These are hard times for Atlantic City, which recently recorded its sixth consecutive year of falling gambling revenues and saw an ambitious new casino prepare for bankruptcy.
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) -- Michael Garrity recalls sitting on a pile of dirt at the end of the Atlantic City Boardwalk in 2006 with Kevin DeSanctis, a former New Jersey state trooper and casino executive. Morgan Stanley, Garrity's Wall Street investment firm, had just lined up land for what would become Revel, a new casino resort....
Trump Plaza, the Boardwalk centerpiece of Donald Trump's one-time Atlantic City empire, was sold to a California company for $20 million in the cheapest of a series of bargain-basement deals for distressed gambling casinos in the struggling New Jersey seaside resort.
A month after Hurricane Sandy pounded the New Jersey Shore; Atlantic City is back in business. Even though most of the casinos, restaurants and the famous boardwalk suffered very little damage in the storm, they're now suffering from a lack of visitors.» E-Mail This » Add to Del.icio.us
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