MB's Kings Highway gets a little attention

By Lorena Anderson - landerson@thesunnews.com Ever since Broadway at the Beach, Coastal Grand mall, Grande Dunes, Robert M. Grissom Parkway and The Market Common opened, Kings Highway has been a little overlooked. Until today, that is. A group of city officials, Coastal Carolina University professors, tourism researchers and others interested in the corridor's future are getting together to talk about the possibilities. Myrtle Beach Planning Department interns surveyed the road last summer and found there were about 30 vacant buildings and properties along Kings Highway, including the former Pavilion and Myrtle Square Mall sites. Another survey this summer shows things haven't changed much, said city planner Diane Moskow-McKenzie. Some buildings have been reoccupied, some vacated and some repurposed, Planning Director Jack... [read full story]