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Former BJ’s on the Water owners Billy and Madlyn Carder wave to the crowd as the grand marshals of last Saturday’s Ocean City St. Patrick’s Day parade. See story and more pictures on page 22.
By Mallory Panuska Staff Writer (March 17, 2023) An Ocean City restaurant owner’s successful composting efforts are continuing and will include more local restaurants following approval of a new contract Tuesday. Garvey Heiderman, the owner of The Hobbit restaurant on 81st Street, also serves as the director of compost operations for Go Green OC, a company that officially launched food waste collection efforts in summer 2021. At a City Council work session Tuesday, Heiderman asked for approval to re-up a transportation, collection and waste disposal agreement See COUNCIL Page 3
layout Oceans Calling reveals lineup Festival idea out of tune Mayer, Johnson, Morissette, Lumineers headline bill for three-day music festival
By Mallory Panuska Staff Writer (March 17, 2023) The organizers of Ocean City’s upcoming Oceans Calling Festival are rebounding strong from last year’s cancelation with headliners Jack Johnson, Alanis Morissette, John Mayer and The Lumineers anchoring a lineup flush with other big-name artists. “There’s a little bit of everything for everyone,” Promoter C3 Presents President Tim Sweetwood said after announcing the full lineup live on Ocean 98 radio Tuesday.
Along with the headliners, bands and singers including Third Eye Blind, Incubus, Weezer, Sheryl Crow, The Wallflowers, Gin Blossoms, Grace Potter, Dirty Heads, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Noah Kahan, Jimmy Eat World, Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, O.A.R. and more are set to perform throughout the three-day music event set Sept. 29 through Oct. 1 on the inlet and beach downtown. The festival will also feature vendors for souvenirs, drinks and food, including presentations by acclaimed chefs Robert Irvine and Amanda Freitag, with Jason Biggs of “American Pie” movie franchise fame serving as host. See MILLIONS Page 8
with merchants Plan to include Boardwalk section sparks concerns By Mallory Panuska Staff Writer (March 17, 2023) The promoters of this year’s Oceans Calling Festival are floating a new footprint that could include dozens of southern Boardwalk businesses But proposed conditions, including requiring merchants to use a point-of-sale system and turn over a portion of their profits, do not sit well with many of the owners, some of See BOARDWALK Page 4
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ATLANTIC DENTAL COSMETIC & FAMILY DENTISTRY A dumpster sits outside The Hobbit restaurant on 81st Street. Owner Garvey Heiderman runs a town-wide composting program that City Council members re-upped for another year at a work session Tuesday.
Council backs another year of composting food waste Continued from Page 1 with the city to run the program for another year. In response, council members voted 6-1, with Councilman Frank Knight absent, to approve the request. Public works Director Hal Adkins said the current agreement expires at the end of the month. The new contract will extend until March 30, 2024, and will add several new restaurants to the list. Through the agreement, food waste is collected, weighed at 65th Street, and Heiderman’s company is compensated on a per-ton basis for diverting it away from the overall stream of garbage the city ships to Pennsylvania for incineration. According to a staff report, 30
restaurants have been confirmed with another five pending. Heiderman said the program has been successful, with about 115 tons of food waste collected for composting over the last contract period. He said he expects more than 300 tons during the coming year. “In four years of doing this, some of it was official some of it was unofficial before we had the agreement with you guys … we’ve had no complaints at the compost facility, from neighbors, the county or the state,” Heiderman said to council members Tuesday. He added that Maryland Department of the Environment officials have also been out to the site and given positive feedback.
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Boardwalk merchants object to concert plan Continued from Page 1 whom met this week with city officials to air their concerns. “There was a lot of questions asked,” Ocean City Director of Tourism and Business Development Tom Perlozzo said of a meeting held Wednesday morning with city staff and a cross-section of downtown business owners who operate near the festival’s designated location on the beach and inlet. “There were concerns by the Boardwalk businesses, and unfortunately [festival promoter C3 Presents] wasn’t at the meeting,” Perlozzo continued. “What the next steps are going to be are to get C3 in front of the Boardwalk businesses. We have a list of questions, we’re going to find those answers, let C3 battle it out.” The promoters of Oceans Calling,
set Sept. 29 through Oct. 1, recently proposed expanding the festival’s footprint by fencing in Boardwalk businesses from below South Division to North Division streets. “So rather having a fence run down one side it would allow people to flow in,” Perlozzo explained. “If there’s 50,000 people coming in, we want them to be able to take advantage of the Boardwalk businesses. So that was kind of the thoughts behind it.” As part of the proposal , the promoters want merchants to use the concert’s point-of-sale system instead of their own and collect a percentage of their profits. The plan struck a chord with many of the owners, prompting them to formulate the list of questions and concerns presented at Wednesday’s
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last year’s festival – which was canmeeting. According to the list, the mer- celed because of bad weather — but chants collectively do not want a city staff turned it down. Perlozzo point-of-sale system controlling their said they changed their minds for this transactions, nor do they want the year, though, after seeing how everyfestival promoters to collect a per- thing was going to play out last year centage of their profits. They also said with liquor control laws and the they do not want the festival to dic- strain on police, fire and emergency personnel with the Boardwalk busitate their hours. The owners want the downtown nesses outside the event footprint. City officials intricately planned side streets and lots to remain open and available for parking and deliver- the details for Oceans Calling last ies at least a day before the festival, year, which was scheduled for the more entrances and exits, security same weekend and set to incorporate outside the footprint after the event, three stages in the inlet parking lot and to delay the installation of barri- and on the nearby beach. Fencing was slated for setup ers until the last around the area to possible moment. “Basically, they’re going to [tell ensure only paid atOcean City Deentered. velopment Corpo- the promoter]... we would really tendees ration Board like to include the Boardwalk The fenced-in area President Kevin businesses but no point of sale, was also going to include vendor tents Gibbs, who owns or no percentage of sales.” selling food, drinks and operates the OCDC Board President and souvenirs. Dough Roller on Kevin Gibbs This year’s South Division Oceans Calling FesStreet, attended Wednesday’s meeting and said he tival is expected to attract an estithought it went well in terms of staff mated 35,000 to 50,000 people per listening to the merchants’ concerns. day to the venue. The promoters announced Tues“Basically, they’re going to take everything we said and try to take it day that the headliners for the festival back to the promoter to say … we will be Jack Johnson and Alanis would really like to include the Morissette on Friday, John Mayer on Boardwalk businesses but no point of Saturday and The Lumineers closing sale or no percentage of sales,” he out the event Sunday. Other bands and artists set to persaid. “Basically, work out some of the logistics and liability. Because there’s form throughout the three-day event include Third Eye Blind, Incubus, some liability issues there, too.” He added that city staff, and now Weezer, Sheryl Crow, The WallflowC3 officials, should be well aware that ers, Gin Blossoms, Grace Potter, the point of sale is “a major problem” Dirty Heads, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Noah Kahan, Jimmy for the business owners. Perlozzo said the Boardwalk mer- Eat World, Ben Harper & The Innochants, if they can work out their con- cent Criminals, O.A.R. and many cerns with the promoters, will have to more. Tickets were set to go on pre-sale be all in if they want to be part of the Thursday for those who signed up footprint. “I think C3 will be reasonable with early. Perlozzo and the promoters urged what they want to do," Perlozzo said. “… It’s really up the individual busi- people who wanted tickets to log on nesses and they’re going to have to and get them fast, as they expected come to a consensus. Because we’re the festival to sell out quickly with the number of popular, big-name pernot going to fence around them.” He added that the promoters formers in the lineup and last year’s floated the same footprint concept for cancelation still looming.
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Request to abandon air rights at Majestic By Mallory Panuska Staff Writer (March 17, 2023) Plans to renovate and revitalize the historic Majestic Hotel on the Ocean City Boardwalk are advancing, with City Council members’ approval this week of a request to seek air rights above a city-owned alley. Resort business owner Avraham Sibony bought the property at 613 Atlantic Ave. between Sixth and Seventh streets last March from the local Savage family, who owned and operated it for most of its nearly 100 years of existence. Since the purchase, Sibony has floated plans to spruce it up and add a fitness center, hospitality suite and arcade above a currently undeveloped, 16foot alley between the two existing buildings. Local Attorney Joe Moore, who attended a work session Tuesday on Sibony’s behalf, asked council members to advance a request for the city to abandon the air rights above the alley. “We’re mindful of the fact that we have an iconic property and therefore want to develop it in the best way possible for the benefit of the citizens of the town,” Moore told the council. He added that the plans to put amenities above the alley, not rooms, does not increase the density of the project. He also contended that the plans, which include adding 4 feet to
the alleyway, would increase the safety of the guests because it would allow them to access amenities through a breezeway. Before Moore made his case, former Councilman Vince Gisreal spoke out against the request. Gisreal said he voted during his time on council in 2002 against requests from the owners of the Bonita Beach on 81st Street and Breakers Hotel on 33rd for the city to abandon air rights for redevelopment, and reiterated the same concerns he had then. “I’m concerned about the amount of density, particularly in the downtown area,” he said. Gisreal has also spoken against a recent similar request from the developers of a planned Margaritaville resort between 13th and 14th along Baltimore Avenue. Staff members used the Bonita Beach and Breakers air rights approvals as examples in a recommendation for council members to vote in favor of the Majestic’s request. Council members ultimately voted 41, with Councilman Will Savage recusing himself and Councilmen Peter Buas and Frank Knight absent, to direct staff to create an ordinance and set a public hearing for the proposed abandonment for the Majestic. City Solicitor Heather Stansbury said
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A rendering shows plans for an alley that runs between the Majestic Hotel on the Boardwalk. The new owners of the hotel between Sixth and Seventh streets asked for the city to abandon air rights over the alley to develop an arcade, hospitality suite and fitness center as part of planned renovations.
staff will also determine whether the alley is needed for public use. The action, if approved, would allow Sibony to build over the alley, likely with a set of conditions similar to those placed on the Bonita Beach and Breakers. They include granting more public access to the area, providing a mini-
mum 14-foot vertical clearance for emergency vehicles, and improving and maintaining the alley to city specifications. The Majestic Hotel was built in 1925 and taken over by the Savage family in 1945. They owned and operated it until the sale earlier this year.
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