Former Mayor Suggests Eminent Domain for Beach Theatre
“Former mayor and councilman Jerry Gaffney suggested the municipality use its power of eminent domain to obtain the former Beach Theatre property he described as an eyesore in a highly valued location of the city.
“Are you going to go forward and use your authority possibly for eminent domain or something along those lines or is it going to sit as it is today with nothing being done to it?” he asked City Council at a Sept. 4 meeting.
Gaffney said the city had the authority to take the Beach Theatre property at a “fair market price, develop it, subdivide it, do something with it,” even make it into a parking lot.”
Fitcher, Jack. Cape May County Herald 5 September 2012.