When Dean Sherrill first moved Midwest Rare Coins into the Parkade Center 13 years ago, the complex had long ceased to be the hotspot it once was as Columbia’s first shopping mall.
“There was a time when I first moved here when it was like a ghost mall,” Sherrill said.
His store is one of the longest-serving tenants at Parkade, which has changed hands twice since Sherrill arrived. After the Burnam family, owners of Storage Mart, bought the property in 2004, the historic shopping center’s revival began. “They’ve made a big difference,” Sherrill said.
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Bill Coats grew up in west central Columbia and remembers, in the early 1960s, an old corner store at the junction of Sexton Road and McBaine Avenue. He didn’t shop there often because his parents thought it was safer for the kids to walk from their home on the south side of Worley Street to another market a few blocks south to avoid crossing the busy street.
Although those stores are long gone, Coats, now 58, has his own community market at McBaine and Sexton. Unitee Market was his chance to run his first business and fill the neighborhood’s need for a store within reasonable walking distance.
