CAYCE -- Cayce’s leaders sense they have snared the goose that laid the golden egg. Mayor Avery Wilkerson gushed over SCANA Corp.’s departure from Columbia to Cayce. The giant utility said it plans to invest about $235 million to construct at least 10 buildings along Cayce’s new commercial corridor, the 12th Street extension. “It may be the biggest thing that’s happened here the last 50 years,” Wilkerson said. The county will get 22.5 percent of the $48.3 million fees over two decades and Cayce 12.6 percent.

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