CHS | Vote Tuesday… Charleston’s future is at stake
It’s impossible to overstate the importance of Charleston’s mayoral election. The City is at a crossroads. Traffic congestion has worsened; May is now gridlock. Hundreds of new hotel rooms have j ...
CHS | That proposed Cruise Terminal – Where are we now?
Two years ago, United States District Court Judge Richard Gergel handed the cruise terminal opponents their first victory, tossing the SPA’s federal permit to build a proposed $35 million terminal at ...
Visual Impact Analysis: Cruise ships in downtown Charleston
Check out this slideshow by The National Trust depicting the visual impacts larger cruise ships will have on our skyline.
Port Love | If You Were Mayor
Port Love Jun 30, 2015 by Whitney Powers We applaud the Ports Authority for their $5 million investment to be used for the purchase and protection of land along the Cooper River watershed to mitigat ...
Planning Commission wants city to find alternative site for cruise terminal
Charleston’s long-awaited tourism management plan got a green light to move forward Monday provided city leaders look for an alternative to Union Pier as the site of a new cruise ship terminal. The c ...
Letter to Planning Commission re. 2015 Update to the Tourism Management Plan, Cruise Recommendations
April 6, 2015 City of Charleston Planning Commission 68 Calhoun Street Charleston, SC 29403 Re: 2015 Update to the Tourism Management Plan, Cruise Recommendations Dear City of Charleston Plan ...
More container volume, new cruise ship for Port of Charleston
The Port of Charleston is seeing an increase in both cargo and cruise ships. Carnival Cruise Lines announced Monday that it will add five departures in 2016 for its Carnival Sunshine cruise ship. Tho ...
More cruises, more questions
Less than a month before the updated Tourism Management Plan gets its first official airing, the S.C. State Ports Authority is changing the tourism equation in Charleston. The SPA is allowing Carniva ...
A New Tide of Tourism
Ah, the Tourism Management Plan. Well, that got slightly derailed when Historic Charleston Foundation decided it could, in spite of the 2014 moratorium, add candlelight tours in February.(1) Now the ...
South Carolina Ports again seek cruise terminal permit
By BRUCE SMITH Associated Press Aug 16 2014 12:13 pm The cruise liner Crystal Symphony leaves the harbor in Charleston in this May 2013 file photo, The South Carolina Ports Authority is renewing it ...