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Roy Costner III, Chairman of The South Carolina Entertainment and Music Hall of Fame, looks forward to the future of the state’s best<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/story-highlights> For more than a decade, re<\/span>cent inductees into the\u00a0South Carolina Entertainment and Music Hall of Fame\u00a0(SCEMHOF) only received limited digital recognition.<\/p>\n In September 2013, a fire destroyed the former Georgetown enshrinement site, which displayed memorabilia honoring the likes of Marcus King<\/a>, Chris Rock<\/a>, Vanna White<\/a>, and 70-plus artists who contributed to the Palmetto State’s entertainment and music fabric.<\/p>\n Now, instead of rebuilding another museum, the statewide non-profit entertainment entity has its sights set on building a facility in the Upstate that integrates those inducted, while offering a full-encompassing entertainment and educational experience.<\/p>\n “How do we create a standalone entertainment complex?” said Roy Costner III, chairman of the SCEMHOF. “Not a museum, but a place you can go and watch the Hall of Famers in the recording, podcast, or film production studios.<\/p>\n “My dream is to have it as a restaurant, a microbrewery, and we get Hall of Famers to come in all the time and mix and mingle with the people that are there,” Costner added.<\/p>\n According to Costner and preliminary project documents, a new entertainment complex for the Hall of Fame would cost around $30 million, attract 350,000 visitors, and generate approximately $35 million in economic activity for the Greenville area each year.<\/p>\n Through Hall of Fame inductee-based events and a “Legacy in Motion” grant program, the Hall of Fame organizers view the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson area as well-positioned host for a new entertainment complex to ideally open by 2031.<\/p>\n “Greenville has a great arts and cultural fabric that is growing, so I think this would be a great destination,” said Justin Ray Williams, executive director of SCEMHOF.<\/p>\n “This is the destination for the arts in South Carolina, and keeping that legacy and its rich entertainment history is what we’re building this for,” Williams added.<\/p>\n Here is more on the idea behind a new facility that would honor South Carolina’s most coveted entertainers and musicians:<\/p>\n\n