Limehouse Produce

North Charleston,
SC
(2016)

Limehouse Produce

Business Development, Manufacturing, Restaurants and Catering, Retail and Commercial, Warehouse and Wholesale

Purchase of the former site of the Charleston Naval Exchange Building on Carner Avenue for the development of a multi-faceted agribusiness program.

Investment

NMTC Amount: $9,000,000
Total Project Cost: $10,161,839

IMPACT

67 FTE jobs
39 construction jobs
175,000 sq. ft. of real estate

CDEs

Innovate Fund

Investor

Capital One

Project Description

In 2015, Limehouse Produce purchased the former site of the Charleston Naval Exchange Building on Carner Avenue for the development of a multi-faceted agribusiness program. Limehouse Produce, which provides conventional row crops, local specialties, fresh herbs and dairy products to Charleston area restaurants, will rehabilitate the abandoned 127,156-sq.-ft. Exchange Building into a food hub with additional tenant space for locally owned businesses and nonprofits at reduced rental rates. It also build a new 49,556-sq.-ft. produce distribution and cold storage facility, with the total project encompassing over 175,000 sq. ft. on 14.6 acres. As a “first-mover” in this distressed neighborhood, the economic impact of this project is tremendous.

MAP

Address: 2650 Carner Avenue, North Charleston, SC 29405

Census Tract: 45019004300

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