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CityBoom - Atlantic City 2.0

Atlantic City 2.0 extreme makeover edition includes expansions of all existing casinos plus new projects : Pinnacle Atlantic City, Revel Entertainment, MGM Grand Atlantic City, The Water Club and the AC Hilton adjacent mystery project. Oh and did we forget to mention all the insane intrigue surrounding Bader Field?

Borgata Renovating Rooms, Building Outdoor Smoking Lounges

» posted by Chuckmonster on 2008-04-30 19:25:22

Five years since it's grand opening, Borgata will redesign and redecorate all of its 2,000 hotel rooms over the next two years. That Borgata - the newest joint in town - would engage in such an extensive refitting so quickly is a testament to their commitment to keeping the property at the top of its game as new resorts/towers/refurbs open over the next few years.

Finally, competition driving innovation in Atlantic City.

Additionally, Borgata is about to commence construction of covered outdoor smoking lounges that will hopefully keep customers on their property when they've got to huff a puff, similar to what most concert venues do in states where smoking inside is verboten.

The smoking lounges will be covered but not enclosed and heated during winter months.

Revel Construction, Water Club Reservations, AC Gateway = Atlantic City Beach Resort and Casino

» posted by Chuckmonster on 2008-04-22 09:17:48

I apologize for the delay in continuing the Tropicana Soap Opera, I've been sucked into the Macau stuff and the million other things going on in the gamblin' biz.

Here's a coupla quick little tidbits that have been in the news the last few weeks that deserve to be looked at:

Revel In Dirt

Atlantic City Is A GMILF Hot Spot : Ms. Senior America Pageant 2008 at Harrah's AC

» posted by Chuckmonster on 2008-03-27 18:54:09

Calling all AC playahs with a GMILF fetish, the Ms. Senior America Pageant is returning to Atlantic City after spending the last seven years in Las Vegas, as reported in Pinky's Corner.

Ok, Pinky didn't call them GMILFs, but you know that a guy who goes by 'Pinky' is definitely on the prowl. Ms. Senior America is open to women aged 60 and up. Check out last years top 5

And The Next Item Up For Bid... Tropicana Atlantic City (Part 1)

» posted by Chuckmonster on 2008-03-19 09:48:10

I grew up watching the Price Is Right back when it's outlandish 70's stage set didn't seem so outlandish. As I've developed from toddler to grey whiskered late thirty-something, I've kept touch with the ever yet never changing Price is Right drama. I remember clearly Bob's supposed philandering with heaping handfull of 'beauties' and other co-workers, whose annual parade of lawsuits only enhanced Bob's reputation as dressing room Plinko master.

As if performing penance for his pimpdom, Bob - who walks his dogs in a park near my house - decided to bear the cross of controlling the pet population during a credit roll pitch for spaying and neutering. Like bajillions of other TPIR lovers globally, I watched Bob's last show teary eyed, knowing that the Price is Right - for all intents and purposes - was over. Comedian Drew Carey may seem like a good replacement, he's a reasonably affable guy, but he just doesn't have the style or timing that defined The Price Is Right - which for most of us was ostensibly The Bob Barker Show.

Harrah's Waterfront Tower Opens

» posted by Chuckmonster on 2008-03-11 05:02:34

Harrah's Atlantic City opened the Waterfront Tower this past weekend, the first in a potential deluge of expansion projects and new resorts coming to Atlantic City in the next few years. While certainly not as architecturally sexy as MGM Grand Atlantic City or Revel it is still a solid, good looking 44 story hotel tower that will keep Harrah's in the game (somewhat) when The Water Club at Borgata opens in early June 2008.

The Waterfront Tower joins the domed pool and spa which opened last year. The total tally for the Harrah's upgrade which also included upgrades to the casino, retail and restaurants will come to about $550 million dollars when all is said and done.

Building The Ark : Pinnacle Atlantic City

» posted by Chuckmonster on 2008-03-05 09:09:51

CEO Dan Lee has long lusted for the day that Pinnacle Entertainment would outgrow its racetrack and riverboat casino roots and put him back into the big game - Vegas. Setting sights on both Las Vegas and Atlantic City simultaneously, Pinnacle was one of the main suitors of Aztar, owners of the Vegas and Atlantic City Tropicanas, before being nudged out of the bidding process by fellow feeder market operator Columbia-Sussex. Like a spurned lover on the trail for revenge tail, Dan Lee and other Pinnacle executives toured the Sahara Las Vegas within days of realizing that they didn't have enough chips to buy Aztar. Nothing came of their brief dalliance with the north strip oasis. For the time being the only property in Las Vegas with a Pinnacle Entertainment sign out front would be their offices at 3800 Howard Hughes Parkway.

With Aztar takeover financing burning a hole in their pocket and a hunger for playing in the big show, Pinnacle turned its eyes to another property in Atlantic City during the summer of 2006. The rustic Sands Atlantic City, which limped along through numerous owners since its opening as "The Brighton" in 1980, was doomed by a lack of Boardwalk frontage and uncompetitive amenities in its paltry 600 room hotel tower. With the acquisition of the Traymore tract - long held by Park Place/Caesars to thwart a possible Sands resurgence - in May 2006 for $58.5M the Sands AC finally became a unified parcel, ripe for purchase and development. Bajillionaire financier Carl Icahn decided that closure and demolition would be the only way to move forward with the unified property, which included a purchase of a number of shops on the boardwalk as well ($2.5M).