(Atlantic) The Atlantic City Council voted to allow a new building at 60365 Glacier Road to hook up to the City’s sanitary sewer line to accommodate new business at the site.
This is a commercial property located outside of the northwestern City limits. A new business signed a lease for the new building that will create eight to ten jobs at that location.
Councilperson Kathy Somers, the Chair of the Personnel and Finance Committee, says CADCO worked for years and years to buy property in this area for development. They didn’t need to necessarily offer incentives because it was outside the city limits. The incentive would be the businesses wouldn’t be paying city property taxes.
Councilman Pat McCurdy says in 2007, the County put the sewer and water in that area and paid nearly $600,000; the city didn’t pay a penny for it.
Atlantic City Councilperson Kathy Somers says this is a huge achievement for Atlantic Community Development to finally get a business to locate there.
Somers says this business or prospective businesses may not be located within the City limits, but they will employ ten to 12 people,
Somers says it is a win-win, and this has been the intent of the Atlantic Community Development Group for many years to get businesses there with the option to connect to the sewer line.
Don Sonntag, of Sonntag, Inc., owners of the building, says the company leasing the building will employ eight to ten employees. Two more prospects may rent space in that same facility, not to mention another building going up near that same location.
The Council passed the measure 6-1. Kathy Somers, Grace Garrett, Linda Hartkoph, Pat McCurdy, and Jim Behrens voted in favor of the hook-up. Dick Casady voted no.
