‘Soft play’ set for Hard Rock, Ocean Resort Casino
In three days, casino executives and city officials will smash ceremonial guitars, pop champagne and congratulate each other on a job well done as the city’s two newest casinos — the first since 2012 — open within an hour of each other. But that’s Thursday. Before then, there are games to be tested, pools to […]
Atlantic City Places a New Bet on an Old Favorite: Casinos
Two years after plummeting gambling revenue nearly tipped this seaside resort into bankruptcy, two new casinos are opening on the boardwalk. The casinos, which have hired more than 7,000 workers in total, are scheduled to open their doors on Thursday. Atlantic City officials and business leaders cheered the new jobs, while pointing to investments by […]
Gambling is back at 2 once-shuttered Atlantic City casinos
People are winning and losing money again for the first time in years at two Atlantic City casinos that had been shut down. Monday marked the first day of so-called “soft play” at the Ocean Resort Casino and the Hard Rock. The testing period is designed to see how the casinos’ equipment and technology systems […]