[CPEO-MEF] REUSE: Myrtle Beach (SC) golf course

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Myrtle Beach leaders fought for, and won, much sought after  
Whispering Pines golf course at Myrtle Beach Air Force Base

By Alan Blondin
Myrtle Beach Sun News (SC)
April 2, 2013

MYRTLE BEACH - When it became apparent that the Myrtle Beach Air  
Force Base was going to close, Myrtle Beach city leaders created a  
bucket list of base properties they were interested in acquiring.

Whispering Pines Golf Club was at the top of that list. City leaders  
went after the course, and got it.

The course became and remains the only municipal course among  
approximately 100 on the Grand Strand.

“We knew at some point in time somebody was going to take it over,”  
said Richard Kirby, the city’s parks superintendent who held the same  
position when the course closed with the rest of the base in 1993.  
"In the early 1990s golf was hot in Myrtle Beach. A lot of people  
wanted this place."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2013/04/02/3414849/myrtle-beach- 
leaders-fought-for.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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