SUN NEWS ----- North Myrtle Beach, SC — Publix
likes to make itself known when it opens its first store in a new
market, so Tuesday at Coastal North Town Center on U.S. 17, the
company’s divisional officials, local political, business and
educational dignitaries gathered for a sneak preview of the store that’s
to open to the public at 7 a.m. Wednesday. The nearly
50,0000-square-foot store includes enough items to keep shoppers busy
for hours, and officials took the dignitaries on a tour of the store’s
highlights. The Publix will be the latest in a line of new
groceries to open along the Grand Strand, including a new Lowe’s Foods
in Carolina Forest, a Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market and a Fresh Market.
Two more new groceries are in the works, one at Farrow Parkway and Fred
Nash Boulevard and another at 82nd Parkway and Kings Highway. Publix
plans to open its second area store in Pawleys Island during the first
quarter of next year. “Competition is always good,” Chuck Roskovich, Charlotte division vice president for Publix, said at Tuesday’s festivities. The
store will have 150 employees, and Roskovich said that the Publix chain
has never laid off an employee in its 84-year history. Store hours are 7 a.m. to 10 p..m., seven days a week. During
the preview ceremony, the store presented $500 checks to each of six
North Myrtle Beach area schools: North Myrtle Beach middle and high
schools, Ocean Drive Elementary, Riverside Elementary, Waterway
Elementary and The Lord’s Children, a private elementary school.
Wednesday
Timeshare tower under construction along the Myrtle Beach oceanfront moving toward summer debut
Sun News -- A timeshare tower that will be among the tallest along Ocean
Boulevard in Myrtle Beach has been topped off and plans to have the
first guests check in during early July. The 24-story Ocean 22
Hilton Grand Vacations Club, being built on the oceanfront near 22nd
Avenue North, aims to get its certificate of occupancy in May, then open
to the first guests in early July, said Patrick Lowe, partner in Strand
Capital Group, the Myrtle Beach developer that partnered with Hilton
Grand Vacations on the project. Crews will spend June moving in
furniture, training staff and putting the finishing touches on the
timeshare units readying for the opening. A 10,400-square-foot
preview center, where potential buyers can get more details, is set to
open in February across Ocean Boulevard from the tower, Lowe said. Ocean
22 will be the first lodging tower to open along Ocean Boulevard since
2009, when the second tower at the Hampton Inn & Suites Oceanfront
opened. Construction of new hotels stopped during the recession, and the
market has tried to correct itself from the overbuilding. The new 220-unit timeshare tower will have a fitness center, indoor and outdoor pools and a kids play area. Ocean
22 is one of three new lodging towers in the works for the oceanfront
in Myrtle Beach. Work is getting ready to start on a 14-story Homewood
Suites Oceanfront Resort & Conference Center at 1805 S. Ocean Blvd.,
which plans to open in spring 2016. And another tower that plans
to have an elevated pedestrian walkway over Ocean Boulevard at 17th
Avenue North is working its way through the city's approval process.
Virginia-based Buchanan Motels LLC has proposed the 23-floor, 252-unit
oceanfront hotel, with an indoor water park and parking garage across
the street.
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