Officials say a long-planned RV park on 135 acres of former state open space in the Fort DuPont (Delaware) redevelopment project is back on track after the property appeared to be headed toward a potential Sheriff Sale, according to Delaware Online.
Todd Burbage, an RV park developer who purchased the state property near the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal from the publicly funded Ft. DuPont Redevelopment and Preservation Corp, said he and the corporation have “kissed and made up” after he paid them approximately $1.1 million earlier this summer and committed to paying the other $1 million owed for the property this fall.
In 2021, Burbage, who has developed such parks up and down the East Coast, purchased the property from the redevelopment corporation, which financed $2.1 million of the $3.6 million purchase price contingent on his development of the park. The sale was controversial and came during a string of controversies involving the former redevelopment corporation’s director.
“We are hoping to break ground in the next couple of months and restart construction and turn it into a campground,” Burbage said in a recent phone call with Delaware Online/The News Journal.
