Car wash near Hard Rock Park is unhappy with developer
Michelle Carolla/WBTW News13
Published: April 16, 2008
POST YOUR COMMENTSPublished: April 16, 2008
The owners of the Sandlapper Car Wash, near the old Waccamaw Pottery in Horry County, said they were looking forward to the new development surrounding their property. But now, they aren't so sure.
The property is the proposed Paradise City, in front of the new Hard Rock Park. Sandlapper is on the corner of George Bishop Parkway, near Highway 501. They said they are upset with Next Step Development, the company partnering with Hard Rock Park to build Paradise City.
The developer owns the land next to the car wash and they put up concrete barriers on their property. The car wash claimed they are blocking their business.
Eric Boyd said he wanted to be good neighbors with the businesses around his car wash. His family signed a 30-year lease on the property Sandlapper sits on, and that was seven years ago.
He said regular customers keep their business going, but now he claims these concrete barriers are keeping people out. He met with a representative of the development company asking them to take them down until construction started, but Boyd said that meeting ended abruptly. "They said that they would not be moved and that we would just have to find an alternate way of customers getting to our business,” said Boyd.
The Boyds hired an attorney who did verify that the old Waccamaw Pottery Outlet property in question belongs entirely to Next Step partners. That means they can legally put the barriers there.
"We thought they'd be a little bit better neighbors and not try to block the road or deter our customers from coming to us until that time comes we know business is business, we've got one to run too,” said Boyd.
A Hard Rock Park representative provided News 13 the following answer to our questions on behalf of Mr. Byrd. The answer is by Andrew Hoffman of Hard Rock Park.
“The property was recently acquired for development. The road is a private road, owned by the mall property owner. No businesses were blocked off. None of the businesses had any of their legal rights of access impaired. A property owner has a right to block off any private road where no access rights have been granted.”
Again, the developer has the right to put up the barriers. The Byrd family said they were excited about the possibility of their business growing alongside that area's growth, now they're just disappointed in how the relationship is working out.
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