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Mayor Small Scrambles as Boardwalk Crime Hurts Atlantic City Rebound

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For years, Atlantic City Boardwalk merchants have pleaded for more police presence. Rising crime and violence are hurting business and tourism say business owners. Boardwalk merchants say CRDA, Casino Reinvestment Development Authority and Atlantic City officials like Marty Small and George Tibbitt haven’t done enough. We want safety, says the Atlantic City Merchants Association. ‘We […]

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Mayor Fails at Removing Young from Atlantic City Planning Board

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Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small promised to remove Steve Young from the planning board and the Citizen’s Advisory Board. So far, Small has failed dramatically at both. To remove Young, a BLM activist, from the Atlantic City Planning Board, requires a special City Council meeting. What’s stopping Small? A slap in the face of Atlantic

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CRDA Buys Strip Club & Atlantic City Loses Another Taxpayer to Land-Banking.

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The Casino Reinvestment Development Authority (CRDA) approved a purchase of a strip club on Pacific Avenue. The CRDA Board authorized a $1.3 million fund to buy Delilah’s Den at 2405 Pacific Avenue, right across street from Boardwalk Hall. Under cover of the Covid chaos, CRDA quietly signed off. Very few members of the public attend

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Blatstein Wants $50+ Million in Tax Credits for Showboat Atlantic City Waterpark

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Want a cool waterpark next to Showboat Hotel on the Atlantic City Boardwalk? Just give developer Bart Blatstein $50 mil in tax credits over the next 20 years. Blatstein also wants tax reductions on construction materials. Never hurts to ask. Blatstein was recently granted land approval from NJ CRDA, New Jersey Casino Reinvestment Development Authority

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CRDA Downgraded, Casino Outlook Remains Negative in Atlantic City

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Fitch Ratings has downgraded the rating on approximately $215 million of Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, New Jersey (CRDA or the authority) luxury tax revenue bonds, series 2014 to ‘BBB’ from ‘BBB+’. The Rating Outlook remains Negative. Luxury tax receipts consist of a 9% hotel room tax, 9% tax on ticket purchases at theaters, exhibitions and

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Lupo & Casino Execs Rip CRDA & City Hall for Atlantic City Woes

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Atlantic City casino operators are fed up. Top execs like Hard Rock’s Joe Lupo loudly voicing displeasure with CRDA and those in charge. Publicly blaming both for allowing Atlantic City to waste a 40 year head start in the casino business. Some Atlantic City casino execs are so pissed, they’re bankrolling a move to clean

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Crazy CRDA Rules for Tourism District Property Owners

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CRDA Zoning Czar, Lance Landgraf, embracing the foolish, Atlantic City Tourism District zoning rules? It’s up to him to enforce? Yikes. That spells trouble for those looking to live in a single family home. Triplexs are mandatory if one wants to build or redevelop their single family property inside the CRDA controlled Tourism District. VIDEO:

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Ocean City’s Tolson Tapped For #2 CRDA Job.

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Richard Tolson is the new vice chair of the CRDA, Casino Reinvestment Development Authority. That’s a lofty position that’s only eclipsed by CRDA Chairman, Robert Mulchahy. Tolson is from Ocean City. He’s the director of the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers of New Jersey. Observers have questioned the appointment of Tolson. The CRDA

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How Landgraf and CRDA Play Dirty With Some Atlantic City Developers

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This is not the first time ACprimetime received reports of CRDA Zoning Czar, Lance Landgraf, using bully tactics against small investors in Atlantic City. Watch video > In the video above, developer Sean Reardon addresses the CRDA board. He explains to CRDA board members that he’s being unfairly fined for his vacant lot in the

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Why Miss America Needs to Escape Atlantic City in Order to Survive

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For Miss America to make a real comeback, it must escape the dysfunction that is Atlantic City. Never thought we’d be saying that. But after closely following, and attending the past 4 years of MISS A in Atlantic City, we see nothing that boosts our confidence in this once majestic event thriving in this South

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