Development plans will include a 180-room hotel and hundreds of condominium units, as well as extensive retail space
From the A.C. Press
UPPER TOWNSHIP — Other than the trill of redwing blackbirds and the call of innumerable frogs announcing the spring, the site of the former B.L. England power plant on the banks of the Great Egg Harbor Bay is deeply quiet.
For now.
In the coming weeks, the township will receive a formal proposal for extensive residential and commercial development for the sprawling site, and the developers plan to submit permit requests under the state Coastal Area Facility Review Act, which governs development near the waterfront.
Those plans will include a 180-room hotel and hundreds of condominium units, as well as extensive retail space.
The project is at least a year away from the start of construction, and completion could take about a decade.
For decades, the B.L. England power plant used coal and diesel to generate electricity at the site and served as a landmark that could be seen for miles. Operations ceased in 2019.
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