OCEAN CITY – Site plan approval will allow the development of a downtown lot to move forward.
Last week, the Ocean City Planning and Zoning Commission voted 4-3, with Commissioners Joe Wilson, Palmer Gillis and Joel Brous opposed, to approve the site plan for a luxury hotel at 700 S. Philadelphia Ave. The developer, Sarantis Properties Inc., has plans to construct an facility named KYMA Luxury Resort Hotel, which will feature 62 guest rooms, eight suites, an owner’s unit and a 3,700-square-foot restaurant, among other amenities.
“I think this destination resort hotel with its amenities is a great repurposing of this property,” Hugh Cropper, attorney for Sarantis Properties, said this week. “It’s a property that really needs to be developed.”
For decades, there have been several attempts to redevelop the old Holt’s Landing property, situated between Sunset Park and the Oceanic Fishing Pier. At one time, the site was proposed for a mixed-use development known as Jennieville. There were also plans for an eight-story condominium, but that project never came to fruition.
“The property was formerly developed by a bar and restaurant many years ago known as Holt’s Landing,” Cropper said. “That was demolished and since then there have been a number of projects proposed for the property.”
That’s right, do away with all the parking lots. The parking garage is a cure all. All the business’ workers as well as customers don’t want to walk several blocks to and from the parking garage. So stupid to lose the parking lots. Oh and does anybody have information on when Mill Street will be repaved and restriped for bicycle lanes. Seems like Waverly Drive is getting more than it’s share of attention.
Your comment is about Salisbury, and I don’t take issue with your observations.
But, the post was about Ocean City.
Having Mr. Gillis on their Planning & Zoning raises my eyebrow.
What’s Mill St got to do with Ocean City?
OC is taking a page out of DaBury and doing away with all the parking spaces and filling them up with apartments, except OCs apartment won’t be section 8 like DaBury.
with no place to park looks like a helicopter landing center is needed, where do they think people are going to park?