Myrtle Beach Downtown Alliance seeks help from businesses to revitalize arts district

MYRTLE Seaside, S.C. (WMBF) – Bringing new lifestyle and protection to downtown Myrtle Beach front is a central emphasis of a new non-gain.

The Myrtle Beach front Downtown Alliance, a new nonprofit manufactured up of business owners and elected officers, is studying approaches of bringing new lifestyle to downtown Myrtle Seashore.

Improvements like more downtown housing, working with some of the empty tons we see and make downtown more walkable.

There are some locations the downtown alliance admits could use some operate, and they’ve signed up to do that work.

But initial, they are hoping downtown businesses will enable them get started out.

The very first move in undertaking that is taking a seem at comparable places, like Park Circle in North Charleston.

“Very similar to Broadway Road right in this article,” reported Amy Barrett, the CEO of Myrtle Seashore Downtown Alliance. “When we turned the corner, every person was like, ‘Oh, okay, I see.’”

North Charleston begun intensely performing to increase the Park Circle area about 20 many years back, some thing the alliance is wanting to do for Broadway Road downtown.

“The form of the structures, the way the structures fulfill the road, the way the autos function is very very similar to Broadway,” Barrett explained.

The alliance is hoping downtown businesses will get involved in that vision, not just for Broadway Road, but for the entire downtown spot.

“Those on council who had been there that day walked absent with a quite superior impression, explained Brenda Bethune, mayor of Myrtle Seaside. “Excited about what we’re executing.”

In order to spend for some of individuals enhancements, the alliance is hoping to type a Municipal Advancement District from 21st Avenue North to 12th Avenue South.

Companies in that district would see their property tax costs go up 1 per cent on what they are presently paying out each individual yr.

“Myrtle Beach justifies some like, care and extra notice,” Bethune claimed. “That’s likely to get a tiny little bit of an investment.”

The downtown alliance estimates that a fraction of a percent from just about every business enterprise would insert up to about $600,000.

The alliance would be tasked with generating confident that money goes proper back into improving upon the district on points like a new Greenway into the arts and innovation district, improved walkability all over the Highway 501 realignment and attracting more downtown housing.

“I imagine it is a no-brainer that it is heading to pay back off,” reported Bethune.

The enhancement district would last for 10 yrs, then the metropolis would be in a position to glimpse at ending it, extending it, or even introducing a lot more home to it.

The town council will get a deep dive into this topic at a workshop subsequent week right before voting on it the 7 days immediately after.

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