If you've been a CHS Happenings reader for a while, this one might feel familiar.
Back in our November 7, 2025 issue, we flagged the rumor — Mount Pleasant's Moultrie Plaza was about to get a Nantucket-based specialty seafood and butcher market on the corner. This week the Post & Courier made it official: Nantucket's Meat and Fish Market has filed for its liquor license and posted "coming soon" on its website. The address is 616 Coleman Boulevard.
The operator. Nantucket's Meat and Fish Market is a family-owned business headquartered in Nantucket, Mass., with existing outposts in Hilton Head and Martha's Vineyard. Coleman Boulevard will be its third Southeast location and its first inside the Charleston market. It's a real specialty market — the kind New Englanders move down here and miss — built around line-caught fish, dry-aged beef, and curated grocery items you don't easily get from a Whole Foods run.
Why the wait was worth it. The space was previously occupied by Village Emporium, which relocated across the plaza in February 2026 to make way for Nantucket's buildout. Village Emporium reopened at 612 Coleman Blvd., next door to the former Señor Tequila spot. That chain of moves — emporium out, market in — is the kind of plaza-level musical chairs that always tells you more about a neighborhood than any press release will.
The bigger picture. Coleman Boulevard's identity has been sharpening over the past several years. It's no longer just the strip between Shem Creek and downtown Mount Pleasant. It's becoming the de facto food corridor of the East Cooper market — Lewis Barbecue's eventual location, Page's Okra Grill, and now a serious specialty grocer right in the middle of it. Nantucket's makes the case that Moultrie Plaza is ready to be more than a strip mall.
What we still don't know. An exact opening date hasn't been announced. The liquor license filing is the clearest signal yet that opening is months — not seasons — away. As always, we'll be tracking it here first.
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