DEWEY BEACH, DE—The developers of the LighthouseCove project here have put off planned renovations to someexisting hospitality space and instead are looking to add morecondominiums and hotel space.

"We didn't know whether the hotel was going to work or not. It'sworked beautifully," says E. Thomas Harvey,president of Dewey Beach Enterprises, which owns Lighthouse Cove'sblock between Dickinson Street and Van Dyke Street. "So we're doingit a piece at a time. That's allowing us to do what we try to do onevery project of this scale, which is find the market as wego."

The company has obtained permits from Sussex County to add a newbuilding that would feature 22 additional hotel rooms on two floorsand 10 more condo units on two floors. Harvey says his intends toadd 18 condos by May 15th on the Dickinson Street side of theproperty, according to the News Journal.