MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WBTW) – After two decades on the Grand Strand, the Boys & Girls Club will break ground on a new building in Myrtle Beach Friday afternoon.
The new facility will be located at 900 Dunbar Street along Mr. Joe White Avenue, between Dunbar and Carver Streets. For the last 20 years, a blue house on Carver Street has been a second home to thousands of kids in the Boys & Girls Club of the Grand Strand.
The current building isn’t large enough to hold the 250 kids currently enrolled in the program, so younger members of the club meet at the Mt. Olive AME Church on Carver Street. The new building will have enough space for the program to nearly double in size and will offer a full gymnasium, computer lab, and art center.
The groundbreaking for the 20,000 square foot facility will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at the new building site.
NBA player and Myrtle Beach native Ramon Sessions donated $250,000 to the construction, when he announced he would partner with the Boys & Girls Club on the build. Burroughs and Chapin has donated the land for the building, and the City of Myrtle Beach has also pledged to give $250,000 to the project.
