We'// Soon We/come Folks In Style!
BY MARJORIE MEGIVERN
It's just a mailer of months until
visitors will cross Brunswick
County's state line and find an
immediate, tangible welcome.
A stylish building with friendly
help and hospitality for the traveler
is now rising on the Shallotte by
pass with a target completion date
of January, 1992. BMCO Construc
tion Co. broke ground in December,
1990, at the intersection of U.S. 17
and Hwy. 130 on the bypass.
Susanne Sartelle, executive vice
president of the South Brunswick
Island Chamber of Commerce, said
the welcome center will occupy
about 1,400 square feet and will
cost approximately $80,000 just for
construction.
Sartelle is one of eight county
people who serve as the board of di
rectors for the project, with Dean
Walters as president Talk of the fa
cility has been in progress for sever
al years. 'The DOT (Department of
Transportation) made the decision
years ago as to the location of this
center," she said. "Before making it,
they held meetings for public inpuL"
Funding for the project comes
from the South Brunswick Islands,
Southport-Oak Island, and Greater
Wilmington chambers of com
merce, as well as the Cape Fear
BEACON FILE PHOTO
THE VISITORS CENTER got off the ground literally , last Nov. I, when Department of Transportation Secretary Tommy Harrelson, cen
ter right, and Dean Walters, member of the Visitors Center board, wielded a shovel together. Other board members look on.
Coastline Visitors Bureau. Bruns
wick County Board of Commission
ers also contributed to the two
county chambers for this purpose.
"That's just construction money,''
Sartelle pointed cut. "We depend on
individual and business donations
for the furnishings."
The center will include a large
lobby with a desk and counter, an
office, storage room, loft and out
side restrooms.
According to Sartelle, the board
will soon hire a director for the cen
ter who will, in turn, hire a support
staff of four, both full and part-time.
Excessive Easter Traffic;
BY MARJORIE MEGIVERN
If you veterans of the Shallotte
"creepway" can endure one
more indignity over the Easter
holiday, a rare treat is in store for
you by Memorial Day.
Hardy survivors of bumper-to
bumper holiday processions through
Shallotte, impossible left-turns and
claustrophobia that accompanies
that crawl along U.S. 17, can take
heart. Relief is at last in sight!
D.W. Boylston, resident engineer
for the state Department of Trans
portation, while warning of a new
and frustrating snarl over Easter
weekend, has assured us that by
Memorial Day traffic will sail along
the completed by-pass.
'For about 90 days, beginning in
Mirch, we'll have to turn U.S. 17
triffic at the north end of the bypass
onto Red Bug Rd. (State Road
1156)," he explained. "The detour
will take traffic to the light at Hwy.
130, then on 130 brck to intersect
with 17 on the south side."
Boylston pointed out that pa
tience would be required, because
the detour road is not as wide as 17
and its shoulders are narrow, too. "It
amounts to about VA mile longer
than going straight down 17," he
said.
The good news is that by late
May the bypass work necessitating
the detour will be complete and so
will the 4.8-mile bypass. Well, al
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Then Memorable Memorial Day
most. "We'll still have a few things
to do, but we can put traffic on the
bypass and no one will know we're
working on the road," Boylston
said.
A sizeable difference in grade at
the northern entrance to the bypass
required the re-routing of traffic so
that two tall banks could be tied to
gether. When completed, motorists
coming from Bolivia can turn right
onto a level access road.
Boylston said the project, costing
$3.86 million and begun in 1987, is
about on schedule. By July of this
year all the "odds and ends" will be
completed.
Another part of the package is the
four-laning of U.S. 17 from north of
Bolivia to the South Carolina line.
This is still in progress, with only
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two sections due for completion this
year. Boylston's office said the sec
tion from Bolivia to Supply will be
finished in September and the seg
ment from Bolivia north to the
Hwy. 87 intersection has a Decem
ber completion date.
Right-of-way engineer, Gordon
Bordeaux, acknowledged that a
number of buildings, both business
and residential, are being relocated
in the process. For the two sections
remaining in the plan, the one from
Hwy. 211 to Shallotte requires that
ten residences and nine businesses
be moved; the final, longer seg
ment, from Shallotte to the South
Carolina line, will result in the relo
cation of 43 residences and 29 busi
nesses.
"You must keep in mind," he
said, "that some of those businesses
are housed in the same building.
The total number of businesses does
not reflect the correct number of
buildings moved."
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