The beachfront is a wonderful amenity, and it is limited. There are not many areas to develop on the Atlantic Ocean an hour outside of Manhattan.
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She used to brag to me that she had beachfront property. Now her property's in the Gulf,
If we don't do it now, our chances of acquiring beachfront land for beachfront parks will be extremely limited if not curtailed. Right now, as you know, most of the mom-and-pop hotels are being purchased and being converted into luxury condominiums.
There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.
Most of the beachfront lots are taken up, and some have bought property on the bay side.
A boardwalk in spirit if not in composition it's concrete this path runs 3 miles past beachfront hotels, restaurants, stores, museums, bike-rental shops and street performers. Three stages present free summer entertainment, and two small museums belly up to the boardwalk the Atlantic Waterfowl Heritage Museum (decoys) and The Old Coast Guard Station with nifty 'tower cam' ocean views.
Fifty years ago, if a colony was attacked, they would go elsewhere, but we don't have that any more. With more beachfront homes and more people coming to the coast, there are no extra areas.
It is immensely worse as far as damage to the shoreline and beachfront retreat, ... goes across the islands very quickly.
What we see is a plan that has been working, ... It is turning the town around. People returned to the Long Branch beachfront in significant numbers this year for the first time in 30 or 40 years. We needed to get investment in the infrastructure of the area the city didn't have the money to pay for. Without a redevelopment zone the size we ended up declaring, it wasn't going to happen.