Byline: Matthew Mogul
Dec. 23--For the past half-century, the Belk department store has been doing business at South Windermere Center.
This year will be its last.
Belk has seen many stores come and go since the West Ashley shopping center opened in 1954, making the location, some say, the oldest retail spot in the state, a place where once a Woolworths also stood.
Today, the 12-acre site offers an eclectic mix of stores, from an old-style barbershop, seamstress and ladies' shoe store to a sushi restaurant, yoga center and upscale health food shop.
Belk has been a witness to them all.
But sometime in early 2005, the department store will pack up and leave. At about the same time, construction is expected to begin on the expansion of the Belk store in Mount Pleasant.
The news in West Ashley has customers and neighboring retailers wondering what's next.
That's especially the case for 74-year-old Ann Moore,…
