Egg Harbor City wants houses built on 200 acres of undeveloped land

Vincent Jackson

EGG HARBOR CITY — The city wants to do its part to add more housing to address a persistent shortage locally and in the country.

City officials and the Atlantic County Economic Alliance want to transform about 200 acres of land near Cedar Creek High School into a new single-family and mixed-use housing community.

“It’s basically all trees. Cedar Creek sits in the middle of all of it,” Mayor Lisa

Jiampetti said.

Three companies have responded to a request for qualifications from the city, she said.

“We want to get as much as we can get. We may be open to two” developers, Jiampetti said.

An Open Public Records Act request was submitted for the names of the three companies that responded to the request for qualifications.

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