Fencing surrounds the planned site for a 70-room hotel lot at the corner of Scott and Port Republic streets in Beaufort, South Carolina, Thursday, June 15, 2023. A lawsuit seeking an injunction to stop construction was denied earlier in June. Tony Kukulich/The Post And Courier

Where do things stand?

What last week’s lawsuit dismissal means for downtown hotel, parking garage projects

By Tony Kukulich

The Post and Courier

BEAUFORT — A lawsuit seeking to block construction of a 70-room downtown hotel and parking garage has been dismissed by a South Carolina court.

The ruling last week was a setback for developer Graham Trask in his efforts to keep the projects championed by the Beaufort-based 303 Associates from moving forward. Trask has filed two separate, but closely related, lawsuits contesting construction plans, which received final approval from the city’s Historic District Review Board in June 2021.

“In my opinion, these huge buildings, that either had been approved or were in the process of being approved, and were immediately adjacent to my property, had not followed the city’s laws,” Trask told The Post and Courier.

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