Next Met Gala theme unveiled: The ‘sleeping beauties' of fashion It's too new, too pretty.' It's hard to believe.' 'Then we started hearing rumors, but I thought, 'No way this place is going to close. We had high hopes,' said Liditze Diaz, a restaurant worker at Revel. It never lived up to the hype as the resort town's 'Next Big Thing.'
Kim Guadagno in a blueberry smoothie toast, quietly ended operations in the early morning darkness as the last handful of gamblers, who never turned out in great enough numbers to keep Revel alive, filed out of the sleek glass tower. The property that debuted at sunrise on April 2, 2012, with its then-president joining New Jersey Lt. But the $2.4 billion resort shut down Tuesday as its casino closed one day after the hotel checked out its last guest. Revel Casino Hotel opened a little more than two years ago amid high hopes of turning around Atlantic City's struggling casino market. Someone left a bouquet of flowers on the front steps from the boardwalk - a sign of another death of an Atlantic City resort.Ītlantic City's newest casino - and its biggest, costliest flop - went out with barely a whimper. In the final moments of Atlantic City's $2.4 billion gamble, the doors to the Revel were chained off as the failed casino took its final bets early Tuesday.
