US: Hospitality growth and administration firm Raines will open The Lantern Resort Columbia in autumn 2025, a 59-key boutique lodge situated in Columbia’s Vista neighbourhood.
The lodge can be constructed inside town’s historic firehouse and can kind a part of the corporate’s Woven life-style portfolio.
Anticipated to open in autumn 2025, The Lantern will provide coaching and employment alternatives for individuals with mental and developmental disabilities by way of a partnership with the College of South Carolina (USC) and its CarolinaLIFE programme.
College students from USC’s Faculty of Hospitality, Retail and Sport Administration may even be concerned in operations, with the lodge positioned as a purpose-led, inclusive hospitality vacation spot.
The undertaking consists of the launch of Ladder 13, a signature restaurant led by James Beard Basis Award nominee and USC alumnus Kevin Johnson.
Raines is main the event, with Garvin Design Group as architect and Mashburn Development as builder.
Managing companion Gray Raines stated: “Wanting again on our a long time of expertise in hospitality and the relationships we’ve constructed over time, this one feels completely different. The Lantern has the flexibility to impression lives.”
A second website, The Lantern Rock Hill, is about to open in autumn 2026.
Highlights:
• Raines will open the 59-key Lantern Resort Columbia in autumn 2025.
• The undertaking will reuse Columbia’s historic firehouse within the Vista neighbourhood.
• A restaurant by chef Kevin Johnson will open as Ladder 13.
• The lodge will present hospitality profession paths for USC college students within the CarolinaLIFE program.
• A second website in Rock Hill is deliberate for autumn 2026.
