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.
