Somers Point's City Council voted to adopt Ordinance No. 11 of 2025, approving a redevelopment plan for the 90 Broadway site and later authorized a redevelopment agreement with Excellar Building Solutions LLC tied to that project.

Resident Levi Fox, who identified himself as living at 90 Broadway, urged the council to reconsider how the process was managed and described displaced low- and moderate-income households, saying the city had a responsibility under the Local Redevelopment and Housing Law to ensure tenant relocation. “Rather than taking accountability for its actions, the city throughout this process has attempted to ignore its state level legal responsibility,” Fox said during public comment, and he argued 16 apartments could have remained available with different management.

The council reviewed a memorandum from the Planning Board stating the plan’s consistency with the master plan; council members then held a roll-call vote on Ordinance 11. Council member Owen, Council member DePamphilis, Council member Johnston, Council member Dill, Council member McGuigan and Council President Haberkorn recorded “yes” votes, and the ordinance was adopted. Later in the meeting the governing body approved Resolution No. 169 of 2025, authorizing execution of a redevelopment agreement between the city and Excellar Building Solutions LLC for Block 2018, Lots 1.01, 1.02, 1.03, 1.04, 1.05, 1.08, 2.02, 1.06 and 1.07.

Council discussion recorded that members had the Planning Board memorandum in their packets and that the board had found the redevelopment plan consistent with the master plan. The record does not show the council negotiating any additional relocation terms on the floor at that meeting; members relied on the planning board memorandum and the redevelopment agreement packet distributed with the agenda.

The ordinance adoption and the redevelopment-agreement approval are formal actions that finalize the city’s legal authorization to proceed under the redevelopment plan and to enter the agreement with Excellar Building Solutions LLC. Public commenters who raised tenant-relocation concerns did not identify specific negotiated relocation commitments in the adopted materials at the meeting.

Council President Haberkorn announced the ordinance adopted following the roll call; Resolution 169 was approved by voice vote later in the meeting with no recorded opposing votes.

What happens next: the adopted ordinance and the agreement establish the city’s redevelopment framework for the listed lots. The transcript does not specify an implementation timeline, funding commitments, or detailed relocation provisions beyond the public comment claims and the Planning Board memorandum referenced at the meeting.