The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement announced the December 2022 gaming results Jan. 17, which saw the state’s casinos end the year on a high note. Last month, casino win for the nine Atlantic City casino properties was $215.6 million, an 18% increase versus December 2021 ($211.8 million). “Even up against strong seasonal and… Read more »
MAYS LANDING — In the age of online shopping and truncated mall store rosters, shoppers such as Northfield’s Lindsay Arargil still enjoy a face-to-face buying experience. Arargil knows she could have bought clothes for herself from American Eagle online, but with free time on a Thursday about three weeks before Christmas, she wanted to try… Read more »
MARGATE — After 15 months and $2.4 million in restorations, Lucy the Elephant unveiled her new look Wednesday before a couple hundred fans. The elephant’s caretakers held a celebration that included city resident Dan Walsh singing the “Lucy the Elephant” song and speeches from Commissioner John Amodeo and Assemblyman Don Guardian, R-Atlantic. Police blocked off… Read more »
After years of neglect, the Ventnor Shopping Plaza on Wellington Ave has a new owner with a plan. Ventnor Plaza now getting a major facelift. Developer Mark Greco tells DownbeachBUZZ that as of Dec. 23, 2022, the following have signed leases or Letters of Intent: Pickle Juice, Indoor Pickleball Facility Burger King Starbucks Ivy Nail Salon… Read more »
HAMILTON TOWNSHIP — The Atlantic City Race Course had long been a local landmark. Celebrities and politicians, rock stars and sports legends made appearances there, drawing in thousands of visitors and bringing life to the township and its neighbors. It is today populated with overgrown weeds and deteriorating stands, having been closed for seven years…. Read more »
South Jersey may be Wawa country, but its borders end at the sign that reads, “Welcome to Atlantic City.” The resort may offer all kinds of amenities, from beautiful beaches to gambling to first-class restaurants, but you can’t get an Italian shorti here. And no one will say exactly why. Wawa has a reported 983… Read more »
The Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! museum on the Atlantic City boardwalk, known for its unique exterior and mind-bending exhibits, will close after 26 years in business. The museum is inspired by cartoonist and entrepreneur Robert Ripley’s original newspaper panels in the New York Globe and the New York Evening Post, where Ripley shared strange… Read more »
Atlantic City’s iconic Warner Theatre will be resurrected by Spiegelworld – producers of ground-breaking shows including the Las Vegas megahit Absinthe – opening in June 2023 at Caesars Atlantic City, as the city’s only permanent live entertainment destination: The Hook. In 1929, an icon was born on the Atlantic City Boardwalk. Dubbed the “Wonder Theatre… Read more »
A pair of big-name Philadelphia developers are teaming up to propose a $3 billion mixed-use project at Bader Field in Atlantic City, the latest plan pitched for the long-vacant site. The proposal from Tower Investments CEO Bart Blatstein and Post Brothers’ CEO Michael Pestronkand President Matt Pestronk calls for 10,000 residential units, 200,000 square feet of retail space and 100,000… Read more »
ATLANTIC CITY — Developers of the Boardwalk property that once housed the Atlantic Club Casino Hotel say the building will be renovated into luxury condominiums. Rocco Sebastiani, the principal for Colosseo Atlantic City Inc., the New York investment and construction firm that owns the Atlantic Club, said plans are in the works to renovate the Boardwalk… Read more »
