Harrah's Bayview Tower II Expansion
Atlantic City, New Jersey
Paulus, Sokolowski and Sartor (PS&S) was retained by Harrah's Entertainment, Inc., to provide structural, geotechnical, civil engineering design and construction phase services, environmental/land use permitting, land surveying and active methane venting system design for an ambitious expansion that will nearly double the size of the existing Harrah's Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
The $552 Million Bayview Tower II Project included the following elements:
- 47-story hotel tower providing 964 guest rooms
- 160,000 square foot podium with a buffet, a food court, a dome-covered pool area and Elizabeth Arden Spa
- 900-space expansion of the existing valet parking garage
- 782-space surface parking lot
- 1,600 linear foot public waterfront walkway
- Mitigation project restoring/enhancing over one acre of coastal wetlands
- Relocation of 1,600 linear foot, 24-inch diameter sanitary sewer forcemain
- Extensive related infrastructure improvements
The entire Bayview Tower II project is located upon a former sanitary landfill and proximate to Absecon Inlet and Clam Thorofare, a tidal gut. The environmental permitting effort included over 20 Federal, State and local approvals including U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Individual Permit and Mitigation Approval, Federal Aviation Administration No Hazard to Air Navigation Determination, Site Plan Approval, Amendment to the Huron North Redevelopment Plan, and the following New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection permits:
- Coastal Area Facility Review Act (CAFRA) Permit
- Major Modification to Landfill Closure Plan
- Statewide General Permit No. 5
- NJPDES General Remediation Permit
- Treatment Works Approval
- General Industrial Treatment Works Approval
- Water Main Extension Permit
- Temporary Dewatering Water Allocation Permit
- Air Pollution Control Pre-Construction Permit
- Amended Remedial Action Work Plan Approval
- Soil Erosion and Sediment Control Certification
Maintaining Harrah's fast-tracked schedule and directive for the safe and uninterrupted operation of the existing hotel casino, PS&S' design successfully completed the landfill closure by integrating the pile-supported building slab into the cap and implementing an innovative under-slab active venting system to prevent the accumulation of landfill gas within planned buildings and integrating new foundations and complex structural systems with the existing buildings through creative engineering design.
The project greatly improves the amenities offered by this hotel casino property enabling it to compete in the ever-changing Atlantic City market. The project's components have phased openings with the entire project anticipated to be complete in 2008.