Ocean City 2050 announces Wonderland site winners
Multi-use entertainment site, capital-raising to replace amusement park OCEAN CITY — The advocacy group doesn’t have any claim to the site, but it does want city officials to know it has ideas about what should replace the former Wonderland Pier amusement park — and it’s not a luxury hotel. The group Ocean City 2050 on […]
Ocean City’s Carnival By The Sea
With Wonderland Pier closed, ideas to attract people range from rotating carnivals to music shows, movie nights and a council dunk tank OCEAN CITY — With the Wonderland Pier amusement park closed, the group Friends of OCNJ History & Culture has been cultivating ideas to attract visitors to that end of the boardwalk. Proposals range from […]
Mita: I’d sell if I can’t build the hotel
Defends Wonderland owner, hears critics, supporters at Tabernacle presentation OCEAN CITY — During a testy exchange with a resident who kept interrupting and challenging him during last week’s public presentation at the Ocean City Tabernacle, developer Eustace Mita said he would sell the Wonderland Pier amusement park site if his proposed hotel project were denied. […]
Gillian: I won’t benefit from hotel; process to replace Wonderland will be transparent
OCEAN CITY — Mayor Jay Gillian assured the public that he would not be benefiting from anything that will replace Wonderland Pier amusement park, that Eustace Mita’s hotel proposal faces a long road before it could be approved, and that he hates to see how the issue is dividing Ocean City. Gillian and his late father […]
Redevelopment designation for Icona at Wonderland project a lengthy process
Developer Eustace Mita has not made a formal proposal to any regulation body in Ocean City OCEAN CITY – Eustace Mita’s Icona at Wonderland hotel-retail complex project faces numerous hurdles before it could become a reality. The luxury developer from Ocean City who is behind the high-end Icona Resorts and Achristavest Fine Home Buildings has […]
Public reacts to Icona at Wonderland proposal
Some support hotel project, others heavily criticize it Editor’s note: See related story on redevelopment zones. OCEAN CITY — Some longtime residents showed support for Eustace Mita’s plans to build a 252-room hotel and retail complex at the site of the former Wonderland Pier amusement park, but the developer also took heavy criticism and traded a […]
Ocean City Council members have mixed reaction to Icona at Wonderland, citing size, parking, redevelopment zone
Editor’s note: The Sentinel contacted all seven members of Ocean City Council last week to get their reaction to a plan to replace Wonderland Pier with a 252-room hotel. The proposal includes deeming the site an area in need of redevelopment, which would require City Council approval. OCEAN CITY — The seven members of Ocean […]
Mita presents Icona at Wonderland
Hotel has 252 rooms, carousel, Ferris wheel, would pay $1 mil in taxes OCEAN CITY — Eustace Mita has proposed a 252-room hotel. that he believes will stand the test of time, to replace the Wonderland Pier amusement park, which closed in October after nearly 60 years in business at Sixth Street and Boardwalk. Mita, who […]