When Revel, Atlantic City’s $2.4 billion casino shut down in 2014, Meg Timson wondered what would happen to a building that was only about two years old, and already out of business. Turns out she didn’t need to worry: She’s been rehired for her human resources job now that the casino is reopening under new ownership and a new name: the Ocean Resort Casino.
“It feels like I never left,” she said. “I sat down at my same desk, opened the drawer, and there was a ChapStick that I left there four years ago.” Timson is one of hundreds of workers who lost their jobs during a brutal two-year stretch in which five Atlantic City casinos shut down who are getting them