Work starts on ‘gateway’ to Charleston’s WestEdge development

Plans to build apartments, offices and shops closer to the city’s medical district have been floated for years, but for more than a decade, the idea of mixing a research park with a retail corridor remained elusive.

Those plans are now moving closer to reality.

City officials, developers and Medical University of South Carolina administrators formally broke ground Thursday on a nine-story building that will eventually make up the public face of the WestEdge development just above Spring Street.

The building – named 10 WestEdge – is one of three that are now underway for the 22-acre development that’s intended at once to draw new talent to the medical university and to bring a sense of cohesion to the mix of hotels, office buildings and fast-food joints north of its campus.

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