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Pennsylvania Passes Jersey, Now #2 Gambling State in Country

Pennsylvania this year has eclipsed New Jersey as the number two gambling market in the country. (We don’t need to tell you who’s #1.) “Casino […]

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Miss’d America Returns to AC: The Real Queen Will Be Crowned

The Press of Atlantic City reports: The 2013 Miss’d America competition will be held at 8 p.m. (Saturday) at the House of the Blues at […]

City Life

New Miss America to Visit Damaged Seaside Boardwalk

New Miss America Nina Davuluri has now given us the second reasons to care about the Miss America pageant. The first was that the competition […]

City Life

Revel Sued Over Summer Refund Promotion

Just when you thought things couldn’t get worse for Atlantic City’s newest ailing gambling palace, someone throws a lawsuit. One New York couple is suing […]

Property

Morning Headlines: Atlantic City Scores PR Win With Miss America

Last night, the Jersey shore got a much needed reprieve from bad news: The Miss America pageant (say what you will about its retrograde values) […]

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Miss America 2014 Nina Davuluri Dips Her Toes in the Atlantic Ocean

The Miss America Pageant has returned to Atlantic City after seven years in Las Vegas. Here is the new Miss America, Nina Davuluri of New […]

City Life

Miss America Crowns First Winner of Indian Descent in Atlantic City

The Miss America pageant crowned its first winner of Indian Descent in Atlantic City last night in Nina Davuluri, 24, Miss New York, who said […]

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Atlantic City Welcomes Miss America Contestants

ABC News: Atlantic City will welcome back the Miss America pageant with a ceremony Tuesday afternoon on the shore city’s famed boardwalk for all 53 […]

Revel — which tried to be a casino that wasn't really a casino by banning smoking and focusing on entertainment that didn't involve slots — is for sale. While the building is certainly gorgeous, it's also been a dismal failure. It opened in 2012 and filed for bankruptcy 10 months later. If it sells, that selling price will be an indication of Atlantic City's gambling market, which right now is about as healthy as smokers chained to slot machines at Revel right now. (They dropped the non-smoking policy in 2013, natch.) The Atlantic Club, formerly the Atlantic City Hilton, sold for a paltry $23.4 million to a Caesars/Tropicana partnership (in comparison: the Sands sold for $250 million in 2006). The Atlantic Club is no longer operating, and just last week Caesars, which is the dominant casino company in Atlantic City, said it might start shutting down properties. So don't expect the Revel number to be a blockbuster.
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Morning Headlines: Casino Strip Club Inspires Painful Wordplay and Depressing Triangles

Just as we were lauding Margate, NJ’s housing market and the changing perception of Atlantic City, today comes this headline on philly.com: “Bust to boom: […]

City Life

AC’s Taj Mahal on Verge of Opening Strip Club

As we told you in July—and as has been in the works since 2011, at least—Atlantic City’s Trump Taj Mahal is going to open a […]

City Life

Sports Betting Is Just the Thing to Stop Atlantic City’s Downward Spiral

The Press of Atlantic City reports: Even if New Jersey loses its latest bid to tap into the multibillion-dollar sports betting industry, federal legislation could […]

City Life

Forbes: Atlantic City Among Best Places for Business and Careers

And the hits just keep on coming for good old Atlantic City. Yesterday, I reported that Conde Nast Traveler had declared A.C. to be one […]

City Life

Conde Nast: Atlantic City One Of World’s Most Unfriendly Places

Atlantic City may have the cheapest airport in the country and some of the most authentic Vietnamese food around, but it’s also one of the […]

City Life

Atlantic City Airport Airfares Are Cheapest In Country

The United States Department of Transportation’s Bureau of Transportation Statistics, which sounds like a really exciting place to work, recently released its first-quarter report of […]

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Atlantic City Gets Positive Press, a Nice Change of Pace!

From the New York Times: “A scant 125 miles away, in and around this gambling mecca [of Atlantic City], are a clutch of Vietnamese cafes […]