Extension To Kings Highway
In 1998, the Myrtle Beach City Council considered a $6 million plan to extend Harrelson Boulevard (formerly Jetport Road) to Kings Highway at 29th Avenue South as "a four-lane divided parkway with bike paths and 'gateway-style landscaping'." Because of the planned mall, money for this project went to upgrading the existing road instead.
By September 2010, work was beginning on phase one of the road's extension, an alternative to Farrow Parkway during the reworking of that road's intersection with U.S. 17 Bypass.
Phase two of the road's extension to Kings Highway started September 15, 2011. The extension cost $8.9 million to build. A ceremony to celebrate the road's completion took place January 26, 2012, attended by Leroy Harrelson Jr., son of the city's first mayor for whom the road is named.
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