Mount Pleasant Magazine May/June 2019

68 www.MountPleasantMagazine.com | www.BestOfMP.com | www.ReadMPM.com feature A n array of recreational activities, from basketball and volleyball to sock hops and pickleball, have returned to Mount Pleasant’s Town Hall complex — and there are more improvements on the way. The town’s new gymnasium officially opened its doors in April, 15 months after ground was broken where Police Department headquarters and the town’s old gym once stood. Those buildings were razed in August 2017, shortly after the nearby Town Hall was completed. “With the demolition of the old Town Hall Gym in the summer of 2017, the Mount Pleasant Recreation Department has been limited in its ability to meet the indoor court needs for our programs,” said Steve Gergick, the town’s recreation director since April 2017. That will no longer be a problem for the town, which had been using the gymnasiums at Trident Academy and Oceanside Collegiate Academy, as well as its Park West facility, since the old gym was demolished. The new, 25,000-square-foot Town Hall Gym was built at a cost of $6.144 million by Charles Blanchard Construction Company of North Charleston. Stubbs Muldrow Herin of Mount Pleasant served as the architect for the project. According to Gergick, the new gymnasium was modeled after the facility at Park West, with a few modifications. For instance, the town chose to push a wall back 10 feet to accommodate four volleyball courts instead of two. And, depending on which lines on the floor you pay attention to, the Town Hall Gym features two full-sized basketball BY BRIAN SHERMAN BIGGER and BETTER than Ever New Mount Pleasant Town Hall Gym Open Steve Gergick, the Town of Mount Pleasant’s recreation director.