ATLANTIC CITY — The Casino Reinvestment Development Authority will consider redevelopment plans Tuesday to improve three neighborhoods in Atlantic City.
The projects intend to increase housing, employment and cultural opportunities in the Ducktown neighborhood, at the Sheraton hotel, and in the Southeast Inlet neighborhood.
The agency will review the plans at its 2 p.m. meeting before they are voted on by the City Council at its Wednesday meeting.
The Ducktown Arts District redevelopment plan comprises 513 parcels of land on 69 acres between Mississippi and Florida avenues, between Pacific and Mediterranean avenues.
“The plan is intended to help create a cultural center within the city which attracts visitors to its resources and where artists can live and show their work,” the plan read. “There is a vibrant and growing arts community in and around Atlantic City. The Ducktown Area will be a neighborhood for cultural institutions to find a home, as well as for individual artists to live and work.
“Situated directly adjacent to the Jim Whelan Boardwalk Hall, the area has the potential to become a vibrant community cultural resource,” it read.
The plan also aims to foster new economic activity outside the casino sector. It includes several large vacant areas.
The Sheraton plan would transform part of the 502-room hotel into condominiums, with retail, dining and entertainment uses in the area.
The city would designate a redeveloper for the project and negotiate on financial terms.
Permitted uses in the district would include hotels and customary accessory uses; multi-family high-rise residential; outdoor advertising signs facing the Atlantic City Expressway; student housing; live casino dealer suites; and banquet and wedding facilities.
The Southeast Inlet plan targets vacant lots or those with buildings “that are no longer suited to the area.”
“This area has seen recent investments including the Boardwalk/seawall reconstruction and park improvements along Pacific Avenue,” the plan document reads. But most of the five blocks included in the plan is vacant or underutilized.
These blocks would benefit from the development of townhouse units between the Boardwalk and Metropolitan Avenue along Pacific Avenue, the plan reads.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
Contact Wayne Parry:
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wparry@pressofac.com
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