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Old Posted Apr 17, 2007, 12:22 AM
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An update on lower Market: the Lippencott project is back on track and work is being done to renovate almost the entire 300 block on the Parcels side. Good news for the neighborhood.

By the way, the view's pretty good from the 12th floor at 500 Del. Ave.
Quit slacking, then

Take some pictures!
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did the city buy that land to south of christina landing? i hope they'll develop that whole southern edge of the city into a thriving south wilmington. is hak's and the "gold's club" considered wilmington, unincorporated land or new castle? if unincorporated isn't wilmington allowed to annex the land?
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rumor has it that Bucini Pollin has bought or optioned most of the realestate south of the river. Plans include a supermarket.

I don't know if thier plans extend as far south as Haks.
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a quik check shows Hak's being about 400 yards south of the city line.
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rumor has it that Bucini Pollin has bought or optioned most of the realestate south of the river. Plans include a supermarket.

I don't know if thier plans extend as far south as Haks.
oh alright thanks. i just know the people living in justison landing when it is built don't want to see junkyards our there right window lol. i think that would be a ripe area for condo's lined up that part of the river. it would remind you something of what the Padre's are doing, building condo's around there ballpark. wow imagine that condo's overlooking Frawley Stadium thats a good idea.
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As I remember, the junkyards are almost invisible from the top of the towers at Justison's landing.
A surpising number of trees screen out the view of the junkyards and the steel yard across from Haks is far enough away to be indistinct. you can see the cranes, bu tnot the dirty details.
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Mglan80,

have you taken any photo's from the roof of your new building?
today is nice and clear
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It sure does need some new life...

Is this the only thread for Atlantic City?
It seems odd that there are so little news and updates for this city.
If there is another thread, could someone post the linky?
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Some recent news article from Phila Inquirer

Posted on Thu, Apr. 19, 2007

Atlantic City Hilton plans to expand

By Suzette Parmley
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Atlantic City's smallest casino wants to expand into the big time and has plans to more than double its size.
Tony Rodio, president of the Atlantic City Hilton and Resorts casinos, said tonight that the Hilton might soon undergo a $1- billion-plus expansion to add a 1,000-room hotel tower, 60,000 square feet of gambling floor space, shops, restaurants, and a 3,500-seat multipurpose room that will be used as a ballroom, convention and meeting space, and for shows and concerts.

"We've been working on this for a while, a little more than the past six months," he said. "I think . . . we do better per square foot than any other casino in the city, and there is a huge demand for our product."

The addition will double casino floor space to about 120,000 square feet. The casino also plans to add 3,000 parking spaces with a new garage that will be connected by an enclosed walkway to the 2,000-space current garage.

Rodio revealed the plans at a relicensing hearing for the Atlantic City Hilton Wednesday before the New Jersey Casino Control Commission. The commission renewed the casino's five-year operating license.

He said tonight that he would present the plans to a special meeting of executives of Colony Capital L.L.C., majority owner of the Atlantic City Hilton's parent company, Resorts International Holdings. The Las Vegas meeting will include Thomas J. Barrack Jr., chief executive officer of Colony Capital, of Los Angeles.

"We've reviewed the plans with our chief operating officer, Roger Wagner, and the Hilton's chief executive officer, Nick Ribis," Rodio said. "But they have not been approved by Colony Capital as of yet."

Colony also owns casinos in Mississippi and Indiana.

Rodio said the company had retained the architectural firm of Bergman & Walls for the Atlantic City Hilton's expansion. The firm designed the original building, as well as the Mirage, Treasure Island and Paris casinos on the Las Vegas Strip.
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Here is another article from Phila Inquirer.

It has a some news about a bunch of projects in the city

Posted on Wed, Apr. 25, 2007

Hilton's plans reflect a larger-scale Atlantic CityCasinos in the resort are becoming taller, roomier, and much costlier to build. The Hilton hopes to expand to keep pace.
By Suzette Parmley
Inquirer Staff Writer
ATLANTIC CITY - Size matters in this seaside gambling mecca.
With at least four $1 billion gambling behemoths to be built in the next five years, the resort's smallest casino - the Atlantic City Hilton - has plans for a $1 billion expansion to more than double its size so it can compete in a market that has taken on a much larger scale.

"It will be a Borgata-like property," said Tony Rodio, president of the Atlantic City Hilton and Resorts casinos, referring to the golden-hued, Las Vegas-style mega-facility that redefined Atlantic City and became its top-grossing casino. "The Atlantic City Hilton is a wonderful little property that's just too small to compete with the big guys."

Rodio presented the plan to executives of Colony Capital L.L.C., which owns the Atlantic City Hilton's parent company, Resorts International Holdings Inc., late yesterday in Las Vegas.

"The meeting went well, and Colony is evaluating the project," Rodio said last night.

The Hilton owns land - along Pacific Avenue to Atlantic Avenue, and from Boston Avenue to two blocks north, heading toward the Tropicana Casino Resort - that could be used for expansion.

The casino floor would double, to about 120,000 square feet. Hilton also plans to add a 1,000-room hotel, restaurants, shops, a theater, and a 3,000-space parking garage.

The plan reflects the new climate in Atlantic City, where being small and outdated, like the former Sands Hotel Casino, can mean extinction. The Sands closed in November after it was bought by Pinnacle Entertainment Inc. of Las Vegas, which plans to build a much more substantial, $1.5 billion facility.

The Hilton was built by casino mogul Steve Wynn and opened as the Golden Nugget in 1980. Wynn sold it in 1987, and it was renamed the Atlantic City Hilton.

Rodio said the nearly 27-year-old casino had been constrained by its size and routinely had to turn hotel customers away. It last expanded a decade ago, when 300 hotel rooms were added.

The Hilton's 804 hotel rooms are the fewest among Atlantic City's 11 casinos, but its 96.4 percent occupancy rate was the highest.

"We have to turn away between 30,000 to 35,000 people a month who want to stay with us because there's nowhere to put them," Rodio said.

Gross operating profits at the Hilton increased 79 percent last year to $51.8 million.

But with the advent of slots competition in Pennsylvania in November, the restraints of the Hilton's size were beginning to show. Slot-machine revenue was down 6 percent, table-games revenue fell 10.2 percent, and total revenue decreased 7.4 percent last month compared with a year earlier, according to figures from the New Jersey Casino Control Commission.

The Hilton plans to add a 1,000-room hotel tower; 60,000 square feet of gambling-floor space; shops; restaurants; a 3,500-seat multipurpose room that will serve as a ballroom, convention and meeting space; and an events center for shows and concerts.

Rodio first revealed the expansion plans last Wednesday at a relicensing hearing for the Hilton before the New Jersey Casino Control Commission.

The timing may be in the Hilton's favor. This month, Colony announced that one of its casinos - Resorts East Chicago - was being sold to Ameristar Casinos Inc. of Las Vegas for $675 million, some of which could help finance the Hilton's expansion.

Rodio knows he has to move fast.

At least four casinos, owned by Morgan Stanley, Pinnacle, MGM Mirage and a private investor group from Atlantic City, are expected to open here by 2012 - putting intense pressure on small casinos to expand their business.

One of the new operators - Revel Entertainment Group, L.L.C. - announced yesterday that it had selected Tishman Construction Corp. to build its $1 billion-plus casino on 20 acres on the northern end of the Boardwalk. The owner of that site is Morgan Stanley, the investment-banking firm.

The existing competition also has been expanding. The Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa, Harrah's Marina and the Trump Taj Mahal casinos are adding hotel towers. The Tropicana is negotiating to add a boutique hotel next to its property.

Plans for a new hotel at the Hilton have been discussed since Wallace Barr was head of Caesars Entertainment Inc., which formerly owned the Hilton. The hotel was sold to Colony in late 2004 when Harrah's Entertainment Inc. was acquiring Caesars Entertainment.

"It's a great idea. They have a tremendous amount of land to work with," said Barr, who at the time negotiated the land deal for the proposed Hilton expansion. "It can't continue to exist as the smallest casino in Atlantic City."

Barr reemerged from retirement last spring as part of a local investor group that wants to build a $1 billion casino next to the Hilton.

A 30-year veteran of the gambling industry, Barr said the days of building $500 million casinos with 375-foot-high hotels and 500 rooms were long gone. Building-height restrictions in Atlantic City were eased after Bader Field closed in 2006, permitting towers of up to 800 feet that can hold 2,000 to 3,000 rooms.

He also said $1 billion was now the minimum to build a casino in the city.

"The last thing we want to do is build a Bally's or a Trump Plaza from the 1970s and 1980s that will clearly not be competitive," Barr said of his proposed casino. "You have to build for what Atlantic City is today and let the rest of the world catch up."
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There is TONS of stuff going on development wise in AC. I just don't post most of it. Within 5 years, there will be at least three, maybe four NEW $1-2 Billion dollar Las Vegas style casinos.
They removed height restrictions for the buildings since Badger Field is closed so some of the towers going along with these new casinos will be in the 800 foot range.
Everything is going up-scale.
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There is TONS of stuff going on development wise in AC. I just don't post most of it. Within 5 years, there will be at least three, maybe four NEW $1-2 Billion dollar Las Vegas style casinos.
They removed height restrictions for the buildings since Badger Field is closed so some of the towers going along with these new casinos will be in the 800 foot range.
Everything is going up-scale.
So, why don't you post "TONS of stuff" here then, SJPhillyBoy?
I am from Philly too, but I am interested in AC projects as well...
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The construction boom in this city is great. According to emporis the Harrah's Expansion Tower is 557 ft and UC and the Trump Taj Mahal Tower II is now UC (450 ft.) I would like to add them to the USA construction list but I don't know what year construction (foundation work) began for these towers. Is there anyone out there that knows??
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Atlantic City condo projects

Although there have been 7 or 8 high rise towers flashed around the city hall not one has put a shovel in the ground. The larger spectulators are trying to flip their ocean front block assembledges for about $300 per sq. ft. There doesn't seem to be a market for high end product yet.
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Agencies give final OK for wind farm
Delmarva, Bluewater to begin negotiations for offshore turbines
By AARON NATHANS, The News Journal

Posted Wednesday, May 23, 2007
DOVER -- Environmentalists exchanged high-fives on Tuesday after four Delaware agencies ordered Delmarva Power to negotiate to buy power from a proposed offshore wind farm -- the first in the United States.

Negotiations begin Thursday between Delmarva and Bluewater Wind to see if they can strike a long-term agreement to harness the wind over the Atlantic Ocean for Delmarva's standard offer service customers.

Delmarva also will negotiate with NRG Energy and Conectiv Energy to buy backup electricity, to pitch in on peak demand days, from a proposed natural gas-fired power plant in Sussex County. The agencies, gathering for a Public Service Commission meeting Tuesday, suggested NRG's Indian River site in Millsboro.

Bluewater says its wind farm would provide pollution-free, stably priced electricity for decades. The parties will consider placing scores of wind turbines, perhaps as many as 200, 7.2 miles off Bethany Beach or 12.5 miles off Rehoboth Beach. The turbines would be 406 feet tall, with the top 150 feet being the thin, spinning blades.

It would be the first wind farm built off the coast of this country. States such as Massachusetts and New York are debating the technology, and there are numerous offshore wind farms in Europe.

John Hughes, secretary of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, noted that he lives in Rehoboth Beach and looks forward to seeing wind turbines on the horizon on days when the haze lifts.

"I can't wait to look out there. I'm gonna love 'em," said Hughes, who voted for the directive. "Little Delaware, of all the states on the East Coast, chose wind power."

The decision comes a year after Delmarva's residential ratepayers took a 59 percent rate increase. Lawmakers told the state agencies to see whether building a new homegrown source of power would help stabilize prices without unleashing large amounts of new pollution. Over the past year, the prospects of wind power gained momentum with a public wary of the environmental effects of a coal-fired plant.

In a sense, Tuesday's decision marks a defeat for NRG, which had proposed building a large coal gasification plant at its Indian River facility. The company advertised it as a cleaner replacement for some of its existing generation units.

But NRG won a consolation prize: The agencies gave it the inside track to back up the wind farm with a small natural gas plant. Conectiv Energy remains a contender for the backup power, but language passed Tuesday said NRG's site could be a good fit for the backup facility. The agencies also said they hoped NRG would convert its older coal-fired plants to cleaner natural gas.

NRG spokeswoman Lori Neuman, in an e-mail, said: "We are pleased that the state agencies sought to clarify that the gas firming plant in Sussex County is a necessary component of the solution adopted." NRG looks forward to beginning discussions with Delmarva this week, she said.

The parties suggested negotiations conclude within 30 to 60 days, with some flexibility.

Delmarva Power President Gary Stockbridge came under criticism several weeks ago for his vow not to negotiate. On Tuesday, he sounded more conciliatory.

"We will negotiate in good faith with all the parties," he said, adding he will try to get the best price for his customers, as well as buying an appropriate amount of power.

Delmarva has long argued it doesn't need to lock its customers into buying power from a new in-state source.

Stockbridge noted that Delmarva's residential and small-business customers will bear the brunt of the costs for the new power plants. He said he hoped to find a way to spread any cost increases over all of Delaware's power customers.

Bluewater officials insist ratepayers will save money over the long term with wind power.

Two weeks ago, Gov. Ruth Ann Minner appeared lukewarm on wind and said NRG's coal gasification proposal could still have a role. But in the end, she didn't stop the wind-natural gas "hybrid" proposal from moving forward. Two of the agencies that signed on are under her jurisdiction: the Office of Management and Budget and DNREC.

The fourth agency, Controller General Russell Larson, reports to the legislative leadership. At Larson's request, the agencies deleted a line in the order that would have allowed the wind farm to stand on its own, without a natural gas backup.

But Bluewater Wind officials worried such a change could mean that if negotiations for a backup facility break down, it would stall the wind farm proposal. Agency heads agreed to revisit alternative solutions if negotiations end in stalemate.

All four agencies must approve any agreement.

"It's a very important day," said Bluewater Wind spokesman Jim Lanard.

Bluewater hopes to start building the wind farm in two years, after further environmental studies and the necessary permits are acquired. Construction is expected to take several years.

Jeremy Firestone, University of Delaware assistant professor of marine policy, said state leaders should be commended.

"Delaware is hopefully the bellwether for the nation. This hopefully heralds the switch from fossil fuels to renewables," he said.

Firestone said it made sense to build any backup plant at NRG's Indian River facility, because it's already an industrial site in Sussex County.

After the meeting, wind power advocate Lisa Pertzoff of the League of Women Voters shared her delight.

"I'm just so relieved it's going forward," she said. "I feel like I've been reading a giant thriller."
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i think that a cool idea first in the US. now delaware will get to be on t.v again, we're never on t.v for anything good.
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The movie "Fight Club" takes place in delaware.

And we were the home of some super secret goverment agency in a tv spy show... "The Imposter"? the guy who could learn to do anything, be a doctor, a racecar driver, etc.

the windmills should be good for b-reel for the news and tv shows.
we should also get an eppisode or two of "Mega Machines" and "Dirty Jobs"
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i heard the city in fight club is wilmington, but i dont think they ever filmed any of it actually here?

but yea speaking of the cable shows we could even get on extreme engineering
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no filming here that I know of, and they don't actually say wilmington in the movie, but they do talk about going to clamont, marcus hook and dover to recruit new members/ check up on clubs there.
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someone once posted on here or SSC that the banks here wouldnt let the film makers shoot here because it would give us a bad name? lol thats what i heard i dont know if its true
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