MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WBTW) – Myrtle Beach city leaders want to use $1.5 million to connect Broadway at the Beach to some of the city’s newest additions.
This week, city council approved a motion that would build a connector known as Burroughs and Chapin Boulevard.
Right now, if you’re looking to get to Broadway from Oak Street, you’d likely get in your car, but city leaders want to change that.
The boulevard starts right off of Oak Street, near the convention center, the new sports complex, and the proposed home of the performing arts center and amphitheater.
“What happens now is that a lot of people who stay at the convention center or are at the sports center don’t really realize how close they are to Broadway and some of the entertainments there because they have to go out and about in order to get there. This will give them a straight shot and will allow people to come in off of Grissom as well,” said Myrtle Beach City Manager John Pederson.
Myrtle Beach Planning Director Carol Coleman says the extension would also tie in with the city’s efforts to make Myrtle Beach more pedestrian friendly.
“Anywhere we can create better corridors for people to be able to walk, bike and drive you know to have the options to do any of those, it’s got to be a benefit.,” said Coleman.
Money to pay for the new corridor would come from the admission tax district fund. That’s a tax the city gets anytime you pay for a ticketed event, like a movie or festival.
It’s a project Pederson says will tie many of the city’s new projects together and get people to spend money.
“Basically, this will be a whole new way to come into the area where the sports center is now and where the performing arts center and the amphitheater are proposed to go to kind of help stimulate that whole area and to tie that project in better to Broadway at the Beach,” saiid Pederson.
