New Motorsports Race track in Atlantic City?
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ATLANTIC CITY City Council passed a resolution Wednesday evening encouraging the city and state to further vet a proposed $2.7 billion development of Bader Field into a “world class motor destination” with race course, housing and mixed use buildings.
Daniel Gallagher, an Atlantic City attorney, presented the plans by Deem Enterprises that include a 2.44-mile Formula One race course, “car centric” townhouses and condos overlooking the intracoastal waterway, affordable housing and renewable energy amenities.
Gallagher was the attorney for Penn National Gaming in 2008 when it offered the city $800 million to buy Bader Field and build several casinos there. That plan never came to be after other casino operators threatened to pull out of the city if gaming was developed for the site. Plans to build a single casino on a 23-acre parcel of the property were scrapped because of the 2008 financial collapse.
Bader Field is a 150-acre former historic airport and the last piece of large, undeveloped land in the city. The past year it has mainly been used for large-scale food distributions for those left unemployed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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