Jane Bokunewicz, coordinator of a gambling and tourism institute at Stockton University, said Bally's has an opportunity to reintroduce itself to a market that has known it since 1979. We are extremely confident we will bring this property back to a respectable place.” “We have a mission to bring this place up to the standard we have set for ourselves wherever we operate. “Things were in bad shape,” said Juliano, an Atlantic City native who is the company's executive vice president of casino operations and chief marketing officer. Last November, it promised New Jersey gambling regulators it would invest at least $90 million into the casino-hotel over the next five years. The company owns 14 casinos, with acquisitions in Las Vegas and Pennsylvania awaiting approval by regulators.īally's Atlantic City is a big part of those plans. The company later bought the Bally's name, and embarked on a buying spree of gambling, technology, and content companies in its quest to become a perfectly integrated mix of in-person and online gambling and entertainment. Bally's for years had been a lesser priority of former owners Caesars Entertainment, which lavished attention and reinvestment cash on two higher-profile Atlantic City casinos, Harrah's and Caesars.ĪC Electric union workers strike, utility promises no disruptions in service What Bally's intends to do is nothing short of bringing a comatose casino back to life in perhaps the most cutthroat gambling market in America. Under this leadership, this place will sparkle.” “By the middle of July, every window in that grand, iconic hotel tower that was fixed in a blue color will be rose. “I said, ‘That’s it,” recalled Juliano, an executive with the casino's new owners, a Rhode Island based company that used to be called Twin River but has since adopted the Bally's name for the entire company.

What he saw annoyed him greatly, everywhere a broken window had once been. Walking along the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, he looked up at the glass-encased tower of what once was the hottest and most successful casino in the seaside gambling resort. Or more accurately, rose-colored glass flecked with jarringly out-of-place blue squares. Phil Juliano was looking at Bally's casino through rose-colored glass.

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