More than a year after Hard Rock pumped some serious juice into Atlantic City’s stagnant casino market, the amped-up revival of the former Trump Taj Mahal made its official debut on Thursday with the expected glitz, glamor and guitar smashing.
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
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
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
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
Atlantic City’s newest casinos threw open their doors to gamblers Wednesday — a day earlier than scheduled. The previously shuttered Hard Rock and the Ocean Resort Casino were supposed to open Thursday, but both received permission Wednesday afternoon from the
In what is easily the most exciting day in the last 30 years of Atlantic City’s history, two new casinos, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City and Ocean Resort Casino, will open their doors on June 28, offering up
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
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.
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
When four of Atlantic City’s 12 casinos shut down in 2014 and a fifth followed two years later, it seemed to many that the city’s gambling industry was in an irreversible death spiral. But things have been looking up since
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino is one step closer to being ready to open its doors to the public on June 28. A 60-foot guitar, brought in as two pieces on trucks, was installed over several hours Saturday at the
The openings of the Hard Rock and Ocean Resort casinos in Atlantic City have generated quite a bit of attention for the Jersey Shore resort town. A neighboring hotel that experienced a re-birth two years ago doesn’t want to be
Bruce Deifik was close to tears Thursday as he reflected on an arduous journey that began with a $10 million investment on an unseen property in an unfamiliar city. “Now the work truly starts,” said Deifik, owner and chairman of
The owner of Atlantic City’s Ocean Resort Casinos promised to “surprise the world” when the former Revel casino reopens next week. And the surprises began Wednesday when the casino’s executives unveiled some optimistic financial projections that would see it do