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====Closed casinos==== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center" |- !width=155|Casino !width=155|Opening Date !width=155|Closing Date !width=410|Status of Property |- | [[Trump Taj Mahal]]||April 2, 1990||October 10, 2016 || The casino shut down having failed to reach a deal with its union workers to restore health care and pension benefits that were taken away from them in bankruptcy court. Nearly 3,000 workers lost their jobs. Reopened in 2018 as the [[Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Atlantic City]]. |- | [[Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino|Trump Plaza]]||May 14, 1984 || September 16, 2014 || On February 15, 2013, Trump Entertainment Resorts announced that it intended to sell Trump Plaza to the Meruelo Group for $20 million, the lowest price ever paid for an Atlantic City casino.<ref>Wittkowski, Donald. [http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/top_three/trump-plaza-hotel-and-casino-sold-to-california-company-for/article_dcb69502-76e8-11e2-9f0a-001a4bcf887a.html "Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino sold to California company for only $20 million"], ''[[The Press of Atlantic City]]'', February 15, 2013. Accessed October 30, 2015.</ref> [[Carl Icahn]], senior lender for Trump Plaza's mortgage, declined to approve the sale for the proposed price.<ref>Wittkowski, Donald. [http://m.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/top_three/carl-icahn-won-t-approve-sale-of-trump-plaza-for/article_6bf05244-abb4-11e2-97a7-0019bb2963f4.html?mode=jqm "Carl Icahn won't approve sale of Trump Plaza for $20M"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304114444/http://m.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/top_three/carl-icahn-won-t-approve-sale-of-trump-plaza-for/article_6bf05244-abb4-11e2-97a7-0019bb2963f4.html?mode=jqm |date=March 4, 2016 }}, ''[[The Press of Atlantic City]]'', April 23, 2013. Accessed October 30, 2015.</ref> The casino was later demolished on February 17, 2021.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Tully|first=Tracey|date=2021-02-17|title=Watch the Trump Era in Atlantic City End With 3,000 Sticks of Dynamite|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/nyregion/atlantic-city-trump-plaza-implosion.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20211228/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/17/nyregion/atlantic-city-trump-plaza-implosion.html |archive-date=2021-12-28 |url-access=limited|access-date=2021-02-18|issn=0362-4331}}{{cbignore}}</ref> |- | [[Revel Atlantic City|Revel]]||April 2, 2012 || September 2, 2014 || [[Brookfield Asset Management]]'s winning bid of $110 million on September 30, 2014, for Atlantic City's Revel Casino Hotel, and the company's intention to operate it as a casino, generated some excitement, but the company backed out of this deal on November 19, 2014.<ref>Brubaker, Harold. [https://web.archive.org/web/20150215053315/http://articles.philly.com/2014-12-12/business/56959964_1_revel-ac-inc-revel-casino-hotel-dco-energy-l-l-c "Revel abandons Brookfield deal"], ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'', December 12, 2014. Accessed October 30, 2015. "U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Gloria M. Burns on Wednesday scheduled a hearing for that morning to consider Revel AC Inc.'s motion to terminate its agreement to sell its property to a subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management Inc. for $110 million."</ref> In January 2018, it was announced that the property had been sold for $200 million.<ref>Palmieri, Christopher. [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-08/atlantic-city-s-failed-revel-casino-sells-for-200-million "Atlantic City's Failed Revel Casino Sells for $200 Million"], [[Bloomberg News]], January 8, 2018. Accessed September 14, 2018.</ref> It reopened as the [[Ocean Resort Casino]] in June 2018. |- | [[Showboat Atlantic City|Showboat]] || April 2, 1987 || August 31, 2014|| On December 13, 2014, Stockton University purchased the property for $18 million with the intent of turning it into an Atlantic City campus. However, a preexisting [[Covenant (law)|covenant]] required the property to operate as a casino. Stockton entered an agreement providing Glenn Straub with an option to purchase the property, which was not exercised.<ref>via [[Associated Press]]. [http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/aug/10/judge-contract-between-stockton-straub-properly-te/ "Judge: Stockton can find another buyer for Showboat"], ''[[The Washington Times]]'', August 10, 2015. Accessed October 30, 2015.</ref> Stockton subsequently sold the property to developer Bart Blatstein in January 2016 for $23 million.<ref name=lai>Lai, Jonathan. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160306231009/http://articles.philly.com/2016-01-17/news/69818812_1_showboat-bart-blatstein-atlantic-city "Stockton completes Showboat sale to Blatstein"], ''[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]'', January 17, 2016. Accessed June 23, 2016. "The Philadelphia-based developer Bart Blatstein bought the property for $23 million, inheriting a legal mess but clearing Stockton to move forward with other plans."</ref> The building was reopened in July 2016 as a non-casino hotel. |- | [[Atlantic Club Casino Hotel|Atlantic Club]]||December 12, 1980||January 13, 2014||Building and contents sold to [[Caesars Entertainment Corporation]]. Slots and tables sold to [[Tropicana Casino & Resort Atlantic City]]. |- |[[Trump Marina]] |June 19, 1985 |May 23, 2011 |Building sold to [[Landry's, Inc.]] in February 2011, sale approved in May and Landry's took control on May 23 of that year and renamed it the Golden Nugget Atlantic City. |- | [[Sands Atlantic City|Sands]] || August 31, 1980 || November 11, 2006|| Building demolished in 2007. The site is now an empty lot after a proposal estimated at up to $2 billion by Pinnacle Entertainment for a casino on the site did not move forward.<ref>Staff. [http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/travel/hotels/2007-10-19-sands-implosion_N.htm "Sands casino in Atlantic City imploded"], ''[[USA Today]]'', October 19, 2007. Accessed October 30, 2015. "It took less than 20 seconds for the 21-story, 500-room tower where Frank Sinatra once held court to come crashing to the ground shortly after 9:30 p.m. in the first implosion of an East Coast casino. The demolition makes way for a mega-casino to be built on the Sands site by Pinnacle Entertainment at an estimated cost of $1.5 billion to $2 billion."</ref> |- | [[The Claridge Hotel (Atlantic City)|Claridge]] || July 20, 1981 || December 30, 2002 || Now operating as an independent non-casino hotel. |- | [[Trump World's Fair]]|| May 15, 1996 || October 3, 1999 || Building was demolished and replaced by new strip stores.<ref>Staff. [https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/10/nyregion/trump-planning-to-demolish-world-s-fair-casino-in-atlantic-city.html "Trump Planning to Demolish World's Fair Casino in Atlantic City"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', July 10, 1999. Accessed October 30, 2015. "Donald J. Trump plans to demolish his World's Fair casino in Atlantic City around the end of the year and may build a 4,000-room, $750 million gambling complex in its place, officials of his development company said yesterday."</ref> |- | [[Trump World's Fair|Atlantis Casino]]|| April 14, 1981 || July 4, 1989 || Originally opened by Playboy Enterprises, which was found unsuitable for licensure, Playboy casino closed and then reopened by Elsinor Corporation as the Atlantis. In 1989 the Casino Control Commission revoked Atlantis' license and property sold to become [[Trump World's Fair]] an extension of the Trump Plaza. |- |}
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