Redevelopment Plans for Garden Pier, the Kennedy Plaza Pavilion and more…
Atlantic City has opened up 14 parcels of land for redevelopment, including Garden Pier, the Kennedy Plaza Pavilion and blocks in the South Inlet bordered by Atlantic, Massachusetts, Grammercy and Vermont avenues slated for residential construction
The parcels, owned by both the city and the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, will be discussed at a noon meeting Wednesday in City Council chambers. The meeting will be hosted by Elizabeth Terenik, Atlantic City’s planning director.
Proposals are due from developers by Aug. 11.
The city wants the parcels, located both within and outside of the Tourism District, to be used for residential, commercial and mixed-use development, according to the specifications mentioned in its request for proposals informational package.
Council President Frank M. Gilliam and Terenik said last week that the city chose to solicit proposals for the land in question instead of selling it in order to encourage real development, not land banking.
“I’m hoping for a developer or a group of developers that show us how they can build the new coastal living standard,” Gilliam said. “It’s very important for us to bring forth realistic projects that will shift the paradigm. This town will be back.”
Gilliam and Terenik said the city wants to promote sustainable developments that use as much independently produced, and renewable, energy as possible, a response to the infrastructure damage done by Hurricane Sandy.
Terenik added that the resort is also exploring ways to produce the sustainable materials needed by developers, aiming to “create an industry of green infrastructure.”
Other parcels open to RFPs include land located at the 400 block of Maryland Avenue, the 800 blocks of Wabash and Adriatic avenues, at the intersection of Arctic and N. North Carolina avenues, at the intersection of Route 30 and North Pennsylvania Avenue, and a kiosk at 1800 Boardwalk.
