Malls · South Carolina

The Mall at Shelter Cove Mall

From the authors' mapPartial RedevelopedPartial RegreenedPartly retrofittedHilton Head, SC

Partial Redeveloped · Regreened in 2013.

Status nowPartly retrofittedauthors' map reported

What it becamepark, housingextracted, unreviewed reported

Retrofit year2013authors' map reported

Walkability8.5 of 20 · 15-minute 3 of 6EPA, OpenStreetMap

Rail within 800 mNoOpenStreetMap, HUD

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The Mall at Shelter Cove Mall — Exterior view of a former shopping center with distinctive architectural features and surrounding greenery. · verified by a vision model. Photo: Mike Kalasnik from Charlotte, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Former anchors

Belk

This site: Belk wikipedia · all sites with this

Finance and pipeline

On Facebook

This site: …https://www.facebook.com/101698363309867 overture · all sites with this

Website alive

This site: …http://www.sheltercovetownecentre.com overture / http check · all sites with this

Place

Grocery within 800 m

This site: 2 stores openstreetmap · all sites with this

High coastal flooding risk

This site: Relatively High fema-nri · all sites with this

High hurricane risk

This site: Very High fema-nri · all sites with this

High natural hazard risk (FEMA NRI)

This site: Relatively High; hurricane, coastal flooding, lightning fema-nri · all sites with this

High-income tract ($100k+)

This site: $138,022 census-acs · all sites with this

Low social vulnerability tract (SVI ≤ 0.25)

This site: 0.20 cdc-svi · all sites with this

Tract income up 60%+ since 2013

This site: +66% census-acs · all sites with this

Strategy

Redeveloped

This site: Redevelopment: mixed use Partial regreening: park record · all sites with this

Regreened

This site: Redevelopment: mixed use Partial regreening: park record · all sites with this

New use

Housing

This site: …evelopment: mixed use Partial regreening: park two luxury apartment buildings extraction · all sites with this

Mixed use

This site: Redevelopment: mixed use Partial regreening: park two luxury apartment buildings extraction · all sites with this

Park and open space

This site: Redevelopment: mixed use Partial regreening: park two luxury apartment buildings extraction · all sites with this

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From the authors' map

SC, Hilton Head: The Mall at Shelter Cove Mall/ Shelter Cove Towne Centre, 2013
• Redevelopment: mixed use
• Partial regreening: park

Shelter Cove Town Center, Hilton Head, SC - partial

Now

Status	Partly retrofittedauthors' map reported
Strategy	Partial Redeveloped · Regreenedauthors' map reported
New uses	park, housingextracted, unreviewed reported
What is there now	Redevelopment: mixed use Partial regreening: parkauthors' map reported
Retrofit year	2013authors' map reported

Links out

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Official records (5)

government and regulatory records for this site, built from ids on the record

Census tract 45013011100 profile (data.census.gov)from data.census.gov
Census tract 45013011100 on Census Reporterfrom censusreporter.org
Beaufort County (45013) profile (data.census.gov)from data.census.gov
FEMA flood map (NFHL) at this point (search)from msc.fema.gov
EPA ECHO facilities within 1 milefrom echo.epa.gov

Reference (4)

encyclopedic and research references

Wikipedia articlefrom en.wikipedia.org
Wikimedia Commons photos within 500 mfrom commons.wikimedia.org
Retrofitting Suburbia (book site)from retrofittingsuburbia.com
Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on Wikipediafrom en.wikipedia.org

Place (8)

map and street views by coordinates

Google Mapsfrom google.com
Street Viewfrom google.com
Bing Mapsfrom bing.com
Apple Mapsfrom maps.apple.com
OpenStreetMapfrom openstreetmap.org
Walk Score at this pointfrom walkscore.com
Transitland mapfrom transit.land
USGS National Mapfrom apps.nationalmap.gov

Market (2)

listings and owner pages; commercial, so search engines are told not to follow

LoopNet: for sale in Hilton Head, SC (search)from city search
The site's own websitefrom sheltercovetownecentre.com

News (3)

news searches and archived pages

Google News: “The Mall at Shelter Cove Mall” (search)from name search
Bing News: “The Mall at Shelter Cove Mall” (search)from name search
Wayback Machine · www.sheltercovetownecentre.com (2015–2026)from web.archive.org

History and original facts

Now called / also known as	Shelter Cove Towne Centre, Shelter Cove Town Center
Anchors	Belk, Kroger
County	Beaufort County
Census division	5 · South Atlantic
Notes	Map entry: Shelter Cove Town Center, Hilton Head, SC - partial

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Planning

Planning notes	two luxury apartment buildingsextracted, unreviewed

Site context

FEMA flood zone	X · AREA OF MINIMAL FLOOD HAZARDFEMA NFHL
EPA-regulated facilities within 500 m	2: KROGER #671-11; SHELTER COVE PATHWAY IMPROVEMENTSEPA FRS
Census tract 45013011100	2,316 people, 687 per sq mi; median household income $138,022; median gross rent $2,397; 26% renters; 67.3% vacant units; 0.0% commute by transitACS 2023 5-year
Walkability (EPA, block group)	index 8.5 of 20; 59 intersections per sq mi; no transit stop within the EPA search radius; land-use mix 0.79; 8,198 jobs within 45 min by car; 0% of households without a carEPA Smart Location
Within a 10–15 minute walk (800 m)	3 of 6 daily needs: 2 grocers, 0 schools, 4 parks or playgrounds, 0 health, 0 civic, 8 food and drink; 8 cycleway segments, 11 sidewalk-tagged segmentsOpenStreetMap
Opportunity Zone	noHUD
Housing permits, Beaufort County (SC), 2024	608 units in 5+ unit buildings, 0 in 2–4, 1,030 single-family; 2023: 274 in 5+Census BPS
Social vulnerability (CDC SVI 2022, tract)	overall percentile 0.20; socioeconomic 0.34; housing and transport 0.26; 6% below 150% of poverty; 2% of households with no vehicleCDC/ATSDR
Other atlas sites nearby	0 within 10 km, 1 within 25 kmcomputed
Overture Maps	place Shelter Cove Towne Centre (shopping_mall, confidence 0.98, from Overture, Overture-signals, meta); building footprint 3,073 m², 5.4630022048950195 mOverture (CDLA-Permissive 2.0)
Website and social	www.sheltercovetownecentre.com (alive); archived 2015–2026 (Wayback) · social: facebookOverture / Internet Archive
Attention: Wikipedia page views	15,868 since 2015; 1,336 in the last 12 months (+21% vs the prior 12); peak 2017-06 with 351Wikimedia
Tract change 2013–2023	population +4% (2,221 → 2,316); median income +66% ($82,969 → $138,022); renters 23% → 26%; median home value +37% ($677,100 → $925,300)Census ACS 5-year
Natural hazard risk (FEMA National Risk Index, tract)	relatively high overall (score 97.3); expected annual loss $6.4M; high: hurricane, coastal flooding, lightning; community resilience relatively moderateFEMA NRI
Tax-credit housing within 1 km	noneHUD LIHTC
Retail trade in the county, 2025 (BLS QCEW)	11,569 jobs in 811 establishments; average annual pay $40,475; employment location quotient 1.62; employment +0.0% on the yearBLS QCEW 2025, NAICS 44-45, private
Jobs located in the tract, 2022	2,443 jobs; 667 in retail trade, 761 in accommodation and food (workplace blocks summed to tract 45013011100)Census LEHD LODES8 WAC 2022
Upward mobility (Opportunity Atlas, 2010 tract)	children of low-income (25th percentile) families reached the 49th income percentile as adults; -0.1% incarcerated at the 2010 count (68 children in the sample); born 1978–83, measured 2014–15Opportunity Insights
Food access (USDA FARA 2019, 2010 tract)	not a low-access tract at 1 mile; 6% of residents more than 1 mile from a supermarket; poverty rate 6.9%; median family income $88,971; 0 SNAP householdsUSDA ERS
Schools	Beaufort County School District (PK-12); 0 public schools within 1 mileNCES EDGE
Elevation	14 ft above sea level at the site pointUSGS 3DEP
Storm events in the county, 2016-2025	333 county-logged events: 250 thunderstorm wind, 32 lightning, 22 hail, 16 flash flood; $3,306,750 property damage reported; forecast-zone events (most flood, winter and heat) not countedNOAA Storm Events
Homes for sale in ZIP 29928, 2026-09	median list price $451,250 (-20.1% on the year); 556 active listings; median 111 days on market; 17% with a price cutRealtor.com Research
Retail trade in the county, 2012 to 2023	801 establishments (+10%); 11,509 jobs (+27%)Census CBP
Housing market in the county	typical home value $552,182 (+2% 1 yr, +35% 5 yr); typical rent $1,990/mo (+1% 1 yr), 2026-09Zillow Research
House price index, tract, 2012	223 (2000 = 100), -42% 5 yr, -1% 10 yrFHFA
Traffic on the busiest road within 600 m (2024)	27,200 vehicles a day on WILLIAM HILTON PKWY (principal arterial, 4 lanes); 1,855 trucks; 13 counted segmentsFHWA HPMS

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Multifamily screen

retrofit already built
county grew 5.2% 2018–23
median rent $1,484
housing in the record

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Background

Shelter Cove Towne Centre, formerly The Mall at Shelter Cove, is a mixed-use lifestyle center located in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. The center features two anchor stores, which include Belk and Kroger, a park, and two luxury apartment buildings.

Excerpt from Wikipedia (authors and history), CC BY-SA 4.0. May be older than the record above.

Timeline

2013 Retrofit: redevelop, regreen

Sources

Retrofitting Suburbia Interactive Mall Map (ArcGIS web map ce33ab26…) · 2021-01-20
ArcGIS Online · 2022
Wikipedia: The Mall at Shelter Cove · 2026-08-05 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Cite

Retrofit Atlas (2026). "The Mall at Shelter Cove Mall, Hilton Head, SC." Record m-0cd8f2dd1c, from the authors' map. Built on the public Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed. https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/sc/hilton-head-the-mall-at-shelter-cove-mall/ (accessed 2026-10-21).

BibTeX

@misc{retrofitatlas_hiltonheadthemallatsheltercovemall,
  title = {The Mall at Shelter Cove Mall, Hilton Head, SC},
  author = {{Retrofit Atlas}},
  howpublished = {\url{https://retrofitatlas.org/malls/sc/hilton-head-the-mall-at-shelter-cove-mall/}},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Record m-0cd8f2dd1c, release 2026-10-21, tier: curated. Built on the Retrofitting Suburbia map (Dunham-Jones and Williamson) and the sources listed on the record. Accessed 2026-10-21}
}

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