ATLANTIC CITY, NJ—The Caesars Pier shoppingcenter here is about to change hands. Philadelphia developerBart Blatstein has teamed up with casino architectPaul Steelman to buy the 300,000-square-footretail center.

The duo has reached an agreement to acquire the three-story,half empty property for $2.8 million, according to The Inquirer.The shopping center cost Taubman Centers and its partners more than$200 million to build.

In 2011, a group of lenders foreclosed on the center, canceling$135 million in debt and interest Taubman still owed, andeventually put the property up for sale.

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John Jordan

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