Sea level rise and sunny-day flooding can’t stop a building boom on the Jersey Shore

EMILIE LOUNSBERRY / INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS – Million-dollar condos are rising just off the legendary boardwalk here in what used to be a blue-collar shore town where Bruce Springsteen played as a young musician.

Half an hour south, excavation is making way for luxury homes in Seaside Park at the edge of Island Beach State Park, a mecca for fishers who come in droves to cast lines on the pristine beach. Farther south, in Somers Point, contractors are building townhouses near marshes that were engulfed during Superstorm Sandy in 2012 …