A new grocery store could open near Market Common. Is it a Trader Joe’s? What we know

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Myrtle Beach area residents have long desired a Trader Joe’s open in the Myrtle Beach area.

Social media posts regarding rumored Trader Joe’s opening garner much attention . While South Carolina has three Trade Joe’s locations in Columbia, Greenville and Mt. Pleasant —with a fourth scheduled to open in Mt. Pleasant — Myrtle Beach does not.

However, this doesn’t stop residents from carpooling to Wilmington, N.C., to buy Trader Joe’s groceries and Sun News readers voting the national chain as the store they want the most in August 2023.

Once more, Myrtle Beach residents are speculating on social media, claiming that Trader Joe’s will open in Myrtle Beach. One Facebook user claimed the grocery store will be in the SayeBrook Town Center near Ulta Beauty at 120 SayeBrook Parkway .

In an email to The Sun News, according to Trader Joe’s Public Relations Manager Nakia Rohde, Myrtle Beach’s status has not changed.

“We are actively looking at hundreds of neighborhoods across the country as we hope to open more new neighborhood stores each year,” Rohde wrote in an email. “At this time, we do not have a location confirmed in Myrtle Beach. We list all of the stores that are opening soon on our website.”

Despite this, a new grocery store could open at the SayeBrook Town Center. According to leasing material provided by Colliers, the investment management firm that oversees leasing at SayeBrook , a “National Grocer” is scheduled to open a new building at the town center near Ulta Beauty in 2025. It’s unclear when the SayeBrook brochure was made and if it’s up to date.

According to Horry County Land Records, the parcel in question, located at 222 Brookton Circle , applied for a commercial permit for the tract July 19, 2024. The permit is under review for a 13,505-square-foot ‘New Retail Shell Building” valued at about $1.7 million.

According to CSP Daily News, a business publication focused on retailers and suppliers, Trader Joe’s stores are typically 15,000 square feet.

Rox Pollard, vice president & director of retail services team for Colliers in Columbia, declined to comment and directed The Sun News to Steve Alger . Alger, a vice president at The Jackson Companies in Myrtle Beach — which owns SayeBrook and Prestwick Country Club — did not return a request for comment before publication.

Jackson Companies President & CEO Dennis Wade also did not return a request for comment before publication.