Developers have submitted about a half-dozen proposals for St. Marys’ old Gilman Paper site, as Camden County tries again to get a destination project built on its 700 waterfront acres.
The proposals came from real estate groups with different interests and areas of expertise, said James Coughlin, executive director of the Camden County Joint Development Authority, which set a March 31 deadline for pitches.
The county wants a mixed-use “live-work-play” destination of interest to both visitors and residents that will include a marina. That could have described Atlanta developer Jim Jacoby’s Cumberland Inlet project, which had a groundbreaking but ended in a 2025 bankruptcy and a loss of about $10.5 million to the county’s development authority. The authority expects to make up the loss in a sale to one or more developers.
The public agency and its board are already reviewing the plans and will invite shortlisted developers for private interviews later this month. Coughlin said he expects a May decision by his board on how to proceed.
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