth the wait

Jul 23, 2026

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1 min read

A Daufuskie Island legend just joined food’s hall of fame

A Daufuskie Island legend just joined food’s hall of fame

Gullah storytelling, officially canonized

Jul 23, 2026

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1 min read

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