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Originally Posted by Kidphilly
At this point is there any true rationale to keep these zoned mega blocks Its obvious there are already to many Casinos and growing competition. Maybe am naïve but truly what is the incentive to retain these. Maybe some connected politicians but these will never be developed into large scale developments
I go back to Asbury park as their scale of development would make more sense and also has large swath along the beach and boardwalk
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I'm not too close to the situation but I think it's casino and building trade union interests making the decisions. They're not delusional enough to think more casinos will get built but they do believe that consolidating all the land for a master plan is the best way to develop, which would be fine if they actually had a plan that could be executed- they have absolutely no real plan. Small land owners and small developers don't have the political pull to change things there. I guess the problem is that zoning decisions in 'tourism district' are made by unelected CRDA instead of Atlantic City government.