New businesses announced for Murrells Inlet Square Mall. What’s coming?
As redevelopment continues at a Murrells Inlet mall, additional businesses have announced plans to open on the property.
Phase two of the renovations of the Inlet Square Mall are currently in progress after demolition of parts of the property and building were completed last year, according to Real Estate Manager for Paramount Development Corporation Neal Bowers.
Construction of the new Hobby Lobby is close to being finished and is expected to open some time this spring, Bowers said.
Floor and Decor, 545 Mall Drive, has already opened and there are plans for a Chipotle to open in one of the outparcel lots near the Bypass, Bowers said.
A coffee company also is planned to be built next to Chipotle, but Bowers declined to identify the business.
Paramount Development Corporation is also working with other potential businesses, Bowers said, “but nothing I’m ready to announce.”
Construction also continues on a new Home2Suites by Hilton which will open near the Belk store at the mall. Paramount is not in charge of that construction, having sold the property for the building of the hotel, Bowers said.
Bowers said he can’t answer when the redevelopment will be complete as “it’s an ongoing thing.”
He said once the new facade on the north side of the Belk store is complete, additional spaces will be opened up. In addition, there are still several outparcels that will be open for future development.
But he does expect that by summer “a lot of these things will be open.”
“We’re ready for some new stuff,” Bowers said.
The mall opened in the late 1980s. However, business began to decline and as of 2018, many of the mall’s largest store spaces were vacant and other storefronts were without tenants.
