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Post by ilovewildwood on Oct 9, 2006 12:31:26 GMT -5
I used to live in Maryland (near DC) and remember when all those high-rises were built in Ocean City, Maryland.....and when a lot of them were auctioned off because developers got greedy and tore down too many cute, affordable motels. Sound familiar? Wildwood will never be a "big" convention town.....but it can be a unique one. Remember......the doo wop motels were considered important enough to be put on the "endangered list" of the National Historic Preservation Trust (or some combination of those four words....I usually get it wrong)....if Wildwood loses its doo wop identity it'll be just another beach town....and it'll be too late to fix it. The Shalimar and the Carribean are examples of how an older property can still be viable. If there were more restaurants, etc. open year-round the Carribean sure looks more appealing than the Days Inn....and would give the middle-class families who've supported Wildwood for generations places to stay. Also, if Wildwood becomes a resort of condos and high-rise motels with all the amenities in-house it will hurt a lot of the local businesses. And a town with unique restaurants (as opposed to a Burger King or Olive Garden on every corner) is another selling point. Just my opinion. And I'm not trying to sound anti-development...my dad was a developer. I'm anti-OVERdevelopment.
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Post by Doo Wop Mike D on Oct 9, 2006 12:46:09 GMT -5
ilovewildwood-
Well said.
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Post by thelastresort on Oct 9, 2006 14:11:27 GMT -5
ditto, especially the part about being anti-OVERdevelopment.
I suppose the reason I started this string is that, in my opinion, the current situation along Ocean ave is a detriment to the efforts being made with respect to the convention center and renewal efforts etc. I also would not want to see huge high rises, which is why I am not all that jazzed about that design they plan for the Oceanic/Days site. But a few well done, well manicured 10-12 story structures, doo wop or not, laid out properly along Ocean would do wonders for those few blocks.
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Post by scca28 on Oct 9, 2006 15:30:38 GMT -5
Honestly I hope they just don't get built. I despise the claustrphobic feeling they give off. The "small" condos farther down in the Crest that make the Royal Hawaiin look small give off this feeling, I don't even want to imagine what 15+ floors would make the area feel like. I know it's not the same thing, but here is an old postcard from Atlantic City. The tall buildings back then gave me the feeling I was in Center City Philadelphia, not at a seashore resort. I like the sunny, open sky feeling you get with good ol' two story motels.
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Post by nance on Oct 9, 2006 19:42:12 GMT -5
But when you build "up"; what a space-saver! Holding alot more guests.
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