Tuesday, becoming the fourth Atlantic City casino to close this year.

The 30-year-old casino at the heart of the Boardwalk shut its doors at 6 a.m. That’s down 31.5 percent from the same period last year, and about the same amount as the Borgata wins during an average two-week period.Ītlantic City began the year with 12 casinos it now has eight.Trump Entertainment Resorts filed for bankruptcy Tuesday and threatened to shut down the Taj Mahal Casino.ĪTLANTIC CITY, NJ - The supervisor drew his finger in a slashing motion moments after the final hand of blackjack had been dealt at Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino. So far this year, Trump Plaza has won just $36.8 million from gamblers. A self-serve kiosk to redeem player’s club points near the parking garage was disconnected and covered in dust. Along an escalator leading to them, fake plastic plants were either missing or stolen from row after row of trays. Many restaurants on the first and third floors have been shut down for months. Visitors to the Miss America pageant last week at Boardwalk Hall next door saw a neon sign proclaiming “Trump Plaz Hotel & Cas.” On the Boardwalk side, the sign read, “U Laza.” Illuminated letters advertising the casino’s name on its front and back facades burned out and were never replaced. One only had to walk from the parking garage through a glass-enclosed walkway over Pacific Avenue to the casino and be enveloped in searing heat that approached 100 degrees from the sun beating down on the glass to experience the property’s frantic cost-cutting moves air conditioning the area was one of the expenses that was deemed non-essential. They really seemed to give up about five years ago.” It was so sad to see it get a little worse every year.

This year the Plaza bar was closed and the 24 hour cafe closed at 2 p.m. “This year they had no bedspreads and they totally gave up on the ice machines. He says its decline was obvious over the last seven years. Jim Redmond is a 60-year-old from Montreal who loves Atlantic City and regularly stayed at Trump Plaza. Its owners, Trump Entertainment Resorts, let it deteriorate in recent years, particularly after a sale for the bargain-basement price of $20 million to a California firm fell through last year. Unlike Revel, which opened just over two years ago and is still considered new and luxurious, or the still-profitable Showboat, shuttered by its owner in the name of reducing competition for the remaining casinos in town, the demise of Trump Plaza could be seen a long way off.ĭespite its prime location at the heart of the Boardwalk and the end of the Atlantic City Expressway (its motto has been “The Center Of It All”), gamblers have been abandoning Trump Plaza for newer, ritzier casinos for years.

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