**CNB Tips and Snippets:Grandiose Development Plans for Gloucester City That Have Gone Nowhere; Et Cetera

THE WEST MARKET ST. REDEVELOPMENT– Any long time resident of Gloucester City will recall the numerous development studies that have been announced for the community by politicians since the 1980\’s. For example there was The Hollywood East Plan, followed by The King Street Corridor Plan, the 1995 Master Plan to redevelop Broadway, The Irish Theme Village, the Southport Development, and The Gloucester Point project just to mention a few. 

Hundreds of thousands of dollars if not millions have been spent over the years for consultant fees, architect designs and other related costs for these plans. The upper floor of the municipal building at Broadway and Monmouth Street is stacked to the ceiling with the remnants of drawings and paperwork gathering dust.

There is always a big fanfare surrounding the announcement of these grandiose ideas but for one reason or another these plans never make it off the drawing board.