Are new businesses opening at Broadway at the Beach in Myrtle Beach? Here’s what we know

According to a lease plan for Broadway at the Beach, new businesses could open at the entertainment and shopping complex.

Broadway at the Beach’s parent company, Burroughs & Chapin, keeps a lease plan on its website for investors looking to open a property there. On the plan, each building has a number or letter and number identifying the unit and two properties are listed as ‘Lease Pending’.

One of the properties with a lease pending is R7, the former location of Key West Grill. The restaurant, which had previously occupied Broadway at the Beach for 25 years, closed in 2020 and has sat empty and walled off for less than four years. According to the map, the other property with a lease pending, numbered 159, sits next to the former location of Key West Grill.

The Sun News reported in March 2024 that 13 units were either listed as available or with a lease pending on the plan. In August 2024, the plan shows eight properties listed as available or with a lease pending.

The Sun News reached out to Melissa Armstrong, Burroughs & Chapin’s marketing director, who did not return a request for comment before publication. Heather Gale, a public relations professional working with Burroughs & Chapin, also did not return a request for comment before publication.

Burroughs & Chapin, the owners of Barefoot Landing, creators of Grande Dunes and one of the largest land-owning companies along the Grand Strand, have previously not returned requests for comment. However, one of the company’s most notable parcels of undeveloped land could be soon feature something new.

The former site of the Pavillion amusement park, which closed in 2006 and Burroughs & Chapin also owns, could be converted into a 6,000-seat multi-purpose venue that resembles a baseball park, according to a rendering the City of Myrtle Beach submitted to the state, which The Sun News obtained.

The City of Myrtle Beach wants to develop several parcels it owns between North Kings Highway and Flagg Street, surrounding the Pavillion tract, into a new multi-use development area. The rendering plan also showed retail shopping spaces and a hotel.

The Sun News reported in August 2024 that the Myrtle Beach Pelicans could move to the proposed multi-purpose venue if ultimately built, but a City of Myrtle Beach official added that the baseball diamond-shaped venue would be usable year-round.