An about million art project funded by the New Jersey Casino Reinvestment Development Authority on the site of the former Sands casino In Atlantic City has been dismantled and tuned into a parking lot.
The park was built in 2012 as part of a project by the authority and the Atlantic City Alliance—a casino-funded marketing arm for the city—as part of a project to beautify vacant lots in the city. The property, however, belongs to a family of real estate companies operating out of Fort Lee, New Jersey, and is adjacent to the site of a proposed 360-foot Polercoaster attraction proposed for the site, according to the Press of Atlantic City.
Authority Executive Director John Palmieri told the paper that the authority’s board of directors “authorized me to spend up to $150,000 to take the art and the earthwork down at the site at the request of the property owner so that they can make arrangements to prepare for a new development.”
The seven-acre park featured large, single-word signs – “Look”; “Becoming”; ”Imagine”- laid slanted among grassy mounds with a half-buried pirate ship as a centerpiece.
It was part of a larger $12 million project to place public art around the city, the Press reported.
