Contentious Mount Pleasant pool membership to open mid-September

MOUNT PLEASANT — A Mount Pleasant pool membership that had residents break up of their preliminary assist will open its gates quickly.

Old Village Swim Club, a membership-based membership surrounded by residential neighborhoods to its west, south and east, is on monitor to debut in mid-September, in keeping with Brian Collie, an actual property lawyer and one in all its backers. Collie is bringing the pool to fruition alongside Allen Biggers, a customized residential house builder, and Blair Belk and Trey Lucy, a pair of economic actual property brokers.

The membership is situated at 1305 Erckmann Drive in Mount Pleasant’s Old Village space. The principal constructing is 2 tales and spans 4,700 sq. ft, highlighted by a 40-by-75-foot swimming pool. The pool deck and floor ground may have showers and bogs, whereas upstairs may have two residential items — a one-bedroom and a two-bedroom.

Collie instructed The Post and Courier Aug. 27 the buyers had been impressed to create a pool membership due to the shortage of facilities in older Mount Pleasant neighborhoods, comparable to Cooper Estates, The Groves and Old Village. All 4 stay in Mount Pleasant, with three particularly residing within the Old Village space.

“Whereas if you look at newer neighborhoods, think I’On, Brickyard, Carolina Park, as part of those communities, there’s almost universally a pool and a clubhouse,” Collie stated. “A community-gathering hub for neighbors to come together and swim, and families to interact and get to know each other. We saw that in the old Mount Pleasant, Old Village area, that was missing.”

The membership has been within the works since 2024, after the Mount Pleasant Design and Review Board (DRB) accepted it. Several members of the general public — precisely 20 — voiced their opinion in regards to the venture, in keeping with the October 30 meeting minutes from that yr.