- December 24, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – The Charleston City Council’s plan to improve King Street is now facing resistance from small business owners. On Tuesday, city council approved the first reading of the King Street Business Improvement District in an effort to revitalized the commercial hub that has many properties currently vacant.
Joel Sadler is the co-owner of Sightsee Shop & Coffee, a hole-in-the-wall business started right before the pandemic in September of 2019.
Sadler says an $11 million investment to extend and beautify King Street further up the peninsula would make everything in the area more expensive. They say it would increase property taxes, rent would go up and force the locals living in the area to move further away. He believes they would be priced out of business and the only people who would be able to afford property would be chains or wealthy business groups.
“We are primarily concerned that the data that we have – and there is…
