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With all of the casino closings this year, a lot of people will lose their jobs, making the Atlantic City area having one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation. If we could fix Atlantic City, then Atlantic City could become a destination city for the world.
If I could,these are the things I would do:
1. I would tear down both Trump Plaza and the Convention Hall and build a new mega resort with a casino, a indoor water park, a indoor amusement park, a new arena and a small shopping mall as well as multiple hotel and condo towers. It would surrounded by Boardwalk, Bellevue Ave, Pacific Ave, Georgia Ave, Atlantic Ave and Missouri Ave.
2. I would keep Showboat open and expand the Showboat to New Jersey Ave.
3. I would keep Revel open and fix the building as well as building a second tower like it was supposed to be.
4. I would build another mega resort between Borgata and Harrah's. There is a big gap in that part of Atlantic City and it would make more sense to build a few more towers between Borgata and Harrah's.
5. I would make Atlantic Ave only Westbound and Pacific Ave only Eastbound.
6. I would fix a baseball stadium at Bader Field and have a minor league team at that spot.
7. I would keep Atlantic Club open and renovate the property as well as making a budget casino and hotel.
8. I would lower parking fees throughout the city and lower the room rates as well.
9. I would expand the Atlantic City Airport and build another terminal over there.
10. I would build a shuttle rail between the Atlantic City Airport and the Convention Center.
11. I would expand the Golden Nugget to Absecon Inlet so the Golden Nugget could have a private beach area.
12. I would expand the advertising to all parts of the world.
13. I would expand New Jersey Route 87 to Tuckerton, NJ and build a few more bridges.
Last edited by muppethammer26; 09-01-2014 at 06:23 PM..
Your ideas to build more/expand existing casinos will not fix anything. AC needs to move on from casinos. Keep the profitable ones but don't build more or add onto existing failing ones. Fixing crime should be the number 1 priority, IMO, because its reputation is not good. People won't want to go to AC for anything until they can feel safe.
I think Revel should never be built. If a new casino was built in this decade, it should have been built between Borgata and Harrah's, not at the northern end of the boardwalk. If that casino was built in the Marina District, I think it would perform well, seeing how Harrah's, Borgata and the Golden Nugget does. Plus it would give a feeling that the Marina District is developed. What do you think you could do with that big empty space between Borgata and Harrah's?
There is no point in "fixing" any location for arbitrary and irrational reasons. A location is just that, a place on the planet. Atlantic City's value over the past decades consisted of a unique economic fact - it was one of only two places in the United States that had legal casino resorts. That economic fact no longer exists, and will never resume existing. Casinos are now spreading throughout the country and that will increase, not decrease.
Atlantic City is geographically isolated and difficult to get to for most people, because of distance, traffic, tolls, and lack of public transportation.
Therefore, building expensive water parks and other nonsense will not bring in the tourists any more. The casino industry will now contract dramatically, and the only survivors will be those who offer gamblers the best deals and the lowest rake. That means maybe 2 casinos. Borgata and maybe a boardwalk casino, like the Trop. Everything else will close. Everything else should close. Once casino gambling reaches New York City, which is in the works and will be a reality nearby starting in 2 or 3 years and within the boroughs in 7-8 years, gamblers will no longer have any interest in traveling unnecessarily to Atlantic City. Nothing Atlantic City can build or imagine can compete with Manhattan when it comes to entertainment, so there is no point in throwing any more good money after bad.
Atlantic City needs to downsize and contract. That means people should, and will, move out. The population will decrease by 75%, and the strategy should be to return the city to a much smaller and quieter status. Make the oceanfront beautiful, but more of a nature preserve.
No more money should be spent on this town in terms of building big attractions. Especially taxpayer money. It must be allowed to naturally contract and dissipate until it once again becomes its natural self: a quiet shore town, like Ocean City. The draw is now to become the ocean, like it used to be, and that does not allow for importing tourists by the tens of thousands. Nor should it. Life is change. The gambling landscape has changed. In New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, gamblers now will look to hometown casinos in which to gamble, without expensive and time-consuming travel and expense.
As usual, the most profitable way to look at this is by sticking to reality and what has actually happened, which amounts to a 9.0 economic earthquake with respect to the gambling environment on the East Coast. And I haven't even factored in the expansion of online gaming. Nobody has a clue where that will end up, but it certainly won't favor large brick and mortar establishments, certainly not distant ones.
The mistake here, as is so often the case, would be to evade reality and attempt some kind of welfare mentality solution by inefficiently redistributing money. We have to let it contract, and the dislocations and unemployment must be allowed to happen naturally. People will have to move and find new jobs, and that is exactly what they will do. The industry has actually grown dramatically, but it is geographically diffuse, and people will have to pick up and move.
Life is change, and we all should take a lesson from this. Always be developing yourself and keeping yourself ready and able to look for a new opportunity. Do not get into a rut. Do not think of your job as any kind of guarantee. Nothing lasts forever, nor should it. Change is life, life is change.
No tears, no whining, no victimism, no pity. Just look at reality and take care of business.
Nucky Thompson's time machine will be back real soon on HBO. That was a murderous but fun time to be an AC resident.
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