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Agree. I spent a couple of days there with the kids and it is quite obvious that there is much untapped potential.
The casinos are built to keep people inside (great in the depths of winter) but the boardwalk and beach are utterly wasted. Fix up the boardwalk, live music, outdoor restaurants, beachside food, rides for the kids. Atlantic City could really be a fun place to spend a week at the shore. Add in some babysitting and kids clubs so the adults can have some "me time" in the evenings and it could easily be THE place to go for the summer.
As the tourist come and increase, businesses will have more money and they will open up a few blocks away from the shore. Then houses are bought for rentals, etc.... A lot of the growth and improvement would be organic.
Agreed. 100%. Also, I'm in my 20s and while A.C. is a popular place to go for peoples' birthdays, or just for a night out, nobody seems to ever gamble. It's all about the restaurants, bars and clubs. I'm not sure if young people are particularly into gambling.
A.C. has to realize that the days of buses full of seniors playing the slots are almost over and they have to see gambling as one of a number of attractions rather than the sole attraction.
Agreed. 100%. Also, I'm in my 20s and while A.C. is a popular place to go for peoples' birthdays, or just for a night out, nobody seems to ever gamble. It's all about the restaurants, bars and clubs. I'm not sure if young people are particularly into gambling.
A.C. has to realize that the days of buses full of seniors playing the slots are almost over and they have to see gambling as one of a number of attractions rather than the sole attraction.
Yup. And as a parent I'd like to give the kids their beach/rides time but still have a chance to do grown up things on vacation, which includes nice restaurants and an evening at a concert. I'm not a gambler, but I'd throw in an hour at a table just to round out the evening.
What Atlantic City REALLLYYY needs, and what developers in NJ need to do, is STOP TRYING TO IMITATE THINGS!!! . . . It needs to have a more diverse tourist base and more non-gambling destinations (like 66nexus said) so that a broader spectrum of people have more things to spend time and money on.
While I agree with both sentences there, achieving the latter would make it more like Vegas, and that's the direction it's been headed in, successfully so far, in my opinion, but it would be nice to speed things up a bit.
While I agree with both sentences there, achieving the latter would make it more like Vegas, and that's the direction it's been headed in, successfully so far, in my opinion, but it would be nice to speed things up a bit.
This is true, but it would also make it more like every other tourist destination in that there is a variety of options.
i think a.c. will come back with balance some gaming & being kid freindly teenager spend billion"s nowadays.theres ways to make money. stop riping people off clean the rooms. make it family freindly.they have wonderful resturants' beaches' if they care they will come togther and fix it.because i really care been going all my life..
By the way, many of the comments regarding the Pennsylvania casinos fail to realize one thing. I can drive an hour to Mt. Airy or the Sands to play poker. Or I can drive 2 1/2 hours to Atlantic City. The gambling experience in Atlantic City is way more fun. The rake is also less. So while I will occasionally gamble in Pennsylvania, I still enjoy my trips to Atlantic City. Many of my fellow players feel the same way.
Oh, and when I stay in any number of hotels along the Boardwalk, my daily jog takes me through many of the interior neighborhoods off the boardwalk. No problemo at all. I feel totally safe, it's mostly working class families and their kids.
The only area that is bad is around the housing projects. And THAT is one way to improve Atlantic City. Eliminate all housing projects. The government should not be providing housing to anyone ever. When it does, trouble and crime follow close behind. I would like all public housing eliminated. That would also improve the deficit and improve crime rates. What belongs to "everyone" belongs to no one. And maintenance levels in government housing projects reflect that reality wherever and whenever they are built.
The only area that is bad is around the housing projects. And THAT is one way to improve Atlantic City. Eliminate all housing projects. The government should not be providing housing to anyone ever. When it does, trouble and crime follow close behind. I would like all public housing eliminated. That would also improve the deficit and improve crime rates. What belongs to "everyone" belongs to no one. And maintenance levels in government housing projects reflect that reality wherever and whenever they are built.
When we eliminate $200M public subsidies to finance failed experiments like A.C. and that disaster R.E. project in the Meadowlands, then I guess we could look at eliminating public housing.
The only area that is bad is around the housing projects. And THAT is one way to improve Atlantic City. Eliminate all housing projects. The government should not be providing housing to anyone ever. When it does, trouble and crime follow close behind. I would like all public housing eliminated. That would also improve the deficit and improve crime rates. What belongs to "everyone" belongs to no one. And maintenance levels in government housing projects reflect that reality wherever and whenever they are built.
As someone that was there from 1979 to 1987 for the original construction, I have long maintained that they SHOULD have lined up bull dozers at the City line and scraped towards the inlet.
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