Saturday saw some of the worst flooding in the Atlantic City area since Superstorm Sandy. We compiled some social media posts that reflected the extent of the flooding, and residents’ humor in dealing with it.
Worker Safety In Hotels
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Assemblymen Mazzeo (Vince) and Armato (John) are sponsoring a bill requiring hotels with at least 25 rooms to provide portable emergency contact devices or “panic buttons” to employees (i.e. housekeeping) to protect against inappropriate conduct by guests that make work conditions unsafe.
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What Is The Atlantic Club’s Owner Up To?
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The Atlantic Club is still up for sale and its owners just modified a $10 million mortgage on their other Atlantic City Boardwalk property, The Claridge. These things are not related, Dale Schooley, director of acquisitions for the owners, TJM, told me yesterday.
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Seen And Heard At The Stockton Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony
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Big day in Atlantic City yesterday, as it felt like half the political class of the state was in Lower Chelsea for a few hours.
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Atlantic City Business Applies For Medical Marijuana Permit
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A medical marijuana dispensary and farm could could take over the buildings and lots used by Calvi Electric in the center of Atlantic City’s Tourism District, according to a plan filed with the tourism district planning authority this week.
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CRDA Considers “Laptop Lounges” For Convention Center, Should It Think Bigger?
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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?
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Protecting The Many Or The Few
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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?”
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UPDATE: Atlantic Club Pays Tax Lien, Avoids Foreclosure
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The owner of the Atlantic Club, facing a foreclosure filing, has paid off back-dated taxes and interest from 2017, according to one official familiar with the court proceeding. The tax liens on the aging former casino at the southern end of Atlantic City’s Boardwalk were worth almost $1 million.
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Developer Behind Atlantic City ‘Orange Loop’ Buys Land Package From Schultz, Hill
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The developer behind the planned ‘Orange Loop’ project t0 bring a mixed-use development to a run-down Atlantic City beach block has paid just under $1 million for 11 vacant properties owned by two local businessmen and land owners.
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Another Lot Now Available Near Emerging AC Development Hotspot
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As developers from Asbury Park and closer to home are piling into long-neglected beach blocks in Atlantic City’s downturn, one Tennessee Avenue lot-owner has decided now is the time to sell. The Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints has put up for sale a Pacific Avenue-fronting lot directly across from St Nicholas of Tolentine Church.
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Another Development In Wings For Atlantic City’s Tennessee Ave Beach Block
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An Atlantic City beach block between St James Place and Tennessee Avenue should see a third development begin this summer from long-time city businessmen Abraham and Robert Schiff.