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'When I started, it was promising. We had high hopes,' said Liditze Diaz, a restaurant worker at Revel. 'Then we started hearing rumors, but I thought, 'No way this place is going to close. It's too new, too pretty.' It's hard to believe.'
Revel became the second Atlantic City casino to shut down over Labor Day weekend, joining the Showboat, which closed its doors Sunday afternoon.
Trump Plaza is closing on September 16, and the Atlantic Club closed in January.
Atlantic City, which started the year with 12 casinos, will have eight before summer is over. Many casino analysts and industry executives say they expect the remaining casinos to fare better financially with less competition.
The idea behind Revel was to open a totally different resort, a seaside pleasure palace that just happened to have a casino as one of its features.
That included Atlantic City's only total smoking ban, which alienated many gamblers; the lack of a buffet and daily bus trips to and from the casino; and the absence of a players' club.
By the time those decisions were reversed, it was already too late. High room and restaurant prices hurt, too.
'They had to bring people in — give the customer what they want — and they weren't doing that,' said Aubrey Becht, a slots attendant. 'They wanted the high-limit people, and there's not too many of those.'
Revel shut down a little over two years after opening with high hopes of revitalizing Atlantic City's struggling gambling market.
But mired in its second bankruptcy in two years, Revel has been unable to find anyone willing to buy the property and keep it open as a casino. It has never turned a profit.
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