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Caesars Entertainment Corporation investing in Atlantic City

Adam Morgan
January 29, 2020
Latest Casino and Gambling News, Casino proposals, Casino News, Gaming Industry News, Economy/Finance, Mergers, Acquisitions & Partnerships, New Jersey
Caesars Entertainment Corporation has reportedly agreed to spend an undisclosed amount of cash in order to buy back a shopping and entertainment pier located next to one of its three Atlantic City casinos. A...

Showboat owners wants to bring back casino gaming

Marie Kelley
March 21, 2019
Latest Casino and Gambling News, Casino expansion projects, New Jersey
For the past few years, the Showboat property in Atlantic City has been operating as a non-gaming hotel facility. Purchased by developer, Bart Blatstein, in 2016, a deed restriction from 2014 kept the property ...

Appeals court rules against Straub in former Showboat casino claim

Marie Kelley
March 12, 2017
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Glenn Straub has been fighting two battles in Atlantic City, both concerning two former casinos. Straub currently owns the former Revel Casino and has been trying to reopen the venue under a new brand known as ...

Carl Icahn confirms Showboat casino can operate as non-casino hotel

Marie Kelley
October 5, 2016
Latest Casino and Gambling News, New Hotels, New Jersey
As of yesterday, billionaire investor Carl Icahn has confirmed that the former Showboat Casino of Atlantic City can now operate as a non-casino hotel. A spokesman for Icahn confirmed that the investor and a dev...

Former Showboat Casino set for new opening on July 8 sans casino

Renee Kingsley
July 4, 2016
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The Showboat casino in Atlantic City was one of the four casinos to shutdown due to poor revenues and the property was eventually purchased by Bart Blatstein, the CEO of Tower Investments, a retail and entertai...

Atlantic City’s Showboat Casino to reopen in July as non-gambling hotel

Marie Kelley
June 4, 2016
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Bart Blatstein, a developer from Philadelphia, is the owner of the former Showboat Casino, which closed back in 2014. Atlantic City lost four casinos that year, with the Showboat remaining shuttered since that ...

Former Showboat casino in Atlantic City’s sale finalized by Stockton University

K Morrison
January 17, 2016
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The drama that has enveloped Stockton University since the December 13, 2014 purchase of the shuttered Showboat Atlantic City hotel and casino for $18 million, seems to have finally come to an end. The Universi...

Former Showboat Casino’s uses weighed by Blatstein

K Morrison
November 11, 2015
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Re-opening the former Showboat in Atlantic City as a casino is apparently not out of the question, according to new owner Bart Blatstein who in June redeveloped the Boardwalk’s former Pier Shops complex into Th...

Stockton University reveals buyer identity and makes new agreement for sale of former Showboat casino

Renee Kingsley
November 10, 2015
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Stockton University has been trying for a number of months to sell the former Showboat casino in Atlantic City after the university realized in retrospect that it had made a bad decision in purchasing this casi...

Stockton’s sale of Showboat to Blatstein delayed until January

Lars Jones
November 7, 2015
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Stockton University announced Friday that their sale of the former Showboat Casino to Philadelphia developer, Bart Blatstein which was expected to wrap up Monday, will be delayed until mid January. The news was...

Nearly $8 million spent on Showboat Casino by Stockton U

K Morrison
October 14, 2015
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Since the purchase of the now retired Showboat Casino in Atlantic City, Stockton University has doled out close to $8 million on the property in just short of a year according to records. After the due dilig...

Philadelphia developer Blatstein purchasing former Showboat Casino

K Morrison
September 19, 2015
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An announcement on Friday by Showboat's current owner Stockton University revealed that Philadelphia developer Bart Blatstein will purchase the former casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey for $22 million. The pu...

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