If you feel like you’ve seen new businesses popping up everywhere, you’re not wrong.
COLUMBIA, S.C. — If you feel like you’ve seen new businesses popping up everywhere, you’re not wrong. The US Chamber of Commerce said Richland County is among the top 3 percent of counties in the country for starting a business.
Last year more than 1,500 businesses registered with the South Carolina Department of Revenue. According to the Secretary of State, that’s a fraction of the record-breaking numbers in South Carolina.
‘Throwback Outpost,’ a consignment shop in Forest Acres, is part of this boom. The shop opened on Beltline Boulevard in January.
“Opening your business should just be a matter of the anxiety of you personally opening a business,” owner Bryan Kerouac said.
Kerouac said in Richland County, the process to open his shop was painless.
“You went to the city, the City of Forest Acres, they said here’s what we …