Murrells Inlet: Economic study finds growth along county border

By Jason Lesley
Coastal Observer

March 21, 2013

Sue Sledz, executive director of Murrells Inlet 2020, was scheduled to make her case today before the Georgetown County Accommodations Tax Advisory Committee for funds to mow grass along 3.6 miles of the median of Highway 17 Bypass bordering the inlet.

“It’s the front door of Georgetown County,” Sledz said, showing slides of what she called the “ratty” median to inlet residents attending the spring Chowder Talk this week.

Estimates of the mowing, trimming and trash pickup are $27,000 the first year with Murrells Inlet 2020 and a local bank picking up $7,000 of that tab and projecting that it will become self-sustaining within six years.

She will eventually ask for $83,000 to cover the $200,000 estimated cost of the project until 2019.

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