On Monday outside Columbia, as dump trucks noisily prowled the old 23-acre State newspaper grounds amid piles of rubble, developers met there with officials from the University of South Carolina school of journalism.
With the remaining three-story skeletal ruins of The State’s once-venerable building as a backdrop — it looked like a war zone structure, innards laid bare — developers from Landmark Properties handed over a time capsule that for years stood at the front of The State newspaper building to the USC J-school, officials said.
The time capsule, sealed in 1991, is to be opened in 2041 — the 150th anniversary of The State’s founding. Along with a monument, the capsule had remained at The State building since 2020, when the building was abandoned and the remaining journalists moved to a downtown Columbia office building near the governor’s mansion. The old office building on Shop Road was subsequently sold.
Landmark Properties intends to build a 850-apartment, $120 million complex aimed at students on the site. It will be called “The Walk” and is expected to open in 2027. Groundbreaking took place Monday…