Battery Park Development Could Transform North Charleston Naval Base

It’s been more than 30 years since the Lowcountry learned the Charleston Naval Base would close, shutting down the tri-county’s largest employer

Three decades later, people are learning what the future has in store for the north end of the former base in what is to be called Battery Park. It’s poised to become North Charleston’s new urban center, with development across the northern base that would connect the Park Circle area to the city’s south end with businesses, entertainment and thousands of new residences

The development scale rivals some of the largest in the greater Charleston area: 3,000 to 4,500 new residences along with a minimum of 825,000 square feet — possibly much more — of commercial space that will include entertainment venues, restaurants, shops and offices.

Here’s the proposed schedule for construction, starting next year, according to the developers’ timeline:

• 2024: Civic Pavilion across Noisette Creek from Riverfront Park, facing a planned “event lawn.” The pavilion would be adapted from what’s known as Building 1601 and “can serve as a public market, event space, entertainment venue and interpretive center,” according to the proposal.
• 2025: Pavilion completed. Infrastructure, hotel and restaurant, multi-family housing, retail and parking garage construction begin.
• 2026: Townhouses and second phase of office, multi-family residential, retail and restaurant construction start.
• 2027: Phase 3 of infrastructure and multi-family housing. From earlier phases, 325 multi-family units and 238,800 square feet of commercial space ready to lease.
• 2028: Phase 3 of retail and restaurant construction, more multi-family housing start. Another 635 residences ready to lease, and 423,000 additional square feet of commercial space.
• 2029-30: Remaining multi-family, office, retail and restaurant construction begin. Another 886 homes and 15,000 square feet of commercial to lease.
• 2031-32: Final 1,102 residential units and 215,000 square feet commercial space to lease.

Over nine years, the project schedule calls for 2,958 new residences and 891,800 square feet of commercial space — assuming North Charleston gets title to the remaining 21 acres of federal land.

Construction at Battery Park could begin next year.

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