The Carolina Park Recreation Complex in Mount Pleasant is open to the public, with the completion of the project’s final phases.
SeamonWhiteside, the civil engineering company behind the complex, completed the master plan in 2009, finishing phase one in 2010 and phase two in 2019, Whitner Kane, a landscape architecture team leader at SeamonWhiteside, said.
The team was able to complete phases three and four together after acquiring additional funding from Recreation Capital Improvement Funds and special revenue funds, Kane said.
The $7.8 million park is home to baseball and softball fields, batting cages, pickleball and basketball courts, a dog park, pond and other nature trails.
“Mount Pleasant’s grown significantly since 2009, especially in recreation through the Mount Pleasant rec department is really, really popular,” Kane said. “Scheduling of fields and adding fields has been a priority.”
The only elements of the complex’s plan which haven’t been completed are a few nature trails and boardwalks, Kane said. The group will depend on funding for whether those final touches will be completed.
In addition to civil engineering, SeamonWhiteside provides services such as landscape architecture, master planning, water resources engineering, construction administration and land surveying, according to their website.
The group has a history of development through South Carolina, completing projects for Clemson University and the Medical University of South Carolina, as well as the Greenville Top Golf and Charleston’s Credit One Stadium.
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Founded 40 years ago, SeamonWhiteside now has six offices, Mount Pleasant serving as the “home base,” Kane said, along with Summerville, Greenville, Spartanburg, Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina.
Kane said that each region of South Carolina has its own challenges, Charleston has a lot of flat land but needs to work around wetlands, whereas the Upstate has less flat land and works more towards level construction ground.
SeamonWhiteside’s next project is the Rifle Range Road Park which is expected to have the design and permits completed to start construction in spring of 2025, according to the town of Mount Pleasant website.
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