That is putting almost 8,000 people total out of work. Four of the twelve casinos with which Atlantic City started the year will have closed by the middle of September. More than 5,000 employees at the Showboat and Revel Casinos lost their jobs as both places closed this weekend. Moving trucks line up outside the Revel Casino on Septemin Atlantic City, New Jersey. The massive contraction, following years of customer losses to surrounding states, is eliminating 8,000 jobs, or about a quarter of the industry’s employment in Atlantic City. The Trump Plaza, which opened on May 14, 1984, shut down September 16, 2014, the fourth casino to shutter its doors this year, and a fifth casino, the Trump Taj Mahal, may close if it cannot cut costs of operation.

People walk on the boardwalk near the Trump Plaza Casino Septemin Atlantic City, New Jersey. The Trump Plaza, which opened on May 14, 1984, shut down September 16, the fourth casino to shutter its doors this year, and a fifth casino, the Trump Taj Mahal, may close if it cannot cut costs of operation. (Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images)Ī sign, left by the staff of 24 Central Cafe inside theTrump Plaza Casino, thanks their customers Septemin Atlantic City, New Jersey.

People walk down the boardwalk Septemin Atlantic City, New Jersey. Atlantic Club Casino Hotel was shuttered in January. The Showboat Casino Hotel, a Caesars Entertainment Corp property, was shut down on Sunday morning, and Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino is due to close in mid-September. The city’s newest casino and arguably its biggest failure, the $2.4 billion Revel Casino Hotel, is in its second bankruptcy after opening in 2012. A third of Atlantic City’s casinos have closed or soon plan to. Four Atlantic City casinos are closing this year, but not all of their gamblers will return to visit eight others that have survived in the down-on-its-luck New Jersey resort. People walk on the boardwalk in front of the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey September 1, 2014.

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