Southeast Inlet Development Plan
Atlantic City, New Jersey
Atlantic City has reached the tipping point where a robust recovery based on a casino driven economy is no longer achievable. The City's comparative advantage in the next phase of its evolution is to be achieved in its development as a more diverse destination resort with strong entertainment, retail components in addition to gaming. Revel Atlantic City is a 6.2 million square foot beachfront entertainment resort on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City with 1,000 feet of Boardwalk frontage on a highly desirable beachfront location in abutting the Southeast Inlet. From the early days of Atlantic City until the 1940's, the Southeast Inlet was a solid working-class neighborhood buttressed by summer rentals and home to many off the city's workers. The neighborhood decline in the 1950s was rapid as Atlantic City suffered the decline of railroads and commercial centers, similar to that of other city centers in the U.S. in post World War II decades but there is now an opportunity to reverse that decline. In collaboration with the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority and Revel, Ken Greenberg worked with Gate Ventures and CBT Architects with on a plan for a new generation of mixed-use redevelopment in the Southeast Inlet including education, housing, retail, hospitality and recreation.