MORNING HEADLINES | North Charleston is expected to build its first-ever skate park, replacing the J.V. Morris Playground, Mayor Reggie Burgess confirmed Monday after the North Charleston City Council voted unanimously to approve funding.
“Take your God-given talent and use that in ways where you can not only show what abilities you have but now because you’re around other people you have developed a friendship you never had before,” Burgess said, according to a report.
A Florida design and building company is set to be awarded a nearly $1.2 million contract to build the new skate park. City council is expected to vote on the design for the park in mid-April.
Meanwhile, in other recreation news, CARTA is bringing back its annual Beach Reach shuttle with a brand new bus.
The Beach Reach shuttle will kick off starting on Memorial Day, and will run every hour each weekend and holiday up until Labor Day from Mount Pleasant Towne Centre to the Isle of Palms County Park.
In other headlines:
CP NEWS: S.C. GOP tax plan would raise taxes for majority, analysis shows. A bombshell new report from the state’s Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office reveals a much-ballyhooed state Republican income tax cutting plan would actually raise taxes for the vast majority of Palmetto State residents earning less than $120,000 a year.
CP OPINION: McCorkle: Next steps now that Charleston Co. is aligned with ICE
“It creates significant distrust between immigrant communities and the police. Immigrants may be afraid to contact the police when crimes do occur. While not official policy, the program also tends to lead to greater racial profiling of anyone who “looks like” an undocumented immigrant.”
S.C. gas prices slightly increase. The price of gas in the state rose by an average of 2.1 cents per gallon in the past week, leaving an average price of $2.74 per gallon for Palmetto State drivers, according to a recent GasBuddy survey.
Tenants, records show life in Charleston Housing Authority. Some tenants in a Lowcountry public housing project say their living conditions are uninhabitable, while housekeeping inspection records show not all of them are getting checked.
Garden and Gun moving headquarters to old Charleston jail. Garden and Gun is set to begin operating out of the Old Charleston Jail on Magazine Street this summer, according to an announcement from Landmark Enterprises.
Charleston Co. creates $8M loan fund to help developers build housing. The Local Housing Trust Fund and its partner South Carolina Community Loan Fund will provide below-market loans to developers and organizations that build affordable housing.
Dockside residents begin moving items out one month after evacuation. More than a month after ordering the evacuation of Charleston’s tallest building, city officials and the Dockside homeowner’s association have agreed on a plan for removing residents’ belongings from the shuttered condominium tower.
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