Meadowlands resort dream taking shape

By HUGH R. MORLEY
Staff Writer - The Bergen Record
May 6, 2001

Like the king of the hill, Bill Gauger stood atop a 100-foot high trash mountain in North Arlington and laid out his vision for a chunk of the Meadowlands below.

A light wind billowed through the dry swamp grass as Gauger, the president of developer EnCap Golf Inc., sketched out the company's $1 billion plan to transform the mess of disjointed trash heaps, industrial debris, and swamps into a golfers' paradise and more.

Here would be a marina. There a hotel and offices. Here he would demolish 10 electricity pylons at a cost of $2 million, just because they ruin the view. There he would move three radio towers -- at a cost of $5 million -- and build train stations, hotels, a holiday village.

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