Anybody hear that construction was stopped at Moore's? Heard they didn't have e'nuf presales sign ups and $$ went dry.
Also heard The Beach Club is going to be "Champagne Island Condos".
Just what we need!
Now all summer the Lighthouse District will be looking at pilings and will be w/o it's "signature" bar.
Great!!
Never believe rumors, Mic. I don't know what the slowness is with Moores but somebody is doing work there right now. Sales are slow all over the entire island but I think the belief is that all the investors are waiting to see how the JCOW misclassification scandal is going to play out. Once that is taken care of and people can feel like precautions have been taken so it won't happen again, then things will pick up.
Just because we have lost Moores, don't think that means the whole area is dead. Moores wasn't the only great place down there. The area is called Anglesea, not Moores' City.
The truth is that the place is absolutely booming with a lot of new construction going on. Moores is gone but the area seems to be going a little bit more "adult." That's the word an important individual in NW used recently to describe it. There are several clubs that are still packing them in: Westy's, Keenans, 2nd Street Annies, and others. Tony Suppa, the former owner of the Thunderbird Inn now owns the Anglesea Pub.
The story about the Beach House is that it was approved a while ago for a new club but since that approval, there have been changes and bigger improvements planned.
The application for the Beach House improvements at last night's Planning Board meeting was postponed for two more weeks at the request of the owners. Because the revised application will not come up for two more weeks, there are still a lot of unanswered questions.
However, the rumors are these:
I don't know how the place ties in yet with Champagne Island Resort other than the fact that Champagne's sign is posted on the wall of the Beach House, so that is probably going to be the location, Spruce and Olde New Jersey Avenue.
According to the sign, Champaign Island is going to be two stories covering a lot of area. The second floor ONLY is going to be condos with inside parking on the first floor - rear. The first floor - front - along NJ Avenue, however, is going to be commercial.
The RUMOR is that the owner(s) want to convert the Beach House - which is much older than most of the "New Anglesea," by the way, into a pretty classy open-air "Key West-style" nightclub.
IMO modernizing and upgrading the Wildwoods is a whole lot better than just tearing the place down and replacing everything with condos.
Second floor condos in NW are becoming all the rage as a way to get developers with big bucks to come in and modernize the place. They supposedly need the condo sales upstairs in order to return an attractive profit.
And that is Ok by me as long as they retain the tradition and the spirit of the original Wildwoods in the process.
The Beach House is still there, construction - or remodeling - won't start for a while yet.
There was a club there, there apparently will be a new, state of the art club there in the future. So as long as the area retains its flavor, I don't really care who is sleeping in the condos upstairs, do you?
Thom
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