Ocean Resort Casino grand opening rides wave of Atlantic City optimism
The highly-anticipated Ocean Resort Casino opened its doors along the Atlantic City Boardwalk Thursday afternoon, becoming one of two new luxury resorts promising to pump life back into the struggling city. Ocean Resort’s new owners, who set to work on transforming the shuttered $2.6 billion Revel in January, celebrated the transformation of Atlantic City’s tallest […]
Atlantic City Welcomes Back 2 Shuttered Casinos
Movie stars lent an air of celebrity glitz to a gritty seaside gambling resort Thursday as Atlantic City reclaimed two of its shuttered casinos, and more than 6,000 of the 11,000 jobs it lost during a brutal stretch of casino shutdowns. The Hard Rock, which was the former Trump Taj Mahal, held a mass guitar […]
Smashing debut for Atlantic City Hard Rock
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City opened its doors Thursday with a guitar smash that would have made Pete Townshend proud. The much-anticipated resort was packed as thousands streamed into its resort’s casino, music venues, shops and restaurants on the resort’s official opening day. “We promised you that we wouldn’t just paint it and […]
Atlantic City Hard Rock, Ocean Resort open early
In a Boardwalk surprise, two new casinos that were due to open Thursday started taking bets from gamblers a day early. The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City and Ocean Resort Casino both received permission Wednesday afternoon from the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement to begin full operations, and both immediately started letting […]