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Brigantine’s city council has drafted an ordinance that would ban single-use carryout bags. The rule goes beyond the 5-cent fee on carryout bags that neighboring shore towns Ventnor and Longport recently introduced.
The Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office put out a statement Tuesday on investigations into sexual assaults of Stockton University students, of which there are four now, citing “concerns raised by the public and the media.”
So much real estate news in the City of Atlantic City! Amy Rosenberg has a long interview with Wasseem Boraie, the developer of the 255 unit multi-family project on what used to be Pauline’s Prairie. It has a pool. I didn’t know it had a pool. This changes everything!
New Jersey Transit is shutting down the AC to Philly train line for four months, effective September 4, to install safety systems I think they were supposed to put in months ago? The line needs to close not for the work to happen, but so they can move personnel from here to the north, to help run additional services while work happens up there. NJTransit knows better than anyone how the North/South divide works in New Jersey.
The long-awaited Donald Trump Museum of Atlantic City had its debut the other day in front of the moldering husk of the TRUMP Plaza Casino at Columbia Place and the Boardwalk.
Statewide eviction filings dropped to their lowest levels in more than a decade, according to the valuable NJ Spotlight, but the picture in South Jersey is less rosy. In Atlantic County, filings are up 5.7% year-over-year. In Salem County, they’re up 7.5%.
The Casino Reinvestment Development Authority is considering building laptop lounges on the upper floors of the Atlantic City Convention Center. The project – which currently exists as a request-for-proposals – would allow businesspersons to plug in and work from the sidelines of conferences. But could it be the opportunity to do something more?
Stockton sold Seaview for $21 million to one of those collections of letters with the word “capital” appended. ABC Capital or EFG Capital or whatever. Look, the point is that the socialists are coming for your plastic guns. The Press of AC’s Vincent Jackson has an ace report on this year’s blueberry season, which is winding to a close. Since blueberries are picked by hand, by immigrants, this bullsh*t with the kids in cages at the border has naturally impacted the bottom line.
Looking at an aerial photograph showing off Atlantic City’s near-desolate South Inlet neighborhood and its new $38-million storm-protection structure, the New Yorker had a question.
“Did you have a lot of challenges justifying your cost analysis?”
A federal judge ruled Atlantic City must pay nearly $679,000 to cover legal fees for Steven Stadler, who was beaten by police officers after he robbed a car wash on Albany Avenue.