Restaurant alert: Doughnut, ice cream shops planned for North Myrtle Beach airport

Two new fast-food restaurants — a Dunkin’ and a Dairy Queen — got tentative approval to set up shop in the Windy Hill neighborhood of North Myrtle Beach.

The land the two properties will sit on is owned by Horry County and is located just outside of Grand Strand Airport, a small airport landing strip mostly used for small private aircraft. On Thursday, a county committee gave initial approval to lease 1.4 acres next the airport to a shopping center with retail and food.

The lease goes before Horry County Council for approval next, and the proposed shopping center construction must still be given a final check by the Federal Aviation Administration.

Dunkin’ and Dairy Queen are the only two specific businesses proposed for the shopping center right now. However, Horry County’s assistant director of airports Judi Olmstead said there could also be some retail added later on.

Chase Karacostas

The Sun News

Chase Karacostas writes about tourism in Myrtle Beach and across South Carolina for McClatchy. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2020 with degrees in Journalism and Political Communication. He began working for McClatchy in 2020 after growing up in Texas, where he has bylines in three of the state’s largest print media outlets as well as the Texas Tribune covering state politics, the environment, housing and the LGBTQ+ community.