Vol. 5, No. 6, June 2008
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City to Developers: ‘Pass GO’
The map of Atlantic City, made world-famous by the board game Monopoly, is due for some rearranging. Last month City Council approved a plan to relocate the 86-year-old World War I monument and the historic Knife & Fork restaurant to make way for a new luxury casino project spearheaded by developers Curtis Bashaw and Wally Barr.
The tentatively named Atlantic Beach Resort & Casino will feature a 2,000-room hotel tower, 210,000 square feet of gaming space, 350,000 square feet of retail, dining and entertainment, and 150,000 square feet of convention space.
Barr is the former CEO of Caesars Entertainment. Bashaw is a Cape May hotelier and former executive director of the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority. (See his interview with Casino Connection’s Frank Legato on page 16.) According to the plan, the monument will be moved piece by piece to nearby Veterans Park. The Knife & Fork, built in 1912, famous for its Flemish architecture and crossed utensils, will be moved from its corner at the city’s gateway to a lot one block away.
