Town Center Master Plan

Purpose of the Town Center Plan?

City leaders understand that a thriving city must continue its successes. A thriving city is in a perpetual state of study, planning, design, implement to meet the needs and opportunities of a growing, livable community. Hanahan has numerous development and redevelopment successes, from downtown streetscaping, a new City Hall, and renovated City Gym to the Hanahan Amphitheater, Tanner Plantation, and Bowen Village, to name a few.  To this end, leaders embarked on a master planning process with the purpose to:

Envision and implement a Town Center Plan for downtown Hanahan that creates new opportunities for bringing people together and for establishing businesses and investments that will sustain Hanahan as a "Wonderful Place to Live, Work, and Play."

Goals of the Master Plan

City leaders established the following goals to guide the creation of the master plan, ensuring recommendations keenly focused on revitalizing downtown Hanahan. 

• Create a visionary and attainable roadmap for developing a vibrant, unique, and sustainable Town Center that captures and leverages the Charleston metropolitan area growth. 
• Create a capture and leverage plan that maximizes the Town Center real estate, the future Rivers Avenue/Remount Road Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) stop, the popularity of the Amphitheater, the new soon-to-be named park, existing local businesses, the Goose Creek Reservoir and the Cooper River. 
• Amplify the master plan with opportunities for third places that invite residents and visitors to linger, walk, shop, and contribute to the local economy. 
• Set the stage for a new Town Center that is ready for new investments and ripe for planting flags of new restaurants, retail, and unique local businesses. 
• Imbue an authentic sense of place that distinguishes Hanahan from the surrounding cities and towns.
• Reinforce Hanahan 2040: Pathway to the Future by creating an implementation framework for revitalizing the Town Center. 
• Incorporate development and planning best practices from similar cities. 
• Identify opportunities that create a dense, walkable, mixed-use district that becomes a thriving part of Hanahan's story.
• Engage and listen to the community to shape a master plan that reflects the City's vision.