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Patrick J. McAuley is a partner in the firm’s Real
Estate Law and Land Use section and Business
Litigation
section. During his thirty-year legal
career, he has provided counsel in connection with a
substantial range
of issues arising out of the
acquisition and sale of properties, municipal land
use law (including
applications for zoning, planning
and building permit approvals as well as appeals
from notices of violations thereof), creation of
redevelopment areas, the use of eminent domain or
condemnation, relocation assistance and
environmental regulatory issues. He has assisted in
obtaining subdivision, site plan and related permits
and approvals for projects of nearly every size and
character, including retail and office spaces,
hotels, a baseball stadium, an aquarium, housing
projects and others in various counties throughout
New Jersey.
He has served as either general counsel or special
counsel to the New Jersey Casino Reinvestment
Development Authority (“CRDA”) since 1995. In
connection with representation of the CRDA, among
other things, Mr. McAuley has overseen the use of
eminent domain proceedings to acquire several
hundred sites not only for infrastructure
improvements but also for various types of
commercial, industrial, residential, and
recreational facilities.
Mr. McAuley also has negotiated a variety of
financing structures and drafted related instruments
in connection with the development or redevelopment
of properties.
He represented Enron in connection
with the sale of its assets in New Jersey during its
bankruptcy, negotiated and drafted complex
agreements with New Jersey
Transit and the New
Jersey Turnpike Authority relating
to developments
within the air rights at the Frank Lautenberg Rail
Station in Secaucus. Mr. McAuley recently negotiated
agreements for the financing and development of two
major roadway and related infrastructure projects in
Atlantic City, one with an estimated $58 million
project budget and the other with an estimated $10
million project budget. Both involve multiple
funding sources and a unique combination of public
sector commitments with private sector commitments
in terms of both the financing and the construction
of the developments. Mr. McAuley also has litigated
prerogative writ actions on behalf of potential
developers in connection with challenges to various
zoning and related ordinances.
Prior to joining Connell Foley in 1982, Mr. McAuley
began his legal career as Law Clerk to Chief Justice
Richard J. Hughes of the Supreme Court of New
Jersey. He also clerked for the Honorable George P. Helfrich,
the Superior Court of New Jersey Law Division.
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