Project still on amid ‘tragic’ loss
A Margaritaville resort planned for downtown Ocean City is still on, but the project experienced a major loss last week with the unexpected death of the point person for the development company.
According to various national news reports, Tim Kinsley, 57, and his brother, Jon Kinsley, 59, were killed in an avalanche while heli-skiing on Jan. 23 in British Columbia, Canada.
Tim Kinsley, the president of Pennsylvania-based Kinsley Properties, was the main contact for the 13-story, 265-room Margaritaville hotel and resort slated for the former Phillips Beach Plaza Hotel property between 13th and 14th streets.
“Tim, he was primarily responsible. It was his company, it’s his project. He’s the one that passed away in the skiing accident in British Columbia,” local attorney Hugh Cropper, who represents the developers, said Monday.
Cropper added that he has been in touch with other company officials and said that they plan to “move forward on the exact same path” for Margaritaville in Ocean City in the wake of the brothers’ death.