Philadelphia developer Bart Blatstein seems to be playing a very good game of real-life Monopoly. Wednesday afternoon, Atlantic City City Council is expected to name Blatstein the redeveloper of the Garden Pier, a storm damaged yet picturesque pier across from his Showboat property that is currently home to the city’s art and historical museums. The resolution gives the city and Tower Investments, Blatstein’s company, 90 days to...

ATLANTIC CITY — Imagine a world where residents and visitors could bike from Ventnor to Gardner’s Basin. If all goes according to plan, this cyclist’s dream could become a reality, said Elizabeth Terenik, director of planning and development for Atlantic City. Residents gathered in City Council chambers Wednesday evening for a public information session on the possibility of bike lanes on Atlantic Avenue. The bike lanes would be...

As many were busy reading yet another obituary for Atlantic City, Philly developer Bart Blatstein, smartly scooped up prime property via auction along the Atlantic City Inlet. To those still on the sidelines: You snooze, you lose. Bart was wide awake as he grabbed the 64,000 sq ft of water front parcels on OCT 8 of last year for $3.2 mil. What Blatstein will do with this trio of parcels is still unknown. Originally that land was slated to be the...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Developer Glen Straub said on Tuesday that he plans to reopen the shuttered Revel resort with a casino, although a smaller one than what was there before Straub owns the site, told The Associated Press he has made up his mind to offer casino gambling at the resort, ending a long period of uncertainty about its future. “We’ll have a casino that’s about 50 percent of what was there,” he...

Stockton completes Showboat sale to Blatstein After months of legal wrangling, political fights, and millions of dollars spent on maintenance and security at the empty building, the university finally sold the former casino property in Atlantic City. “Stockton is closing this chapter in our history, and moving on to exciting plans for the university’s future,” Harvey Kesselman, the university’s president, said in a...

In a surprise turn of events it now appears that the northern casino ballot question issue is dead until 2017. This occurred because Senate Pres. (D-3rd) and Assembly Speaker Pietro (D-32nd)failed to reach a compromise before the deadline passed