SC Department of Natural Resources to hold ribbon cutting and flag raising ceremony at their new state headquarters in Lexington County

Dixiana, SC 08/19/2025 (Paul Kirby) - The South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) will be celebrating a historic milestone on Thursday, August 21, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. On that morning, they will formally open their new agency headquarters near the SC Farmers’ Market. There will be a ribbon cutting and flag raising ceremony to mark the occasion. SCDNR’s Director Dr. Tom Mullikin and other distinguished guests will be in attendance.

The official street and mailing address will be the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources 260 D Epting Lane, West Columbia, SC 29172.

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This is yet another move by a federal or state agency to leave downtown Columbia. Last year, the FBI relocated their area headquarters to Lexington. The SC Department of Revenue has moved its headquarters to 300 A Outlet Pointe Blvd, Columbia (Saint Andrews), SC 29210 near the intersection of I-20 and Bush River Road. Large companies like Dominion Energy have led the same trend with businesses when they moved their headquarters from downtown to Cayce and number of years ago.

All of these moves have decentralized traffic away from Columbia’s downtown to less busy areas of both Lexington and Richland Counties.