Camp Hall Commerce Park has almost run out of industrial land to sell. Filling the buildings already standing there is another matter.

The Berkeley County park, developed by state-owned utility Santee Cooper, lists about 1.4 million square feet of finished space for lease in three buildings on Campus 8, according to its website, updated in late September. Another 60,000 square feet of spec space is available on Campus 4. In all, the park says it has more than 2 million square feet of industrial space for lease.

The only land it advertises for sale is two lots totaling 11.56 acres on Campus 1.

That mix, little land and a lot of empty floor space, comes as the park collects national praise. In July, Business Facilities magazine named Camp Hall the No. 1 industrial park in the country for the second year in a row, Santee Cooper said. The park has been in the magazine’s top 10 for seven straight years.

“Being recognized as the nation’s top industrial park for the second year in a row is an extraordinary honor,” Santee Cooper President and CEO Jimmy Staton said in the announcement.

Who is there

Volvo Cars anchors the park. It chose Camp Hall in 2015 for its first U.S. manufacturing plant and opened it in 2018, according to Camp Hall and Santee Cooper.

Redwood Materials, the battery recycler founded by former Tesla executive JB Straubel, announced a $3.5 billion campus on more than 600 acres in 2022. It began recovering critical minerals there in November 2025, the company said.

In 2024, Santee Cooper also named DC BLOX among the major companies operating or building facilities in the park. The park’s website now lists a roughly 500,000-square-foot cross-dock building on Campus 5 as fully leased, without naming the tenant.

Workers have a few amenities. A Refuel convenience store and gas station opened at Avian Commons, the park’s amenity hub, in March 2025, its first business. In February, Camp Hall said Prodigy Early Learning Centers was under contract to buy a site at Avian Commons for a child care center.

The empty space

The biggest vacancy is on Campus 8, at 1125 and 1129 Redwood Materials Drive and 912 Autonomous Drive. A leasing brochure from Bridge Commercial describes three Class A buildings “built & ready” for immediate occupancy: Building A at 971,302 square feet, Building B at 275,271 and Building C at 183,757.

The brochure calls Building A one of the few industrial buildings of that size available in the Charleston region. It markets the buildings to manufacturers and distributors and notes heavy electrical infrastructure at the site.

Berkeley County property records list Camp Hall Industrial Owner LLC as the owner of those parcels, bought in 2022. In May 2023, federal aerial imagery showed the largest building partly roofed and the other two at earlier stages of construction.

The land picture is different. In April 2024, Santee Cooper said the park’s industrial tracts were nearly sold out, with more than 1,000 acres developed and about 100 acres left for industrial use. Another 140 acres was set aside for offices and other commercial uses at Avian Commons.

Rail and numbers

Palmetto Railways, the state-owned short line, has been building a 25-mile, $190 million rail line from Camp Hall to a CSX connection near Cross. In April, the railroad said the line was 75% finished, The Berkeley Independent reported.

“We are anticipating being completed by the end of summer. I can go ahead and say August of this year,” Patrick McCrory, then the railroad’s president and CEO, told the newspaper in an article that Palmetto Railways reposted on its website. He said the line would first serve the Volvo plant.

As of late September, Camp Hall’s website described the line as “nearing completion.” Neither the park’s nor the railroad’s news pages had announced that it was finished as of Oct. 18.

Santee Cooper points to a study by University of South Carolina research economist Joseph Von Nessen, released in April 2024. It put Camp Hall’s annual economic impact at $3.8 billion statewide, supporting 6,364 jobs. At full development, after 2035, the study projected $7.9 billion a year.

What to watch

Santee Cooper markets the park on more than industrial pads. Camp Hall says it has more than 2,600 acres of preserved open space, trails and recreation, along with fiber and power infrastructure in place.

The question for the next year is whether those selling points, and the rail line, fill buildings that are already up. The brochure for Campus 8 offers space from 40,000 square feet up to the full 971,302-square-foot building. Bridge Commercial’s Peter Fennelly is the listing broker.