Three years ago: Ventnor firm awarded contract to build hotel near the Atlantic City International Airport
With the NextGen project
and expansion at the Atlantic City International Airport looming the
need for a hotel at the Airport Circle in Egg Harbor Township was a high
priority.
The South Jersey
Transportation Authority, which operates the airport, awarded the
contract for a new hotel near the facility Dec. 15, 2009, to Argus
Development Corporation Inc. of Ventnor.
The plans for the hotel
included 135 rooms, among which would be some extended-stay suites;
about 6,000 square feet of conference space; 22,000 square feet of
retail space; and possibly a restaurant on 13.5 acres at Airport Circle
near Delilah and Tilton roads.
Plans called for
construction to begin in the middle of this year, but owner Lester Argus
said the project is on hold until the plans to reconfigure the traffic
circle are finalized.
Argus said the problem is
the stalled plans to connect Amelia Earhardt Drive with the Atlantic
City Expressway over the circle. The South Jersey Transportation
Authority decided last week to split the project into two phases to
expedite the process.
Argus said the firm will not move forward until that is resolved.
“We don’t have an answer
on what they want to do with that,” he said. “We have our plans for the
property but we need to know where the access will be. It threw our
plans in a holding pattern.”
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