NEW ATTRACTIONS for the summer of 2009 at the Market Common in Myrtle Beach are the fourth location of King Street Grille, a sports Pub serving salads, sandwiches, burgers, Pasta, and Seafood Entrees, and the third location of Bobby Chan Men's Clothing on Howard Street.

Market Common stores and restaurants played a large part in making Myrtle Beach a shopping destination for the 2008 season.

Workmen are also preparing some of the many parking lots in preperation for paving, with curb work being installed. The Commercial stores and restaurants will be the heart of the new urban village that will be the driving engine of the overall residential and commercial development underway on the former Myrtle Beach Air Force Base. RWO Acquisitions is preparing their first residentialcommunity named Balmoral. The main feeder street, Coventry Avenue has been paved and will lead to the communities of Withers Preserve. Model homes will soon be started in the Balmoral community and the sales center for Balmoral should be opening next month offering prospective buyers of Withers Preserve properties an opportunity to view the project plans and gain a feel of the low country communities that will be constructed along Farrow Parkway.

As 2007 begins, the work on the Commercial portion of Market Common is advancing with utility, drainage and grading site work as seen in the above photos. We hope to have information available soon on aditional townhouse units and Condominiums. There has been a November update of the master site plan approval and the excitement continues to build as new plans are released and approved by the City of Myrtle Beach.

You can follow the following link to a map of the retail plan. simply (click here) to see the plan as a PDF.

Construction offices for the various builders on the complex are being readied at the far western edge of the complex. It's a bit hard to see exactly what is going on with a quick drive by, but know that there is a lot involved in coordinating all the various buildings so they all fit together and come up out of the ground as planned. Once buildings start going vertical we will see a lot more excitement in the project. I'll do my best to keep you updated as The Market Common is built.

Construction is underway on the 100 acre Market Common urban village on the former Myrtle Beach Air Force Base. The Commercial portion of the project is all under way and the residential townhouses and condominiums will be starting soon. Howard Street is being realigned to meet the specifications of the developers with center island trees. Some of the townhouses are also underway.

The tenant list continues to grow as more stores and restaurants are announced by developers McCaffrey Interests. The latest published list includes the following:

Anthropologie
Aveda Modern Salon & Day Spa
Banana Republic
Barnes & Noble
Brooks Brothers
Carlyle & Company
Chico’s
Cold Stone Creamery
Coldwater Creek
Consolidated Theatres
Copper Penny Shooz
Divine Steakhouse
Francesca’s Collection
Gordon Biersch Brewery
Luxottica Collection
Orvis Sporting Traditions
P.F. Chang’s China Bistro
Piggly Wiggly (Wait til you see this one)
Planet Beach Tan
soma by Chico’s
The Wine Room
Tommy Bahama Tropical Cafe and Emporium
White House|Black Market
Williams-Sonoma

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On July 9th, 2005 The Sun News of Myrtle Beach reported that the ground will be broken this fall on the awaited urban village, The Market Common and it will "woo residents with South Carolina's first P. F. Chang's China Bristo, a movie theater, upscale grocery and an Irish pub"

The article continued to state that "this is developer McCaffery Interests' first list of tenants for the mixed-use residential and retail development that will be the Grand Strand's largest urban village. Apartments and condos will be built above restaurants and retail on the former Myrtle Beach Air Force Base in a pedestrian-friendly design modeled after the nation's oldest cities."

The Sun News continued to quote both McCaffery Interests President Dan McCaffery and the Myrtle Beach Air Force Base Redevelopment Director, Buddy Styers as saying that there will be more fashion and home-furnighings retailers as well as other restaurants to be announced in the next few months.

Accorting to the story somefive or six restaurants and 50 retail stores will be added to the 16 screen theatre type seating theatre which is expected to be one of the anchor retailers to the village. Other exciting new additions are expected.

P.F. Chang's, a Chinese bistro with 115 restaurants in 32 states, will also serve as a development anchor, according to The Sun News story.

McCaffery stated "P.F. Chang's is one of the most sought-after restaurants in the nation. They're one of the most successful in America and they go only to the very finest projects," McCaffery said, according to the story.

Piggly Wiggly Carolina Company will bring an upscale version of its grocery store to the Grand Strand.

Claddagh Irish Pub will make its first venture into South Carolina, adding to the restaurant's more than a dozen national locations. The restaurant concept was founded in 2000 by an American and an Irishman, who decided to bring the best of the Ireland pub to the United States.

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