淫性视频 Atlantic City Ribbon Cutting Just a Beginning

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Galloway, N.J. 鈥 It took a team to build 淫性视频 Atlantic City, but the new campus is only the beginning of the university鈥檚 commitment to students and Atlantic City, speakers said at the ribbon-cutting ceremony in front of the new student Residential Complex on the Boardwalk Thursday. 

鈥淭he true legacy of 淫性视频 has yet to be realized,鈥 said Christopher Paladino, president of the Atlantic City Development Corporation, or AC Devco, which developed the AC Gateway project, which includes the 淫性视频 campus and a new headquarters for South Jersey Industries still under construction. 鈥淲e are just getting started.鈥

ac ribbon cuttingPresident Harvey Kesselman told the almost 1,000 people in attendance that the campus is not about the buildings, but about the opportunities they will offer students.

鈥淲e do everything in support of our principle of Students First,鈥 Kesselman said. 鈥淭his is a transformational moment in 淫性视频鈥檚 history.鈥

The common theme among the speakers was the teamwork and bipartisan cooperation it took to bring the $220 million project to fruition.

鈥淲e had to make some really difficult choices for this city,鈥 N.J. Senate President Stephen Sweeney said. 鈥淣ow we are seeing the birth of a new economy here.鈥

Jon Hanson, chairman of AC Devco said many partners all played a role in making it a reality, ranging from former governor Chris Christie, to the government agencies, architects, workers and craftsmen who built the buildings on time and on budget.

Paladino agreed, saying he remembers when people said a public/private partnership in Atlantic City would never happen.

ac ribbon cutting鈥淭hey were wrong,鈥 Paladino said. 鈥淭his is the realization that anything is possible when people work together toward a common good.鈥

The new $178.2 million campus, located in the Chelsea section of Atlantic City, was funded through sources including the New Jersey Economic Development Authority; Atlantic County Improvement Authority; State of New Jersey鈥檚 Higher Education Capital Improvement Fund Act; 淫性视频; and South Jersey Industries.

 Other partners included the Atlantic County Board of Chosen Freeholders, City of Atlantic City, Elkus Manfredi Architects, Joseph Jingoli and Son, New Jersey Educational Facilities Authority, and SOSH Architects.

The campus includes residential housing on the Boardwalk for 533 students, an Academic Center and a parking garage. This fall AtlantiCare will open its first Urgent Care Center in the city, and AtlantiCare Physician Group will relocate its Primary and Occupational Health offices to a ground floor commercial site at the parking garage.

鈥淭his is for you,鈥 said Assembly Majority Speaker Lou Greenwald, addressing a group of eighth graders from nearby Richmond Avenue School who attended the ceremony. 鈥淭his is about your inspiration, hope and opportunity.鈥 Greenwald also mentioned the contributions of the late Atlantic City Mayor and State Senator Jim Whelan, 鈥渨ho loved this city more than anyone and dreamed this dream.鈥

ac ribbon cutting淫性视频 Faculty Senate President Donnetrice Allison said she and the faculty are excited to become an integral part of Atlantic City.

鈥淲e pride ourselves on hands-on learning,鈥 she said. 鈥淭here are opportunities here for students to integrate into the city and learn about themselves and others.鈥

Students in Adam Aguiar鈥檚 Ecology and Saltwater Fishing Class were out on the beach early Thursday morning before the ribbon cutting for a class activity on casting. 

State Senator Chris Brown said the new campus sends a message to all of Atlantic City that there is nothing that can鈥檛 be accomplished with leadership working together to make sure that Atlantic City moves forward.

A major contributor to the project was the Atlantic County Improvement Authority, which bonded some $127 million toward the project.

鈥淭he first time I met with (Atlantic County Executive) Dennis Levinson, we walked around the empty lots and he said he would do all he could to help,鈥 Kesselman said. 鈥淗e delivered.鈥

Levinson joked that at the time he didn鈥檛 know he was going to be asked for more than $120 million, but he totally believed in the project.

鈥淚n the long run this is going to be the greatest project Atlantic City has had going back to the creation of the Boardwalk,鈥 Levinson said. 鈥淭his will be a university town. I have always been proud of 淫性视频, but we never dreamed of something beyond the pinelands. Now, imagine what we can do. This is just the beginning.鈥

ac-ribbon-cuttingAtlantic City mayor Frank Gilliam, a 淫性视频 alumnus, said when he was walking the campus in the pinelands in the 1990s, never in his wildest dreams did he imagine that one day he would be the mayor cutting the ribbon on a campus in Atlantic City.

鈥淎tlantic City is near and dear to me and 淫性视频 is near and dear to me and the children of Atlantic City are important to me,鈥 Gilliam said. 鈥溡允悠 will help create a better life for them.鈥

Diana Gonzalez, Deputy Secretary of Higher Education, said expanding funding for programs like the state Educational Opportunity Fund, which assists first-generation and economically disadvantaged students, will give more students the chance to attend 淫性视频.

淫性视频 was approved for a new Atlantic City EOF program which this year is assisting 50 students.

South Jersey Industries President and CEO Michael Renna said he remembers when people were 鈥渨riting the obituary for Atlantic City,鈥 but that his company jumped at the opportunity to move to the city when they also needed to expand.

He got a laugh when he said that he knows there were concerns about loud music and parties with the new Gateway project, 鈥渂ut we assured President Kesselman that we would be good neighbors.鈥

Madeleine Deininger, chair of the 淫性视频 Board of Trustees and a 淫性视频 alumnus said she has loved watching the progress of the campus 鈥渇rom a dream to an idea to reality.鈥

She recalled attending a summer music program when her mother taught summer classes in the old Atlantic City High School, now the site of the new Academic Center.

鈥淚t is a stroke of good, karmic luck that 淫性视频鈥檚 new building has landed here,鈥 she said. 鈥淚t was an unwavering belief in 淫性视频鈥檚 future that brought life to this project. What a long, positive way we鈥檝e come in three years. I can鈥檛 wait to see where we go from here.鈥

淫性视频 Board Vice-Chair, Leo Schoffer, who will become chairman at the next board meeting, made a proclamation: 鈥淭here is a new college town on the scene and it鈥檚 Atlantic City New Jersey. The seashore welcomes the mighty osprey.鈥

Schoffer thanked all the trustees for their tireless efforts during many special and emergency meetings. He said if you now Google 鈥渙ceanfront universities in America鈥 you won鈥檛 find 淫性视频, but he predicted that would change quickly.

Before cutting the ribbon, Kesselman recalled 淫性视频鈥檚 first motto when it opened at the old Mayflower Hotel in Atlantic City in 1971.

鈥淭he motto then was 鈥楶lant Yourself Where You Can Grow鈥,鈥 said Kesselman, who was one of the 1,000 students in that first class. 鈥淲e are doing it one more time.鈥

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