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The Trump Plaza Hotel is the latest in Atlantic City to announce plans to shut its doors. The Press of Atlantic City said in a story posted online late on Friday that an official from Trump Plaza called New Jersey state Senator Jim Whelan and told him the casino, which is owned by Trump Entertainment Resorts, meadowlands plaza hotel expected to issue layoff notices meadowlands plaza hotel this week ahead of a Sept. 16 closure.
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The seashore meadowlands plaza hotel casino is one of the poorest performers in Atlantic City, which began the year with 12 casinos. Trump Plaza booked less than half its rooms in the first quarter of 2014, and had the lowest gaming revenue of any of the city’s casinos in May, according to state documents obtained by Reuters.
The Atlantic Club casino owned by Colony Capital filed for bankruptcy reorganization last fall and was sold and shut down in January. Ownership of the 807-room hotel/casino reverted to Caesars Entertainment, which had sold it to Colony Capital.
Caesars then sold it to TJM Property Management of Clearwater, Florida, for just $14.25 million in May of this year. TJM operates its hotels under the Sette-McCarthy Hotels name and is planning a grand re-opening for some time this year.
Then last month, Caesars Entertainment announced it will close Showboat Atlantic City next month and layoff 2,140 workers. Showboat is a 1.05 million-square-foot hotel casino built in 1999 at 801 Boardwalk. The property contains 108,900 square feet of casino space and 1,330 rooms.
Revel Casino Hotel is Atlantic City’s newest and most spacious casino resort and convention destination. The casino resort offers 130,000 square feet of world class gaming, and 1,399 ocean view rooms.
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The filings also noted how the devastation of Hurricane Sandy exacerbated the situation. The Revel Casino Resort was forced meadowlands plaza hotel to close for six days after a mandatory evacuation was ordered and state of emergency declared for Atlantic County. The lost revenue from the closure, along with the prolonged impact on travel to Atlantic City and the financial hardship experienced by residents in the area, significantly impacted the company’s earnings, the filings stated.
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In addition, the national casino entertainment business has become more highly competitive with the opening or expansion of casinos in markets outside of Atlantic City and Las Vegas. Casinos in New Jersey face increased competition from the expansion of legalized gaming operations in Maryland, New York and Pennsylvania.
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