North Beach Plantation - city council weighs public benefits

North Myrtle Beach City Council members want to make sure a proposed project – North Beach Plantation – provides public benefits, such as parking, to the community.

Earlier this month, the city’s Planning Commission voted in favor of the developers’ request to rezone the property from mobile home residential to planned-unit development.

Gary Loftus, director of the Coastal Federal Center for Economic and Community Development at Coastal Carolina University, reported that the project could add more than $1.5 million to the city’s annual budget.

Developers are looking to build up to 1,000 single-family and multifamily homes, a deli, coffee shop, upscale boutiques, office and retail space, and resort amenities, including 2.5 acres of swimming pools.

The oceanfront towers and homes will go on the 56.4-acre property on 48th Avenue South. Developers are proposing up to 425 units on the oceanfront, with a maximum height of 216 feet for the oceanfront towers. An additional 575 units would be on the inland portion, with a maximum height of 170 feet.

Source: Janelle Frost, The Sun News, Myrtle Beach, SC