In 2021, Mita, who owns Icona Resorts, bought Gillian’s Wonderland property from the Gillian family for a reported $14 ...
In a four-hour meeting, Ocean City Council voted to ask the Planning Board to designate Wonderland as an area in need of ...
Sunday marked the final day of rides and the end of an era at Gillian's Wonderland Pier, the amusement park that has operated for nearly a century on the Ocean City Boardwalk. Beloved by generations ...
Many of us of a certain age have treasured childhood memories of the Jersey Shore. It's fun to wax nostalgic of perhaps the drive-in movie theater in Manahawkin, Hunt's Pier in Wildwood or the rooftop ...
Just one week after the announced closure of the Wonderland Pier, Ocean City and the Gillian family faced another loss: Roy Gillian, Wonderland's founder and a decades-long familiar, friendly face in ...
The Ocean City library was packed Monday night as residents heard from a developer who described his plans to build a hotel to replace Gillian's Wonderland Pier on the boardwalk. Reaction from the ...
OCEAN CITY — After extensive speculation about the future of the former Gillian’s Wonderland, developer Eustace Mita brought a proposal for a 252-room hotel to be known as “Icona in Wonderland” to a ...
Former Ocean City mayor Roy Gillian died at 94. (Godfrey Funeral Home) The Jersey Shore has lost an icon. Roy Gillian, the former mayor of Ocean City, New Jersey, and founder of Gillian’s Wonderland ...
Unusual Imax effort sticks to one tone and one topography -- the patterns of life around the world's shrinking coral reefs -- only revealing its agenda in an abrupt plea at the end. Already playing in ...
The Ocean Beach streetcars were packed and running every 20 minutes instead of the usual hourly train. An anticipatory buzz among the passengers made for a jolly jaunt from downtown San Diego out to ...