This and other projects in the initiative will complement each other in specific areas.

To increase the odds for success Mr. Kaatz said such projects should complement other community initiatives.

They are following an overall plan worked out by a different developer and local officials to ensure the project would complement the character of the five-square mile borough.

Still, he says, the two projects have complemented each other.

Such projects also complement an initiative begun a year ago by the private Greater Atlantic City Golf Association.

The project will complement existing services, such as the city's Opportunity Reconnect and the state's Another Chance re-entry programs.

Both developers said their projects complemented rather than competed with each other and served to stabilize the area further.

The projects complement others being built by the company in Times Square and Battery Park City in Manhattan.

Dia's director, Michael Govan, said the project was "complementing what Dia is doing by working with a younger generation of artists."

This project complemented the recently inaugurated tourist pier in the nearby Port of Ponce, and which saw an investment of $4 million.