It is best known for the sprawling resort Atlantis with its extensive water park rides, pools, beach, restaurants, walk-in aquarium and casinos.

He hired the Palm Beach architect John Volk and built the Ocean Club, Cafe Martinique, Hurricane Hole, the Golf Course, among other island landmarks.

He also acquired and installed the Cloisters, a 14th-century French Augustinian monastery originally purchased in Montréjeau[6] and dismantled by William Randolph Hearst in the 1920s.

Huntington Hartford obtained the gambling licence for Paradise Island and included Jim Crosby as an extra investor.

Jim Crosby and Jack Davis then formed a company, Resorts International, to continue developing Paradise Island.