@evansanchez@ACEconPolicy I kind of hope Caesar’s unloads the Trop and the Illitches buy it and return it to its glory. If it was connected to ocean that would be a lot of room stock for them to share
@mantarnyc They cried their crocodile tears all those years it wasn’t legal and are showing their true colors now being pigs stinking up the city. Despicable.
@ACEconPolicy Props to Blatstein for keeping the lights on as the clock runs out on the deed restriction. If it had sat abandoned odds are it would have deteriorated beyond the point of salvation.
It was so unlikely. I think one unheralded factor was the development of Hard Rock. If that hadn’t happened would there have been any feasibility for reopening it at all?
As far as once it was operational I think the lobby to casino elevators and the inadvertent negative to positive of its design for Covid may have been the most important changes.
If not for all this would the building even still standing 9 years after the death of Revel.
@AlecTorelli I would have folded on the River to cut my losses. With that run out and betting pattern up against a pro, I would not want to lose more with one pair.
@AC_Danzis I wonder how Showboat does with its offerings. And will do in q3 with the water park. It’s not gaming but it will be closer to a full fledged operation now.
@AC_Danzis I think the money would have been spent better to shut Ballys down for more ambitious changes that couldn’t feasibly be done while it’s operational.
@AC_Danzis I was there last week and for all the updates it still feels like the same old Ballys when you walk inside the casino. Even Showboat has more pizzazz and vivacity with its new stuff. I don’t like HR personally but when you walk in it feels comprehensively updated from the Taj.