COLUMBUS — Jim Morpeth smelled more than potential when looking at an abandoned Greyhound bus station in the heart of his hometown.
The restaurateur in 1988 transformed the shuttered structure in downtown Columbus into a quirky barbecue restaurant called Country’s On Broad, even incorporating a bus for additional seating. Morpeth said success wasn’t ensured, given his neighbors.
“When we started business down there, it was all cotton mills,” he said, noting that an adult bookstore was his restaurant’s other prominent neighbor. “And we watched the cotton mills go away.”…