The Blackwell Hardware sign came down in 2025 after more than 75 years on the corner of Yeamans Hall and Remount. For a while the lot sat the way empty corners do, waiting for someone with money and a plan. What showed up instead was mostly people who grew up a few blocks away.
That distinction matters more than it sounds like it should. Most Charleston-area town centers get built by developers who fly in from somewhere else and fill the storefronts with the same chains you'd find in any suburban outparcel from here to Ohio. Hanahan's version is shaping up differently, and the clearest proof is that one local chef's name is now attached to three separate addresses within a mile of each other, all opening within about a year of one another.
The corner gets its name back
The project replacing Blackwell Hardware is called Blackwells Corner, a nod to the store that occupied the site for three quarters of a century before closing. It's a roughly 40,000-square-foot mixed-use development blending dining, retail, fitness studios, salons and office space, and Mayor Christie Rainwater has called it transformational for a corner of the city that's been waiting on a real downtown for a long time.
Construction is expected to begin in September 2026, but residents won't have to wait for the full build-out to get a preview. A temporary space called Blackwells Outpost opens along Yeamans Hall Road this September, with Untitled Pizza Co. serving as its permanent food concept while rotating pop-ups and community events fill in the rest.
The developers were explicit about who they wanted in the building and who they didn't.
"We weren't looking to simply fill space. We wanted operators who will give Hanahan the kind of local options residents have told us they want."
That's Blackwells Corner partner Michael Sivel, and the tenant list backs up the sentiment. The first four names announced were Untitled Pizza Co., a wood-fired pizzeria from chef Jalen Reeves who spent time cooking at The Kingstide before launching his own JMB Provisions pop-up, a second location of downtown's Kudu Coffee & Wine, an expanding Pineapple House Boutique, and an Italian mercato and wine bar from Cane Pazzo owner Mark Bolchoz.
One name, three addresses
Bolchoz is where this story stops being a normal tenant announcement and starts being something more specific to Hanahan. He opened Cane Pazzo at 1276 Yeamans Hall Road in June 2025, and it went on to win best new restaurant in Charleston City Paper's 2026 Best of Charleston awards. Rather than stop there, he's now building outward from that single address in two directions at once.
| Concept | Location | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Cane Pazzo | 1276 Yeamans Hall Road | Open since June 2025 |
| Italian mercato and wine bar | Blackwells Corner | Opening as the town center develops |
| Untitled Irish-coastal restaurant | 1262 Remount Road (former Dashi) | Targeting fall 2026 |
The Blackwells Corner mercato will include a working pastificio behind a street-facing window, with fresh pasta supplying both the new spot and Cane Pazzo across the street. The Remount Road project, about a mile away in the former Dashi space, is a different kind of personal. Bolchoz has described it as a bridge between coastal Lowcountry traditions and the pubs of western Ireland, and the name is expected to honor his grandmother Maureen, who opened Calders' restaurant in 1987 and later worked at Mike Calder's Irish pub downtown. Fish and chips, local sourcing, and Guinness poured in a proper pint glass are the pieces he's mentioned publicly so far, with a fall 2026 target.
"I'm an eighth-generation Charlestonian, and my wife, Ariana, and I are raising our kids right here in Hanahan," Bolchoz said when the Blackwells Corner news broke. It reads like a line from a press release until you notice it's backed up by three separate leases.
What that math actually means
Here's the number that gives all of this its scale. As of Cane Pazzo's 2025 opening, Hanahan, a city of just over 20,000 people, counted fewer than a dozen locally owned restaurants. That's the baseline against which one chef adding three concepts should be read. Bolchoz alone is on track to represent something close to a quarter of the city's independent dining scene by the time the Remount Road project opens this fall. That's not incremental growth. That's one person's expansion accounting for a meaningful share of what "local restaurant options" means in Hanahan.
The rest of the roster
The other tenants filling in around Bolchoz's footprint round out a lineup that skews toward businesses with existing Charleston-area reputations rather than untested newcomers. Kudu Coffee & Wine has built a following at its downtown location on Vanderhorst Street with house-made syrups and a curated wine and craft beer program, and its Blackwells Corner spot will be its first expansion. Pineapple House Boutique, run by two women who grew up in Hanahan and are now raising their own families there, is nearly doubling its footprint with a second location for clothing, jewelry and home décor, with an anticipated debut in fall 2027. Untitled Pizza Co.'s Jalen Reeves has described his approach as Neapolitan dough technique finished New York style, with toppings built seasonally rather than pulled from a standard menu.
None of these are chains testing a market. They're operators who've already proven themselves somewhere else in Charleston and are choosing to put a second location specifically in Hanahan.
What to put on the calendar
Two events give a sense of the rhythm of a Hanahan year, and one of them is coming up fast. The city's Red, White & Blue Festival returns to the Hanahan Amphitheater on Saturday, November 14, 2026, with a rain date of November 21. Expect free carnival rides, jump castles, pony rides, face painting, live music, military demonstrations, and the usual run of craft vendors and food trucks that make it a full day out rather than an afternoon stop.
The other fixture is Woofstock, the Lowcountry dog music festival that's held every April at the same amphitheater, drawing bands, food trucks, and adoption groups for a day built around dogs and live music. It's not on the calendar again for months, but it's worth knowing it's part of the annual pattern if you're new to paying attention to what happens at that amphitheater beyond city council meetings.
What it adds up to
The easy version of this story is "Hanahan is getting new restaurants," which is true but tells you nothing you couldn't get from a scroll through a delivery app. The real shift is that the town center this city has wanted for years is arriving through the expansion of people who already had a stake here, not through a developer importing brand names from somewhere else. When Sivel says the goal was operators who'd give residents the kind of local options they'd asked for, the tenant list is the receipt. When Bolchoz says he's raising his kids in Hanahan while opening his third restaurant here, the three addresses on that table are the receipt for that too.
If you're watching this corridor because you're weighing what a home in this part of the tri-county area might be worth as it fills in, or you're curious what a project like Blackwells Corner tends to do to nearby property values once it's finished, that's a conversation worth having with people who track this market closely. Synergy Group Properties works Hanahan and the surrounding Charleston tri-county area every day, and we're glad to talk through what we're seeing on the ground whenever you're ready.
