MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (WCSC)- A food, entertainment, and public gathering space will be going before Mount Pleasant’s commercial design review board for a final site review on Wednesday night.
The space is called Gather Mount Pleasant and would be located on Midtown Avenue right across from MUSC Midtown in Mount Pleasant and off of HungryNeck Boulevard.
The co-developer of Gather Mount Pleasant, Mack Cross, said that this project would cost $14 million. He said he wants it to serve as a place for friends and families to come and enjoy time together.
“Spend time, you know, ideally away from screens and have conversation, meet neighbors here, host out of town visitors,” Cross said. “A place that Preston, our other partner and co-developer, are really kind of planning for families like ours and a place where we would like to meet our community and spend time.”
Cross said Gather Mount Pleasant will have a similar atmosphere to Gather Greenville but it will be bigger. Along with a variety of food and beverage options and live music like Gather Greenville, Gather Mount Pleasant will have additional features like retail, office and salon space.
However, the site Gather Mount Pleasant would sit on has townhomes around it and Cross said they have had to modify their designs because of some residents’ concerns .
“We reduced the scale of the project. Originally we had a hotel component, we have since gotten rid of that. The economy changed through the process, so that was a factor as well, you know, so just navigating all those different factors and really wanting to be thoughtful about the design and making sure that it’s a great fit for this site and this community,” Cross said.
One of the concerns residents expressed was noise, however, Cross said they have addressed this with the setup of the project and wouldn’t be having live music played late at night.
“So the scale of the building and where the stage is located within the project the buildings will provide some natural sound screening for that stage, but yes, we are sensitive that this is a residential area,” Cross said.
Cross said he believes the project they have designed now is the best concept they could be bringing to the area. If approved at the commercial design review board meeting, Cross said the next steps would be for them to finish their construction drawings and then submit those to the Town of Mount Pleasant for building permit approval.
He said they hope to break ground in early spring or summer with construction expected to be completed in the middle of 2026.
“It is a place for many occasions, spontaneous occasions. It’s really hard to go out with a big family or multiple families and find a place to eat that’s welcoming and you know not too expensive and you know where you’re not disrupting people,” Cross said. “I can think of numerous occasions of times where you know we will end up here and hopefully others will too.”
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