An early detail of the OG North End. Library of Congress map of OG and A. Park 1881. No North End hotel. There is the Ross bathing pavilion located there, by the ocean. The North End is otherwise shown as a barren lot. Click to enlarge.
This quote is from a “New Jersey Corporate Real Estate News Blog”. Title of this article is “Town Trustees OK Redevelopment Plans.”
The date is Thursday, March 30, 2006.
It says, “The trustees of the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association have approved a plan by Wesley Atlantic Village Enterprises LLC, or WAVE, to redevelop the site with a combination of a hotel, condos, retail, and other commercial space, a parking structure ad a pool. Now, the site I patently ready for redevelopment.”
According to Scott Rasmussen, president of OGCMA, “The approval culminates a several-year process during which some 50 developers showed interest in the project.”
“The project still has a way to go before ground can be broken, according to William Gannon, a local attorney who heads the WAVE partnership.”
“In the case of the WAVE partnership, the association has agreed to a 99 year renewable lease, the terms of which were not disclosed”
Gannon said that the “plans are still in the early stages, and the developer and local officials both say its design will be consistent with the community’s Victorian flavor.”
Editor: What the CMA said above: “50 developers showed interest in the project.” This sounds like nonsense…where is the evidence that shows WAVE competing with other developers?
Editor’s note 1/25/2025: Here is a Blogfinger link about the earliest plans for the North End of OG:
Early CMA plans for the North End of Ocean Grove
From Guys and Dolls. “Sue Me.”