At 6 a.m., two sets of doors open at 10508 Two Notch Road. Food Lion opens for groceries, and a few storefronts down, Eggs Up Grill starts serving breakfast. Seventeen hours later the last register at that address closes, at a corner that had no Pontiac Towne Center tenants open at all when this year started.
Elgin's newest shopping center is easy to think of as a grocery store with some extras. The posted hours show something more than that. Each business that opened here in 2026 owns its own part of the day, with breakfast in the morning, hibachi at night and the grocery store and sandwich shop running long at either end. Together they cover every hour from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Eight months, five openings
Food Lion went first. The State reported the store would open on Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2026, at Pontiac Towne Center. Everything else followed from spring into late summer.
| Business | Where | When it opened | Posted hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Food Lion | 10508 Two Notch Road | Jan. 21, 2026 | 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily |
| Bowers Ace Hardware | 118 Spears Creek Church Road | Grand opening June 13, 2026 | Not confirmed |
| Tokyo Grill | 10508 Two Notch Road, Unit 4D | Open by mid-July 2026 | 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Mon.–Thu., 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Fri.–Sat., 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sun. |
| Eggs Up Grill Spears Creek | 10508 Two Notch Road | Announced for Aug. 10, 2026 | 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. daily |
| Subway | 10508 Two Notch Road | Reported as planned in June 2026, now listed open | 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily |
Bowers Ace Hardware held its grand opening from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on June 13, and The State noted that soft-opening days were expected in early June. Tokyo Grill came next. The State reported in July that a "now open" banner was hanging on its storefront. Eggs Up Grill set its date on Facebook, calling the Spears Creek store "Elgin's newest breakfast, brunch, and lunch destination," as The State reported in August. In mid-October, the chain's official location page shows the store as open and taking orders.
None of these are local startups. Tokyo Grill has more than a dozen Midlands locations, and Eggs Up Grill already ran several stores around Columbia and Lexington before this one. What's new for Elgin is having those familiar menus at its own intersection.
How the hours hand off
Put the posted hours on one clock and the corner runs on shifts. On a weekday, using each business's current listing, the day goes like this:
- 6 a.m. Food Lion and Eggs Up Grill open together. Eggs Up's menu leans on omelets, pancakes, waffles and breakfast sandwiches.
- 9 a.m. Subway opens.
- 11 a.m. Tokyo Grill opens Monday through Saturday. On Sunday it opens at 11:30.
- 2 p.m. Eggs Up Grill closes for the day. The lunch side of its menu covers burgers, club sandwiches and BLTs before the doors lock.
- 9:30 p.m. Tokyo Grill closes Monday through Thursday, with hibachi chicken, teriyaki, jumbo shrimp, fried rice, sushi rolls and gyoza on the menu until then. On Friday and Saturday it stays open until 10.
- 11 p.m. Subway and Food Lion close last.
From 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., something is open somewhere in the center. Eggs Up and Tokyo Grill share only the three lunch hours from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Mornings belong to Eggs Up and evenings to Tokyo Grill. The two businesses with the longest days, Food Lion and Subway, bookend everything else.
That makes a full Saturday of errands possible without leaving one parking lot. Start with pancakes at Eggs Up, then walk over to Bowers Ace for whatever the weekend project needs. Pick up a hibachi order at Tokyo Grill on the way home, and stop at Food Lion on a second trip if the night needs a grocery run. Ace's regular hours aren't confirmed yet, so check the store directly before planning around a late hardware stop.
The road that grew faster than the shopping center
Spears Creek Church Road is the side of the corner that changed most, at least by the numbers. In its July 2026 coverage, The State cited state Department of Transportation counts of more than 24,000 cars a day on this stretch of Two Notch Road, up from 22,000 in 2024. Spears Creek Church Road nearby topped 15,800 cars a day, up from 10,000 in 2024.
Two Notch grew by roughly a tenth over that period. Spears Creek Church grew by more than half. The busier road is still Two Notch, but the side street is catching up fast, and it's the street where Bowers Ace chose its address. Eggs Up Grill even named its store "Spears Creek" instead of using the Two Notch address it actually sits on.
For anyone who drives through this intersection every day, those counts explain why the left turns take longer than they did two years ago. They also go a long way toward explaining why national chains came to this corner at all. A center at a crossroads where one of the roads gained nearly 6,000 cars a day in two years gives a breakfast chain and a hibachi chain each a reason to split the clock instead of fighting over the same hour.
Still behind the signs at Suite 5A
The day still has one gap, and you can see it on the clock above. After Eggs Up closes, nothing at the center sells dessert or a smoothie. That's the slot the next tenants are meant to fill.
The State reported in late July that Cold Stone Creamery and Planet Smoothie would share a storefront at the center, with signage already up but no opening date announced. As of Oct. 11, 2026, both brands' official store locators still say "Coming Soon." Cold Stone lists store #24449 at 10508 Two Notch Road, Suite 5A. Planet Smoothie lists store #19404 at the same address. Neither page posts hours yet.
Until those pages change from "Coming Soon" to posted hours, it's best to treat any opening date you hear secondhand as a rumor. The Eggs Up Grill opening is a good model for how these tend to go. It was planned in May, the chain posted a specific date on Facebook in early August, and the locator switched over after that.
Before December 5
The center sits out at Two Notch and Spears Creek Church, but Elgin's biggest day of the year still happens in town. The Kershaw County Chamber lists the Elgin Catfish Stomp Parade for Saturday, Dec. 5, 2026, with the parade at 10 a.m. and food, craft vendors and activities through the day. The Town of Elgin says the Stomp takes place at Potter Community Park and is sponsored by the Elgin Police Department Toys Roundup and the Caring Hands Foundation. The town also says its Christmas tree lighting is held the Thursday before the Stomp. The town hasn't posted a 2026 date, so watch its announcements to confirm.
That Saturday also shows what's changed at the new corner. Eggs Up Grill opens at 6 a.m., four hours before the parade starts. If Cold Stone and Planet Smoothie open by then, the center will have something for the afternoon too.
If the traffic on Spears Creek Church Road has you wondering how all this growth affects the homes nearby, our team at Half Moon Realty is based right here in Elgin and is glad to talk it through, with no pressure and no sales pitch. Contact Us anytime, even if all you want is an honest answer about what's being built down the road.
