It’s only been about a year since Showboat Hotel owner Bart Blatstein broke ground on a $100 million indoor water park in Atlantic City, but as seen on Wednesday, the structure seems to have made significant progress. In announcing the groundbreaking last year, Blatstein said that the water park being erected just off the city’s boardwalk… Read more »
ATLANTIC CITY — The Claridge Hotel in Atlantic City is making space on what used to be its casino floor for a cannabis dispensary and lounge that could open as soon as this summer. The state is finalizing its approval of regulations on legalized consumption lounges, where customers can smoke, vaporize, or eat cannabis products… Read more »
The luxury and glass project to convert the former Atlantic Club hotel casino into a “condo-tel” means change for the Atlantic City skyline. It also means bringing a modern look for part of the Chelsea neighborhood. Plans call for striking exterior glass plating to reflect the ocean and the sky from 23 stories above the Boardwalk. It’s a design… Read more »
The Showboat Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey, is finishing up $50 million in renovations set to be done to coincide with the debut of its new $100 million indoor water park this summer. Philadelphia developer Bart Blatstein, the Showboat’s owner, on Tuesday said the final phase of remodeling the hospitality property’s 800 rooms, suites, lobby… Read more »
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 »
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 »
