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Chicken wings — that messy appetizer that bar-goers are always after, often debating which destination has the best offering. The Lowcountry is, of course, filled with fried chicken, but it also has its fair share of establishments serving some quality chicken wings. Whether the occasion calls for smoked, fried, charred, dry-rubbed, or lathered in hot sauce — these destinations are the undisputed best 16 stops in Charleston for that essential bar snack.

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Nigel’s Good Food is a North Charleston staple, with a second location in Ladson. Folks travel far and wide for Nigel’s very popular Geechie Wings. The chicken is battered, fried, and tossed in a homemade sweet-and-sour wing sauce.

North Charleston’s Holy City Brewery pairs its beers with an extensive bar food menu — including wings. The chicken is smoked and then fried. Customers can choose from nine selections of rubs and sauces, including Nashville Hot, Carolina Gold barbecue, honey sambal, and more.

King BBQ co-owner Corrie Wang grew up in Buffalo, New York, so husband Shuai Wang had to put out some real-deal Buffalo wings covered in the distinctive tangy, buttery red sauce. It is only available on Sundays and pairs well with the Bills games on the television.

Home Team BBQ’s smoked chicken wings are dry-rubbed with a touch of sweetness and served with a side of Alabama white sauce — customers looking for an extra kick can add the two-ounce Death Relish for good measure. Cool it down with a frozen Gamechanger — the restaurant’s take on a Painkiller.

The Royal American on Morrison Drive has a long list of cheap beer and food for guests looking to kick back. The Magic Wings are crispy and best finished with a spritz of lime, best followed by a sip of Miller High Life. The spice comes from Szechuan peppercorns.

Moe’s Crosstown, a cave of a sports bar, takes pride in its pub fare offerings, and the wings reflect, as they come freshly prepared with lots of meat on the bone. Find 15 different sauce options, including the sweet and spicy hot honey mustard and the diabolical Moe Hotter.

Stop by rollicking Vietnamese restaurant Pink Bellies for the garlic “KFC” wings. Despite the moniker, these are far superior to anything the fast food chain puts out. Chef Thai Phi covers the chicken in a sweet soy glaze and tops it with blue cheese and pickled daikon.

Okay, it may be hard to stray from Bay Street Biergarten’s freaky tater tots, but the sports bar also offers up some delicious smoked chicken wings with the usual offerings plus pineapple Sriracha.

Most regard Prohibition for its nightlife or as a place to have an expertly crafted cocktail, but it should be known that the speakeasy-style restaurant also has some of the best wings in the Lowcountry. Chef Greg Garrison uses a Memphis dry rub, and the charred wings sit on top of an irresistible Gorgonzola ranch.

King Street’s Charleston Beer Works is a place to drink beer, watch sports, and consume lots of chicken wings. The sports bar offers 15 different sauces, and patrons can order up to 100 wings at a time.

Sports bar the Brick offers tons of wing flavors to pair with beers and football. There’s 18 flavors, including Old Bay, garlic Parmesan, Buffalo ranch, and more.

Barbecue spot Swig & Swine offers smoked wings in a variety of flavors: dry rub, barbecue, peanut butter and jelly, Alabama white, Tabasco honey, hot honey mustard, and white hot.

This renowned dive bar offers multiple sauce options on its chicken wings, most notably its famous “buffiyaki” creation. Make sure to bring an extra dollar bill, as the Griffon’s walls are covered in George Washingtons stapled on by visitors looking to leave their mark.

Szechuan spot Kwei Fei goes vegan in January, but once meat goes back on the menu, try the Four Rivers wings, which are marinaded, fried crispy, and rolled in a tongue-tingling spice rub.

Customers can order regular or boneless wings at Charleston Sports Pub locations across the Lowcountry. There’s 17 different flavors, and it offers a family wing box with 40 wings and French fries for $54.99.

The wings at Mexican restaurant Minero are grilled over charcoal and then shaken up at your tableside with a liberal dousing of Valentina hot sauce. It’s smoky, tangy, and a little messy.

Nigel’s Good Food is a North Charleston staple, with a second location in Ladson. Folks travel far and wide for Nigel’s very popular Geechie Wings. The chicken is battered, fried, and tossed in a homemade sweet-and-sour wing sauce.

North Charleston’s Holy City Brewery pairs its beers with an extensive bar food menu — including wings. The chicken is smoked and then fried. Customers can choose from nine selections of rubs and sauces, including Nashville Hot, Carolina Gold barbecue, honey sambal, and more.

King BBQ co-owner Corrie Wang grew up in Buffalo, New York, so husband Shuai Wang had to put out some real-deal Buffalo wings covered in the distinctive tangy, buttery red sauce. It is only available on Sundays and pairs well with the Bills games on the television.

Home Team BBQ’s smoked chicken wings are dry-rubbed with a touch of sweetness and served with a side of Alabama white sauce — customers looking for an extra kick can add the two-ounce Death Relish for good measure. Cool it down with a frozen Gamechanger — the restaurant’s take on a Painkiller.

The Royal American on Morrison Drive has a long list of cheap beer and food for guests looking to kick back. The Magic Wings are crispy and best finished with a spritz of lime, best followed by a sip of Miller High Life. The spice comes from Szechuan peppercorns.

Moe’s Crosstown, a cave of a sports bar, takes pride in its pub fare offerings, and the wings reflect, as they come freshly prepared with lots of meat on the bone. Find 15 different sauce options, including the sweet and spicy hot honey mustard and the diabolical Moe Hotter.

Stop by rollicking Vietnamese restaurant Pink Bellies for the garlic “KFC” wings. Despite the moniker, these are far superior to anything the fast food chain puts out. Chef Thai Phi covers the chicken in a sweet soy glaze and tops it with blue cheese and pickled daikon.

Okay, it may be hard to stray from Bay Street Biergarten’s freaky tater tots, but the sports bar also offers up some delicious smoked chicken wings with the usual offerings plus pineapple Sriracha.

Most regard Prohibition for its nightlife or as a place to have an expertly crafted cocktail, but it should be known that the speakeasy-style restaurant also has some of the best wings in the Lowcountry. Chef Greg Garrison uses a Memphis dry rub, and the charred wings sit on top of an irresistible Gorgonzola ranch.

King Street’s Charleston Beer Works is a place to drink beer, watch sports, and consume lots of chicken wings. The sports bar offers 15 different sauces, and patrons can order up to 100 wings at a time.

Sports bar the Brick offers tons of wing flavors to pair with beers and football. There’s 18 flavors, including Old Bay, garlic Parmesan, Buffalo ranch, and more.

Barbecue spot Swig & Swine offers smoked wings in a variety of flavors: dry rub, barbecue, peanut butter and jelly, Alabama white, Tabasco honey, hot honey mustard, and white hot.

This renowned dive bar offers multiple sauce options on its chicken wings, most notably its famous “buffiyaki” creation. Make sure to bring an extra dollar bill, as the Griffon’s walls are covered in George Washingtons stapled on by visitors looking to leave their mark.

Szechuan spot Kwei Fei goes vegan in January, but once meat goes back on the menu, try the Four Rivers wings, which are marinaded, fried crispy, and rolled in a tongue-tingling spice rub.

Customers can order regular or boneless wings at Charleston Sports Pub locations across the Lowcountry. There’s 17 different flavors, and it offers a family wing box with 40 wings and French fries for $54.99.

The wings at Mexican restaurant Minero are grilled over charcoal and then shaken up at your tableside with a liberal dousing of Valentina hot sauce. It’s smoky, tangy, and a little messy.

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - Former South Carolina governor and United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley spoke to voters in North Charleston on Wednesday.

The presidential hopeful told people in her home state that her campaign is far from over, despite being behind Donald Trump in the Iowa and New Hampshire primaries.

When Haley addressed the crowd Monday night, she made it personal, talking about her time as governor. She changed up her stump speech from the past few she’s given it across the country, skipping over basic introductions and her childhood in the state.

Two voters at the event said they support Haley because they’ve seen her as a successful leader here in the Palmetto State.

“Just with her being governor and seeing what she did as governor, I’m just going to continue to follow her,” John Mulik, who has lived in Charleston for 40 years, says.

Cheryll Wood-Flowers was mayor of Mount Pleasant from 1992 to 2000.

“I like that she’s a very strong woman because I consider myself a very strong woman [who] raised strong women. And I think that she has great ideas to take this country where it needs to be,” Wood-Flowers says.

Haley leaned into her time as a South Carolina leader touting prison reform, booming business and voter ID laws.

“There’s so many things that we did together. And when you think about all of that, just think if we can translate that over,” Haley says.

She advocated for nixing the federal gas tax, breaks for small businesses, school and curriculum choice, supporting veterans and helping the middle class, going into detail about her plans on each topic.

Haley started her speech by calling Trump’s recent comments about her “temper tantrums,” and him insecure, saying he should be threatened by her. That’s despite losing to Trump by double-digit points in Iowa and New Hampshire.

“We’ve only had two states that have voted. We’ve got 48 more that deserve to vote,” Haley says.

The former governor continues to separate herself from the former president saying he sows chaos, while she wants to fix problems. And some voters seem to agree.

“I worked for Reagan, both Bushs, Bob Dole, John McCain, never voted for Donald Trump and never will. And because I don’t think that he’s a good role model for the children in this country,” Wood-Flowers says.

Haley says since New Hampshire, her campaign has raised $1 million from more than 200,000 donors. Right now, she’s using that and her hometown support to continue her campaign.

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CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – The South Carolina Ports Authority announced Tuesday it plans to purchase the former WestRock paper mill site in North Charleston to “further expand port capacity.”

WestRock announced in May 2023 that it would close the mill in late August, citing high operating costs and the need for significant capital investment as the driving factors behind the closure.

The SC Ports Board of Directors voted on Tuesday morning to move forward with a purchase sales agreement with WestRock. While the SC Ports did not provide a timeline, they said the transaction is expected to close “as soon as practical.”

Port officials said they also received support from the state for the project.

“South Carolina Ports is widely known as a top driver of our state’s booming economy, but that success doesn’t come by accident — it takes timely, strategic investments like this one. Every time we invest in port infrastructure, we see significant success at port-dependent businesses and new, good-paying jobs for our people. Our state’s investment in the expansion of North Charleston Terminal will yield dividends and create opportunities for future generations,” said Governor Henry McMaster.

“The tremendous backing from our state and an excellent partnership with WestRock allows us to make investments today that will support our state’s economy and create opportunities for future generations of South Carolinians,” said SC Ports President and CEO Barbara Melvin. “We are adding significant port capacity to support growth in South Carolina and throughout the Southeast.”

The approximately 280-acre property sits adjacent to the North Charleston Terminal. SC Ports leaders say the former paper mill site will offer a natural extension of the container terminal allowing them to handle more cargo for port-dependent businesses.

It could expand the terminal’s capacity to handle five million containers in the future and create 5,000 feet of linear berth space for container shops, and around 400 acres of terminal space for cargo.

Port officials said the South Carolina Department of Transportation (SCDOT) is playing a key role in the project. They are planning to expand I-526 and will replace the Don Holt Bridge, which would remove height constraints for larger vessels.

“Plans are also underway to achieve a 52-foot depth up to North Charleston Terminal. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Charleston District, is undertaking a feasibility study — a critical first step toward deepening this stretch of the Cooper River an additional five feet,” the SC Ports said in its release.

Leaders say the deepening and new bridge height will allow bigger ships calling the Port of Charleston to seamlessly access the North Charleston Terminal.

The S.C. State Ports Authority is looking for ways to protect BMWs stored at its waterfront Columbus Street Terminal in Charleston from the kind of water damage that hundreds of cars sustained in December at the agency’s cruise terminal less than 2 miles away.

Both low-lying sites are along the Cooper River and are susceptible to flooding during big rainstorms and king tides.

Passengers on the Carnival Sunshine returned to Union Pier Terminal the week before Christmas to find their automobiles damaged by a storm that flooded the Union Pier parking lot with high tides of nearly 10 feet. Spokespersons with the SPA and BMW wouldn’t say whether any of the German automaker’s Upstate-made vehicles have been similarly damaged while staging for export at the end of Columbus Street.

This month, the maritime agency’s board approved spending nearly $2 million to pave 18 acres at the Leatherman Terminal on the former Navy based in North Charleston so BMWs can be moved there when a big storm is approaching. The backup storage area will be behind the existing container yard, away from the waterfront.

The project “needs to be done in short order,” Walter Lagarenne, the SPA’s vice president of engineering and facilities, told the board. It’s expected to be completed by the end of May.

A study by the University of Tennessee shows an 18-acre parking lot could generally accommodate between 2,700 and 2,900 vehicles, depending on its configuration.

The paving work is among several steps the SPA is taking to protect BMWs and other export vehicles both at Leatherman and Columbus Street.

The agency installed tide valves and purchased pumps to help move water off the peninsula terminal’s parking area.

It also surveyed the site to identify areas where flooding is most likely to occur and then marked those areas with paint so vehicles won’t be stored there.

In addition, the SPA purchased AquaDams — temporary, removable barriers that can control or divert water — to keep flooding from reaching vehicles.

“The state has invested a great deal in the automotive sector, and automakers have invested significantly in growing operations here,” Barbara Melvin, the SPA’s president and CEO, said in a written statement. “As a critical supply chain partner for the automotive industry, S.C. Ports is proactively investing in port infrastructure to provide the capacity and operational excellence to support our customers’ global supply chains.”

BMW said in a statement that it has “a strong relationship” with the SPA and “we look forward to continuing to work together ... to address any weather events.”

Green aluminum

The Century Aluminum smelter near Goose Creek will soon give up its distinction as the newest in the U.S.

The Biden administration last week awarded $500 million to the Chicago-based company to build a new low-carbon metal-making factory as part of the White House’s push to support green energy initiatives. Century said it expects to build the smelter at a site within the Ohio and Mississippi River basins, potentially using renewable hydroelectric power.

The project is expected to create more than 1,000 full-time jobs.

A construction timeline wasn’t announced.

The number of domestic aluminum smelters has dwindled to four from 19 over the past two decades as foreign producers, mostly China, dumped cheap metal on the U.S. market.

The Mount Holly site, touted as the most modern of its kind, is currently the newest in the U.S. It opened in 1980.

The Berkeley County plant, which gets its electricity from Moncks Corner-based Santee Cooper, operates at 75 percent capacity and is reviewing plans to boost production.

A recent study by the Moore School of Business shows the smelter contributes nearly $773 million annually to the South Carolina economy.

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - The future of land in North Charleston lies in the hands of city council members, and it’s a breath of relief for concerned community members and a strain for the company urging its industrial use.

The city council will be the next step forward for the proposed plan after a request to rezone two parts of the former Baker Hospital property on the Ashley River. They will vote on whether the land will be rezoned from R-1 residential to M-2, heavy industrial and M-1, light industrial.

The city’s Planning Commission on Monday voted 5-1 to deny the recommendation to rezone before passing it onto council - saying it didn’t align with the best interest of the city’s comprehensive plan, the location to the Ashley River and the public interest of surrounding neighborhoods.

The land, defined as a brownfield, is a property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant, the Environmental Protection Agency says.

“We don’t need industry in our living rooms. We don’t need to breathe the fluid of industry in our neighborhoods. We don’t need to be impacted negatively that way,” Union Heights resident Skip Mikell says.

The Charleston County Parks and Recreation Commission and Sea Fox Boats have a 90-year lease with the goal of building a manufacturing plant on 11 acres of the 46-acre property. Sea Fox Boats owner Freddy Renken says they plan to bring 200 or more jobs to the area and will fund the construction of a waterfront public park.

The commission says rent paid by Sea Fox Boats and its dry stack marina would offset operations and maintenance for the park. Nothing has been finalized or started because this is in a due diligence phase.

The park itself would have the following amenities:

Renken did not speak at the meeting but a company lawyer shared insight on his behalf:

“What is there not to want about this? To turn a brownfield into a park that provides jobs and an economic engine. With Sea Fox Boats, the City of North Charleston will be able to build planes, cars, boats. I think that is pretty cool,” Ronald Richter says.

Despite the push for approval, a resounding “no” was heard from a crowd of North Charleston homeowners and supporters. They say the company never shared its plans with surrounding neighborhoods and businesses, including Union Heights, Chicora-Cherokee and Accabee.

Mayor Reggie Burgess also pushed for a full recreational park option to be considered following the initial plan release.

Charleston County Parks states in this press release they planned on releasing public input meeting dates in early 2024. As of now, no updates have been provided.

The commission released the following statement:

The Charleston County Park and Recreation Commission (CCPRC) recently entered into a public-private partnership with the locally-owned Sea Fox Boat Company at its Ashley River site. The company is in a two-year due diligence phase, which includes addressing zoning and permitting issues.

Per the partnership, Charleston County Parks would continue to own the entire property, with tenant Sea Fox funding the creation and maintenance of the future public park. This would allow Charleston County Parks to develop and operate the park without taxpayer funds. Because of the site’s history as the former Baker Hospital and as a phosphate processing plant, it has created a brownfield that will require costly environmental efforts to make it suitable for recreational use.

The future county park would offer residents green space and views of the Ashley River. Other possible amenities at the park include a fishing/crabbing dock, trails, playground, splash pad, shelter for camps or programs, and unique event space. Public input meetings will be held to learn what the communities would like to see on the site. Once the zoning process has been completed, we will determine the timeline for the public input meetings.

Seventeen people spoke in opposition to the plan. Neighbors say adding the plant would not benefit their community in terms of work or play and are asking for the area to be solely a park.

“The neighborhoods we represent have some of the lowest unemployment rates in North Charleston. Chicora-Cherokee specifically has a 2.9 unemployment rate, which means our people are already working,” KJ Kearney says.

The planning commission stated in the agenda item they recommended denial because they believe the property’s location to the Ashley River makes the plant unfeasible and there is a “lack of support” to the city’s comprehensive plan.

Sea Fox Boats argues the area they are requesting rezoning for is on a brownfield, the former site of a phosphate processing plant and hospital, which would need environmental maintenance to make the area suitable for recreational purposes or greenspace.

North Charleston natives say they remember the smells, the sights and the feelings of growing up near the former plant and the concerns it raised for health and wellness.

“Those people don’t live here. So whatever damage they do, they leave at the end of the shift and go home. We live here and if there’s anything that we can do to prevent that kind of thing reoccurring. We’re going to do so,” Mikell says.

The site was donated to Charleston County Parks in 2015 by Charleston residents Michael and Jenny Messner of the Speedwell Foundation. The organization did not respond to a request for comment.

“The owner of that property is the Charleston County Parks and Recreation. Their purpose for being is to create parks, preserve and protect greenspaces,” Richter says. “We are not looking for the high bidder here, we are looking for the perfect partner to clean this place and make it a place of pride.”

The discussion will now go before city council starting on April 11 for its first reading. The next opportunity for public input will be on April 18.

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