The average asking rental rate per sq ft/year for Retail Commercial properties in Columbia, SC as of Aug 15 was $13.38. This represents an increase of 1.2% compared to the prior 3 months, with a decrease of -10.0% year-over-year.his represents an increase of 3.3% compared to the prior 3 months, with an increase of +0.0% year-over-year. County-wide, average rental rates in Columbia are +3.3% higher at $5.74 per sq ft/year for Industrial properties currently for lease.
Charles Henry Chuck Cooper (September 29, 1926 â February 5, 1984) was an American professional basketball player. He and two others, Nat Sweetwater Clifton and Earl Lloyd, became the first African American player in the NBA in 1950. Cooper was also the first African-American to be drafted by an NBA team, as the second pick of the second round by the Boston Celtics.
Dr. James Naismith is known world-wide as the inventor of basketball. He was born in 1861 in Ramsay township, near Almonte, Ontario, Canada. The concept of basketball was born from Naismith's school days in the area where he played a simple child's game known as duck-on-a-rock outside his one-room schoolhouse.e needed a game that could be played indoors in a relatively small space. The first game was played with a soccer ball and two peach baskets used as goals. James Naismith devised a set of thirteen rules of basketball: 1  The ball may be thrown in any direction with one or both hands.