What Should Go Here: Food Lion

Large retail spaces are some of the hardest to fill when a tenant closes up shop, so this former Food Lion off St. Andrews Boulevard might stay on the market for a while.

But the longer it stays vacant the tougher it will be on the other businesses in the shopping center. Patch detailed many of the challenges property owners face in refilling gorcery storefronts a year ago, and it can be daunting, just look at Church Creek Plaza. The spaces are too big for most other retail operations, but too small for something like Walmart or Target, once one grocery store fails at a particular location others are reluctant to give it a second chance, and that's usually because traffic patterns around the shopping centers have changed and fewer people drive past it now.

That's not exactly the case with this spot though, so there may be hope for a quick turn-around. That stretch of St. Andrews Boulevard is still heavily traveled and the shopping center is surrounded by hundreds of homes.

Or maybe a more unconventional tenant could move in. How many bowling lanes would fit in an old grocery store? Laser tag may not have come back into vogue again yet, but how about an indoor Nerf combat arena?

There are plenty of outside-the-box thinkers in the Charleston area, surely some of them can come up with a viable business plan that utilizes a 40,000 - 50,000-square-foot space with 20-foot ceilings.

So what do you think? What should go here?