Posted on 02/20/2014 2:30:18 PM PST by Biggirl
Where bouts is the market commons?
It’s out near the old air force base it has some cool places to eat and stuff.
“... the old air force base ...”
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What? Is that closed, now?
Shows how long since I have been to MB!
Yeah it’s closed some of the streets of Market commons is named after Air Force officers.
I can remember when the jets would buzz the beach on occasion.
I figure this thread would have been over 100 tonight.
There might be something because the the jets will fly over my house and I’ve seen them at the beach a few times.
Just damn.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrtle_Beach_Air_Force_Base
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With the closure of the facility by the Air Force in 1993, the City of Myrtle Beach and Horry County spent the better part of a decade at loggerheads over what to do with the former Myrtle Beach Air Force Base.
The Air Force divided the land among the Air Force Base Redevelopment Authority, Santee Cooper, Myrtle Beach, the Myrtle Beach International Airport, the Horry County Red Cross, the Cathedral Bible College and Horry-Georgetown Technical College. Some of these transfers were through sales, some through land swaps and some through a program called public-benefit conveyance.
In November 1993, the State of South Carolina received 1,545 acres (6.25 km2) of the former air base in a land swap with the federal government. Timberland Properties Inc. obtained the option to develop a theme park on most of that land. The state in return gave land in Sumter next to Shaw Air Force Base. During the summer of 1994 the Myrtle Beach Air Base Redevelopment Authority was formed.
In 1995 Timberland Properties Inc., exercised its option to buy the more than 900 acres (3.6 km2) from Santee Cooper to build a theme park called Isle of America. However in 1997 TPI defaulted on its contract by not starting construction of its theme park and subsequently declared bankruptcy.
During 1998 the Myrtle Beach Air Base Redevelopment Authority unveiled plans for an urban village. In 1999 Santee Cooper named a developer for the land. WBLC paid $20.1 million and had four months to complete the deal. In 2000 Coastal Arena LLC announced plans to build an arena. Later, the city balked at a request for tax rebates, and the plan fell apart.
In 2001, the Air Force Base Housing was made available to the public, units being sold through Coldwell Banker, or rented through beach property management, both of which have offices on-site. This new subdivision was officially named Seagate.
Finally, in 2004 an agreement was reached that would allow Myrtle Beach International Airport, which assumed control over the runway of the former AFB, to expand and build a second runway and supporting facilities. Besides the main runway, old taxiways and hardstands from the 1940s World War II Army Airfield survive unused. The USAF flightline ramp, hangars, control tower, maintenance shops and other operational assets are used for various civil aircraft purposes.
Have you ever been to Broadway at the Beach?
Wow thanks for posting that lots of stuff there.
” ... Broadway at the Beach ... “
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I’m drawing a blank on that one, too.
It’s huge place lots of stores you’ll walk your feet off. LOL
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