Have you ever driven by the old Jim and Tammy Bakker built “Hertiage Towers”? The towers are located in Fort Mill SC Regent Park off of US Hwy 21. Is the tower an eyesore for nearby Fort Mill home owners or a diamond in the rough for future senior citizens? If you have not seen Heritage Towers, you’ll find a high rise tower located in what seems to be an odd location for such a tall 21 story structure. There is a fence around the building shielding anyone from falling bricks off of the building. Basically the tower and some areas around the tower look like an un-kept,?decaying, ?unfinished safety hazard.
Tower owners Morningstar Ministries will meet with York County Council on March 5th to discuss the fate of the tower. Moringstar Ministries has been trying to restore the tower to be used as a high rise christian based retirement complex. Unfortunately their restoration plans, which started in 2004, have never been fully implemented or completed. York County has been pressuring on the group to restore or tear the tower down since 2007.
The long battle between York County and Morningstar Ministries is scheduled for a final resolution in March. The public is invited to the March 5th York County Council Meeting to listen to Morningstar Ministries “final” proposal to the County .
What’s your?opinion. Should the Towers stay or be taken down?
PLEASE tear this eyesore down! 2004??? It’s been 8 years and NOTHING is happening but a building getting even more run down and bringing down property values. I would HATE to live in that community with that structure. It’s not safe. I know many people who feel the same as I do. I don’t know why York County puts up with the baloney that the tower is going to be refurbished. You would really have to have a screw loose to buy into the whole retirement community thing. Most people buying into it would be dead by the time something actually happened with it… or most likely NOT (because the tower will just keep rotting where it stands).
The towers are what put this town on the map… but they are a bit of an eyesore.