Pat Dowling Quotations

Growth in that particular area along Grissom has really escalated more than most people would have predicted, and the traffic pattern there is getting heavy. It's time to activate it to protect life.

We've talked with several tenants who want to go in there quickly. There's one or two larger tenants that have a project that would eliminate the building altogether.

The only thing I can tell you is we are looking for land there and land in four or five other places. We have nothing to announce ... We may or may not find what we want.

We think it will be a communitywide economic impact. Will the impact be limited to B&C properties? No. We think it will go far beyond that.

Broadway is still greatly successful. Visitation increases each year, as do sales.

There's still a lot of property to develop. We'll be expanding things across the bypass, and we'll be adding things at what you call Broadway at the Beach proper.

This is two firsts for the city. It's the first marina within the city limits, and it's the first time the boat show has been able to expand and put boats in their natural habit, the water.

For a while anyway, it is not going to be that visible a project. There is no one day that will be more impressive than another.

It's interesting to note that Broadway at the Beach's attendance and sales figures increased during 2005 despite the year-round existence of Coastal Grand. Coastal Grand itself also exceeded projections for 2005. The original theory was that there are both different and shared audiences for an enclosed mall environment and for an open festival retail environment along the Grand Strand, and that has held true.

They can't save a failed business from closing. If all of those 3,000 people went to the Pavilion and spent a week there, the park would still be bleeding red ink.