Flyway Featured | Charleston Neighborhood
The Post and Courier:
A Charleston neighborhood changes, with newcomers preserving its past
There may be no Charleston neighborhood that has transformed with the speed and splash of Cannonborough-Elliottborough. Throughout the area, which is nestled on the West side just south of the Septima P. Clark Parkway, there seems to be an ever-evolving proliferation of fastidiously rehabbed homes, cheery local boutiques and inviting new boites. They are regularly the stu of prestigious awards, glossy lifestyle spreads and national television shows.
A recent mixed-used restoration can be spotted from the Septima P. Clark Parkway at Rutledge Ave. It was rescued from dereliction by owner Lindsay Nevin, president of Flyway, a company involved in numerous aspects of the construction and real estate industry, and represents a collaboration with designer Andrew Gould of New World Byzantine. Originally built in as John Meyer & Co. Grocery, the ½-story wood-frame building was distinguished by an ornate bracketed cornice and tripartite gable window.
The vestiges of that history moved Flyway to take on the much altered, rot-ravaged property with the vast majority of its historic character gone or covered up and its original storefront lost. However, when they pulled a couple of the panels back, they realized that the barrel vaulted ceiling was still in place.
“No one had probably seen it for decades. And that was really the inspiration that pushed us over the edge to move on the structure,” Nevin said.