Eustace Mita told the crowd he’d pitched saving Gillian’s to another iconic Jersey shore amusement family: the Morey brothers, but they’d turned him down.

Ocean City residents were able to hear from the developer about his plans to transform Gillian's Wonderland Pier into a hotel.

As developers presented their plan to replace the now closed Wonderland Pier with a high-end resort boardwalk hotel, folks packed a meeting in Ocean City to express their viewpoints.