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Happy Thursday, Charleston. On this date in 1918, Charleston's city health officer sent notice asking every physician in town to start reporting flu cases and deaths, the first real sign of what was about to become the Spanish flu epidemic here. The state health officer tried to keep everyone calm that same day, dismissing it as just "the grippe." By that evening there were roughly 350 cases and one death, yet schools stayed open. Five days later the city shut everything down. Source: Charleston County Public Library, Charleston Time Machine
New section alert: Development Watch, the deep dive on Charleston's stalled projects and quiet zoning fights. Keeping this one or cutting it loose?
Congrats to Kristy B. of West Ashley who guessed correctly in last week's Where Are We? It was the Bridge To Nowhere.
Thursday 87° / 68° ⛅ 💧9%
Friday 86° / 72° ⛈️ 💧55%
Saturday 84° / 73° ⛈️ 💧55%
Sunday 82° / 70° ⛈️ 💧88%
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The Ben Sawyer swing bridge glitched shut four separate times this July. Sullivan's Island still doesn't love talking about the last time this kind of bridge failed for real. The engineer who keeps it running shared what's actually breaking down there, and whether it could survive the next big storm. It isn't what most people assume.
Just reply to this email, or if you're reading on our website, email me here. The first person to guess correctly will get a shout-out at the top of our issue next week!
TOGETHER WITH ISMASH CHARLESTON
🔨 It's tonight. Charleston's only rage room turns one, and you're invited.
Doors open at 5:30 on Folly Road for a full-on birthday party. Meet local business owners and vendors, snag giveaways (annual membership, gift cards and more), and watch Amanda Edwards cut the ribbon at 1291 Folly Road. Bring business cards. Leave your stress at the door, because there's a room full of sledgehammers for that.
Can't make tonight? Anniversary weekend is 50% off, so grab a friend and go break something.
Thursday, October 1
Dock Discovery | 9:30 AM | James Island County Park | Whatever's living under that dock, these kids are about to find out.
Concert in the Park - The Novatones | 6 PM | City of Folly Beach | Free tunes on Folly Beach's lawn, bring a chair, skip the ticket.
Southern Screams presents Macabre | 7 - 10:30 PM | Holy City Brewing | Charleston's creepiest haunted museum dares you to walk through its dark corners.
Friday, October 2
Horse Care Demonstration | 2 - 2:30 PM | Middleton Place | Get up close with Middleton Place's draft horses at the stableyards.
First Friday BBQ & Bluegrass Celebration | 6 - 9 PM | Commonhouse Aleworks | Commonhouse's ninth season of BBQ and bluegrass, first Friday, finger-lickin' good.
The College Bull Bash: Mechanical Bull Riding, Food & Drinks | 6 - 10 PM | Patriots Point Soccer Stadium | Mechanical bull riding, a DJ, and free-flowing Red Bull at Patriots Point.
Saturday, October 3
Charleston Farmers Market | 8 AM - 2 PM | Marion Square | Marion Square fills with produce, prepared food, and local makers again.
Mermaids & Mateys Festival | 10 AM - 4 PM | Center Street, Folly Beach | Three stages, 80-plus vendors, and a costume contest for the mermaid-inclined.
Munich Days, Berlin Nights | 2 PM - 2:59 AM | The Refinery | Three DJs, beer, and bratwurst, free Oktoberfest chaos at The Refinery.
Sunday, October 4
Belay Basics | 10 - 11:30 AM | Palmetto Peaks Climbing | No experience required. Learn the skill that keeps climbers alive.
Latin American Festival | 12 - 5 PM | Charleston County Parks | Salsa, merengue, and 15 food vendors take over the county park.
Flavor Fest | 2 - 6 PM | Bowens Island Sunset View Dock | All-you-can-eat oysters and BBQ, live music, right on the water.
FEATURED EVENT: JANE DO
Saturday, Oct 3 · 9 AM–12 PM · The Refinery
A morning built around feeling good. Live DJ, three 35-minute workout classes, recovery, wellness demos, freebies and shopping with local vendors. Come for one class, two, or all three. General admission starts at $31.
| Broker’s Take | October 1, 2026 |
The Fall Reprice Window
Every fall, the same seller shows up in my inbox. Listed in May at a price that felt safe, sat all summer with a few showings and no offers, now staring down the holidays wondering if they blew it. They didn’t. The price did, at that number. Buyers still shopping in October already know which listings have been sitting. A fresh price isn’t a discount to them, it’s proof you’re finally seeing what they’ve seen for months. Reprice now, before Thanksgiving turns buyers toward turkey instead of floor plans, and you close before the new year. Wait for spring, and you’re just relisting the same disappointment with better photos.
Jimmy Farrell
Broker, The Farrell Group
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| Development Watch | October 1, 2026 |
The Silence at 510 King Street
Two blocks up King Street from Charleston’s newest boutique hotel sits a 47,000-square-foot building that’s sold for $22.5 million and hasn’t been touched in years. The city approved a 200-room hotel here. The Preservation Society signed off. A city councilman, whose own great-grandfather’s name is on the building, publicly backed it. Then: nothing.
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A Charleston restaurant just made the New York Times' list of America's 50 best, and it's not the restaurant you'd have guessed.
The building that used to be Stars Rooftop just sold for $6.95 million, and the whole roof is about to change.
A veteran coach needed SPF 70 to coach his first outdoor college basketball game ever, and Daniel Island just proved the format works.
Charleston's $2 billion upper peninsula mega-development just cleared a big milestone, and its two new parks could not be more different.
Two guys who used to chase bookings all over Charleston just found a permanent home at a Mount Pleasant brewery.
FRI — Sugarland at North Charleston Coliseum — the Ride or Die Tour rolls through arena-sized. Or Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Tribute at Forte Jazz Lounge — a night of pure big-band swing.
SAT — Lalah Hathaway at Charleston Music Hall — a Grammy voice that doesn't need an introduction. Or PoHo Family Cluster Pluck at The Charleston Pour House — bluegrass all afternoon, straight from the porch.
SUN — Fred Armisen at Charleston Music Hall — SNL's strangest genius, live and unscripted. Or The Expendables at The Windjammer — reggae-rock on the sand, beers in hand.
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