Ocean Resort Casino to Drive Hard Rock Wave, Announces Same June 28 Opening Date
Ocean Resort Casino is opening June 28, the same day as Hard Rock, in what’s most likely to become Atlantic City’s unofficial begin to the 2018 summer.
Ocean Resort Casino would be to open its doorways in June on the very day that is same its neighbor down the Boardwalk.
Though summer technically starts a week previously June 21, the opening of Ocean Resort and tough Rock on the day that is same attract a mob of people to New Jersey’s beachfront gambling hub.
Ocean Resort, the revel that is former and Hard Rock, the former Trump Taj Mahal, are just a short walk from one another.
Ocean Resort was acquired in January by Colorado developer Bruce Deifik’s Integrated characteristics for $200 million from Glenn Straub. The home, which cost $2.4 billion to build but closed not as much as two and a years that are half its 2014 opening, had been offered to Straub in bankruptcy for just $82 million.
Deifik’s group is overhauling the resort at an unknown expense to make it more attractive than its previous incarnation. The smoking ban is being lifted, two-night minimum weekend stays are no more, pedestrian traffic flow is being made simpler, and the general ‘stuffy’ customer service will be changed to ‘treat people with respect,’ Deifik recently told the Associated Press.
After rumors emerged that Ocean Resort Casino was considering opening the same day as complex Rock, Deifik confirmed just as much in a statement issued on Monday.