Hotel, medical facility coming to Mount Pleasant

A Courtyard by Marriott hotel is under construction at one of Mount Pleasant’s most prominent intersections: the corner of Interstate 526 and U.S. Highway 17.

The130-room, 77,366-square-foot hotel is scheduled to be completed by September. It will have an outdoor swimming pool and a meeting room with capacity for 122 people.

South Hampton Ventures, a limited liability corporation that is a subsidiary of Bennett Hofford Construction Co. Inc., is the owner of the franchise being built on four acres just south of Mount Pleasant’s Towne Centre.

“We see it as the center of Mount Pleasant. We feel like it will be a great location and have really good visibility for people coming in from (Interstate) 526 and (U.S.) 17,” said Tracy Ray, a developer with Bennett Hofford.

CPI General Contractors is handling the approximately $13.5 million project.

Next to the hotel and fronting U.S. 17, Imaging Specialists of Charleston is building a 14,500-square-foot medical imaging facility that will be the first stand-alone office for the 21 radiologists of Charleston Radiology Associates PA. It is an expansion for the group, which primarily provides radiology services for Trident Medical Center and Summerville Medical Center.

Imaging Specialists of Charleston will offer advanced technology at no additional cost, including a 3 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging technology, which offers higher magnetic field imaging that is not widely available.

“This is the next generation of MRI,” said Dr. Michael Garovich, president of Charleston Radiologists PA. “What’s really exciting is added quality doesn’t cost patients any more than studies on a lower field strength magnet.”

 The new imaging center will offer 24-hour turnaround for results and a boutique environment that is more like a hotel than a medical facility, said Hunter Kerrison, spokeswoman for Imaging Specialists.

Imaging Specialists of Charleston is scheduled to open in June.

By Kathleen Dayton , Staff Writer

as provided by Charleston Regional Business Journal