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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.
Atlantic City’s real estate market has had a relatively busy spring so far. A shell company earlier this month spent $510,000 on an Atlantic City building that includes a Pacific Ave storefront and apartments, the Best Western has a new mortgage and a Stockton donor has acquired two beach-block lots from the Atlantic Club.
In the bowels of the former Trump Plaza, there are dumpsters filled with armchairs and other soft furnishings. The owner – billionaire Carl Icahn – looks to be getting rid of every last thread of his remaining Atlantic City property.
Under overcast skies as gale-force winds blew across the bay, a group of soccer players from as near to home as Somers Point and as far afield as South America and Europe ran drills and bantered on Atlantic City turf yesterday.
Developers Curtis Bashaw and Craig Wood have ended their business relationship. Bashaw told the New Jersey Economic Development Authority of the relationship change in a request to restructure two defaulted loans.
The world-famous Atlantic City boardwalk appears (wiggle word) about to get a little longer, according to a first-hand analysis by yrstrly at Route 40, who just took a bike ride down to 101 Boardwalk, which is a gem by the way.
Atlantic City Council on Wednesday night voted in favor of allowing open containers in certain parts of the city’s Tourism District. The city by itself has no power to permit local bars and restaurants sell take-out drinks. But the council’s move was an important step to show the state that the city wants the law changed, officials in favor of the legislation said.
Here is a small plot of land in Atlantic City’s Tourism District that happens to serve as a collection point for a lot of disused liquor bottles. Before we get ahead of ourselves, I have nothing against park-drinking.
The biggest syringe-exchange program in New Jersey is facing pressure from Atlantic City Council, where some members are looking to revoke the local rules permitting its operation.
The editorial duo at Route 40 sat down with Atlantic City Mayor Frank Gilliam and his Millennial Understander Beard to talk Bader Field, marijuana reform and the future of the city.