Top stories: Little River revamp, data center confusion, highway shutdown
Top stories in the Myrtle Beach area that you may have missed include a push to transform Little River’s waterfront into a mini Murrells Inlet, confusion over a proposed data center and a fiery truck crash that closed a major highway.
Here’s a look at what happened across Horry County:
– Mako’s Marina Bar and Grill owner Steve Martin is pushing a plan to turn Little River’s waterfront into a mini MarshWalk similar to the popular boardwalk in Murrells Inlet, with restaurants, a marina and a boardwalk connecting waterfront businesses. Horry County has set aside about $3.5 million to hire a master planner for the broader Little River redevelopment, a project delayed for more than 30 years due to lawsuits and political disputes.
– No data centers are planned in unincorporated Horry County, officials confirmed, after a Facebook post led residents to confuse a billion-dollar AI data center proposed in Conway, Arkansas, with Conway, South Carolina.
– A log truck overturned and caught fire on SC Highway 90 near Hillsborough Drive in the Conway area around 8:16 a.m. Monday, spilling logs across the roadway and blocking all lanes until it reopened at 12:20 p.m.
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