b'OURS IS THE LEGENDARYThe City of North Charleston broke ground early this year on a new STORY OF A REGION THAT ISfacility to replace the Danny Jones Athletic Complex in the lower end of the city. The $25 million project will include a pool, gym for volleyball, UNFLINCHINGLY FORWARD basketball and badminton, five new USTA-standard tennis courts, a roller rink and multi-purpose youth athletics field. Guided by the value that says you leave things better than you found them, Mayor Summeys personal legacy has the well-being of peopleIn another $20 million project designed to create something everyone at its core. He is proud of his participation in a regional partnership toin the community can use, Park Circle in North Charleston is creating bring quality jobs to the area. Of the domino effect, he says Growthmore of an arts-infused building to cover the different art forms that begets growth. If you create an environment where people want topeople are interested in today. It also has an all-inclusive ballfield, live and offer jobs to entice them to move here, they benefit and theprobably the largest in the country, where children with special needs people who serve them while theyre here benefit. New neighborhoodscan participate with children who dont have special needs. It will have spring up. Parks are renovated to serve more and younger people asartificial turf fields so children in wheelchairs can play ball. Were building the population changesas young families need things like bettera section that will house covered activities for families along with a playgrounds and enclosed swimming pools. farmers market.Growth draws new things to us that improve the quality of life forA new three-gym basketball complex on Remount Road, the largest everyone, including people with a birthright to this estuary. Thisgym with seating for 1,000 and a glassed-in booster section, hosts observation is important to the mayor. He points to major renovationstournament play from across and outside the state.of two recreational pieces original to the WWII era because needs in the community today are not met by the amenities that were created then. They were sacred to a lot of people, and it took considerable commitment on the citys part to sell the needs of the new generation. 42 CHAMBER RETROSPECTIVE250 YEARS'