New resort planned for Hilton Head at site of former Adventure Inn

via The State 

by Dan Burley

Adventure Inn C 1968

Adventure Inn C 2015

A Hilton Head Island rental company has plans to transform the site of the former Adventure Inn into a beachfront resort.

Vacation Time of Hilton Head Island wants to build two six-story residential buildings on land once occupied by the inn. The complex on Lemoyne Avenue and South Forest Beach Drive would have as many as 125 two-bedroom units, according to plans submitted to the town.

Plans also call for two pools, an outdoor restaurant, a lawn, and boardwalks that lead to the ocean.

Vacation Time describes the development as a "signature destination resort." It is unclear from plans whether the buildings would be hotels, timeshares, condominiums or a combination.

The height of the buildings would rival other popular oceanfront developments on Hilton Head.

Buildings at the Beach House, Omni and Sonesta hotels are also 75 feet high, or about six stories. That is the maximum height for beachfront properties allowed by the town, according to land-management ordinance official Teri Lewis.

Vacation Time has planned to redevelop the property since 2008, when the Adventure Inn was demolished.

The inn was the last of the island's three original hotels.

Built in 1963, many early island investors stayed there, as did some of the earliest tourists who helped turn Hilton Head into a resort destination.

The inn also operated one of the island's first golf courses -- a nine-hole course across the street that was lighted for night play, where the Xanadu Villas condominium complex now stands.