[twicedead]

It's been the talk of the town for the past few weeks, I know it's been in the press. Not sure if there is an online link to it, but the submission is public knowledge with no design released. I think it came out the same day they banned smoking completely on the casino floor and the wires chose to run with that story. I think I read too or heard on the radio that the Knife and Fork may be relocated since the deal includes the land that it currently occupies. It makes me happy to see this happen since the Pinnacle is waiting it out. Currently there are about $10b in construction planned in AC between now and 2012 with a few more projects on the burner as well.

[AC11]

From the AC press: "Rumors have swirled in recent months that the Claridge might not survive an extensive redevelopment plan that Harrah's has been discussing for Bally's. Linda M. Kassekert, chair of the Casino Control Commission, said she hopes Claridge is saved.
"It's a beautiful building," Kassekert said."

This would be absolutely terrible if the Claridge is brought down by Harrahs.

[Renton]

Read what you guys said. Living in North Jersey, I don't read allot in the Ledger about the latest Construction ideas down in A.C. Anyway, did a google search, and found this article. http://www.atlanticcitytripping.com/cityboom/post.php?p=7

[AC11]

Apparently the lighting scheme on the new Harrah's Tower is complex enough to play video. It is not projected, but actually done with the built in lighting. I saw this first hand about three nights ago. I'd assume they were testing it. Cant wait to see it fully in action. Are there any other buildings that can actually play video on there outer wall anywhere?

[gunsnrosesmz]

Trump Marina to become a ‘Margaritaville’ casino in $316M. sale
By DONALD WITTKOWSKI, Staff Writer, 609-272-7258
Published: Thursday, May 29, 2008




A New York gambling company is buying Atlantic City’s Trump Marina Hotel Casino for $316 million, and will rename it “Margaritaville,” the companies said Thursday.
Edward Lea




2 p.m. Update - ATLANTIC CITY — Trump Marina Hotel Casino is being sold in a $316 million deal that will transform the poorest performing property in Donald Trump’s gaming empire into a “Margaritaville” casino of singer Jimmy Buffett fame.
The buyer is Coastal Marina LLC, an affiliate of Coastal Development LLC, a company headed by former Trump friend turned enemy Richard T. Fields. As part of the Marina sale, Trump has agreed to end a four-year legal battle that accused Fields of cheating him out of developing the Hard Rock casinos with the Seminole Tribe in Florida.

“They’re getting a terrific building in a great location and a wonderful, potential redevelopment site,” Trump said in an interview Thursday morning after the sale was announced.

Fields plans to rebrand the Marina into a Margaritaville concept in partnership with Buffett, the singer-songwriter whose career has enjoyed a resurgence in recent years. Buffet’s 1977 hit song “Margaritaville” reflects the ultimate laid-back lifestyle in a tropical climate.

“Together with Jimmy Buffett’s team at Margaritaville, our plans are to create an exciting new property that we believe will tap its full potential and make it one of the most successful destination gaming resorts in Atlantic City,” Fields said in a statement.


Harrah’s Entertainment Inc., owner of four Atlantic City casinos, is developing the Margaritaville Casino & Resort in Biloxi, Miss., also featuring a Buffett-inspired theme.
Trump Marina has been the subject of sale talks for a number of years, but owner Trump Entertainment Resorts Inc. and its predecessor, Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts Inc., were never able to reach a deal. The bayside casino has been under Trump’s control since it opened in 1985.

“We’ve had many offers for the Marina,” Trump said.

With the underperforming Marina now off his plate, Trump noted that his company will be able to concentrate on the flagship Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort and sister Boardwalk property Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino.

“It’s good to have one less,” he said. “This way, we can focus on the other two.”

Trump said he has no intention of selling the Taj Mahal or Plaza at this time. However, all of the Trump casinos were on the block last year during an aborted sale of the entire company.

“We have been focused on this deal for a while and we’re not thinking of that,” Trump said of the possibility of selling the Taj Mahal or Plaza after the Marina deal is completed.

The Taj Mahal is undergoing an expansion that includes a new $255 million hotel tower. The nearly 800-room addition will open in stages beginning Labor Day weekend, with the full 40 stories ready by the end of the year. The aging Plaza is still awaiting major redevelopment.

Mark Juliano, chief executive officer of Trump Entertainment, said cash from the Marina’s sale strengthens the company’s finances and provides flexibility for development projects in Atlantic City and perhaps elsewhere.

“We are closely evaluating the variety of options before us to create value for our shareholders, including additional development in Atlantic City, reducing the company’s debt, and potential projects to diversify our interests outside of Atlantic City,” Juliano said.

Justin T. Sebastiano, a gaming analyst for Morgan Joseph & Co. Inc., said the sale equates to nearly $20 million per acre for the Marina property. He speculated that the Fields group paid such a high price to rid itself of the Trump litigation in the Hard Rock deal.

“Any way you slice it, Coastal Marina has overpaid for Trump Marina,” Sebastiano wrote in an investment report.

Sebastiano noted that the deal will help prop up Trump Entertainment’s sagging finances and stock price, but he cautioned company shareholders not to expect a dramatic turnaround.

“This is a move in the right direction, but Trump Entertainment still has a long way to go,” he wrote.

In the first quarter this year, Trump Entertainment reported a loss of $18.6 million, or 59 cents per share, compared to a loss of $8.1 million, or 26 cents per share, in the same period last year. At Trump Marina, slot winnings sank 10.6 percent in April.

Hilton Hotels Corp. built the Marina casino in the 1980s, but was denied a gaming license, so Donald Trump personally bought it. He owned it until fall 1996, when he sold it for $485 million to Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts.

Trump Marina, once known as Trump Castle, has been overshadowed by its Marina District neighbors, Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa and Harrah’s Atlantic City. Lacking major improvements, the property is essentially the same one that opened 23 years ago. Trump had talked of giving the Marina a facelift following the company’s exit from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in May 2005.

The Marina’s sale is pending regulatory approval by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission. Sebastiano said regulators are likely to approve the deal because the rebranded casino should generate more business for Atlantic City than the old Trump Marina.

“I’ve enjoyed it for many years and I know they will also,” Trump said of the change in ownership.


http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/185/story/170039.html

[christopher1]

http://www.thenewtaj.com/

[christopher1]

http://www.thenewtaj.com/press.html

[christopher1]

Check out the new taj mahal tower

[christopher1]

http://www.thenewtaj.com/downloads/towerkingkong.jpg

http://www.thenewtaj.com/downloads/uptower.jpg

[christopher1]

http://thenewtaj.com/downloads/detail1tower.jpg

[christopher1]

http://thenewtaj.com/downloads/chairmanSuiteTv.jpg

[christopher1]

http://thenewtaj.com/downloads/chairmanSuiteBath.jpg

http://thenewtaj.com/downloads/chairmanTowerRoomLiving.jpg

http://thenewtaj.com/downloads/lobby.jpg

http://thenewtaj.com/downloads/daytimetower.jpg

[christopher1]

It's been over a week. Any opinions on the new taj tower? I think it looks great! If I go to AC any time soon I am staying there no doubt. The views out over the ocean will be amazing. Also, the views opposite the ocean will also be amazing, looking towards Harrah's and the new MGM site.

[williamphilapa]

http://www.philly.com/philly/business/22570934.html



Posted on Sun, Jun. 29, 2008

A.C. dips its toes in nongaming luxury hotels
By Suzette Parmley

Inquirer Staff Writer

ATLANTIC CITY - Many eyes are upon this resort's newest nongaming attraction, the Water Club, a $400 million luxury hotel that sits next to the Borgata, the city's top-grossing casino.
As top executives from Boyd Gaming Corp. and MGM Mirage - the two companies that built the Borgata and Water Club - and New Jersey politicians took turns at the podium at Friday's ribbon-cutting ceremony here, almost all alluded to the Water Club as where the city needed to venture.

"This means so much for the future of Atlantic City as other states are nipping at our heels with gaming," said Assembly Speaker Joseph Roberts (D., Camden), who came down from Trenton.

High-end hotels with no gambling, like the Water Club, represent a new option at gambling meccas like Las Vegas and Atlantic City. Four more megacasino resorts are planned for Atlantic City over the next four years.

"This type of development activity continues the momentum of the town of rounding out its nongaming amenities," said developer Curtis Bashaw, a partner in one of the nongaming resorts planned to open by 2012. (He is also opening a 330-room luxury boutique hotel next to the Tropicana, the Chelsea, next month.) The $111 million Chelsea, like the Water Club, has no place to gamble, but will offer plenty of beach cabanas and upscale restaurants.

"It just adds depth to the marketplace," Bashaw said. "Atlantic City was a resort for 100 years before it became a gaming town, and now it's letting the past form the future."

But the Water Club is the start of a high-stakes gamble by Atlantic City developers. With gambling available at Pennsylvania slot casinos, and Maryland moving in that direction, and with the huge Connecticut resort-casinos an easy option for residents in New England and the Mid-Atlantic region, Atlantic City needs to appeal to a high-end clientele looking for more than a place to bet.

But the theory has some risky assumptions: That airline travel will be too expensive for Easterners to flock to Vegas, that rising costs of gasoline won't discourage people from driving to Atlantic City, that the billions of dollars of development planned won't create a glut, that a deteriorating economy will get better.

"The Borgata and the Water Club sit as an oasis on their own," said Andrew Zarnett, of Deutsche Bank AG, "but the market itself will be under pressure as it continues to compete with growing slots competition in Pennsylvania."

Michael Pollock, managing director of Spectrum Gaming Group L.L.C., of Linwood, N.J., said: "We believe that people who are watching the Atlantic City market will have to brace themselves. There are a number of challenges ahead."

But diversifying revenue sources is seen as an imperative for Atlantic City.

About 75 percent of Atlantic City's revenue of $5 billion last year came from slot machines and table games. The rest came from nongaming attractions, like the upscale retail malls and celebrity-chef-laden restaurants that now populate the casinos.

The seaside resort desperately needs to follow Las Vegas, which evolved to offer more than slots and table games as California Indian casinos substantially cut into its business.

Today, only 40 percent of Las Vegas' total revenue comes from gambling, according to the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. Before the mid-1990s, gaming revenue accounted for about 90 percent of Sin City's total take.

The Water Club is Atlantic City's latest step toward the new Vegas model.

"It's that kind of attraction," said David G. Schwartz, who is based in Las Vegas and is author of Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling. "The Borgata itself could compete in Las Vegas."

Boyd Gaming and its partner, MGM Mirage, knew immediately they had a winner on their hands with the Borgata. The Water Club was in the planning stage within weeks of Borgata's July 2003 launch, said Larry Mullin, Borgata's chief operating officer and president.

The demand for hotel rooms in Atlantic City, especially in the peak summer season, is insatiable. Mullin estimated that the Borgata was turning down on average 800 to 1,000 patrons a week last year.

But like restaurants and the retail sector, timing is everything, and casinos are no different when it comes to fighting for the consumer's discretionary dollar - which of late has been shrinking.

"There is a big opportunity here in the near term," said Kevin DeSanctis, chief executive officer of Revel Entertainment Group L.L.C., of Atlantic City. "People are looking to stay a little closer to home. I'm hoping Atlantic City takes advantage of it."

DeSanctis has a need to be hopeful. His company is currently building a $2.5 billion megacasino resort with two giant hotel towers on the northern end of the Boardwalk next to the Showboat.

A room in the summertime at the Water Club will cost $300 to $499 on average on weeknights, and $629 on weekends. The hotel's front desk has 10 check-in stations to handle the business.

Initial indicators show there is a market for such luxury. Since June 21, the first weekend that all 800 rooms were available, the Water Club has been sold out.

"I like this," said John Pepe, as he waded for the first time in one of three heated indoor pools at the Water Club last week. Pepe, 67, a Borgata V.I.P. blackjack player from Long Island, stayed at the new hotel for three days and three nights with his wife, Lee, 64. "This is very nice."

Schwartz, who is also director of the Center for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, said the Water Club "will fly on the East Coast."

"There is a market for this, especially with energy prices edging up," he said. "People who want a luxury vacation won't be heading to Vegas.

"It's almost like the Dark Ages returning where people aren't traveling as much by air because of costs," Schwartz added.

Richard Virgilio fits the bill. He drove in from Asbury Park and stayed at the Water Club for two days and one night last week.

"I wanted to get away," said the 35-year-old marketing executive.

The big difference: "I didn't have to go 1,000 miles to get it," he said. "I just had to drive an hour."



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Contact staff writer Suzette Parmley at 215-854-2594 or sparmley@phillynews.com.

[Lincolndrive]

The water club really does look amazing. Hopefully there will be enough demand for these type of projects to continue in AC.

http://www.thewaterclubatborgata.com/

[christopher1]

What do you guys think of the Taj pics? Any thoughts?

[njbeliever777]

i like them. the place looks nice. cant wait to see it in person.

[bryson662001]

What do you guys think of the Taj pics? Any thoughts?

I still think the new tower looks like generic Sim City but at least it isn't offensive like the first one and it's a substansial addition to the skyline. Sure do appreciate the pictures......thanks.

[Xeelee]

The new tower looks a little out of place I think...

[christopher1]

Thanks! I guess its hard to look "in place" with that podium. Maybe the shots of the tower from the street side will look better. Anyone in AC that can take some pics of all the sites???

[AC11]

Here are a couple of shots of Revel and the new Taj tower from today.

http://11floor.com/ACphotos/IMG_0145.jpg
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[AC11]

Here is a shot of the Chelsea from the Boardwalk with the facade improvements at the bottom of the picture.
http://11floor.com/ACphotos/IMG_0142.jpg

These are from the Boardwalk in front of The Dennis at Ballys. They tore down the old, dilapidated strip of shops and have reopened the magnificent Dennis courtyard. They are expanding the Boardwalk back into that space and fixing the brickwork at the bottom of the building. Great to see the restoration of an old building.
http://11floor.com/ACphotos/IMG_0135.jpg
http://11floor.com/ACphotos/IMG_0137.jpg

[twicedead]

Here is a shot of the Chelsea from the Boardwalk with the facade improvements at the bottom of the picture.
http://11floor.com/ACphotos/IMG_0142.jpg

These are from the Boardwalk in front of The Dennis at Ballys. They tore down the old, dilapidated strip of shops and have reopened the magnificent Dennis courtyard. They are expanding the Boardwalk back into that space and fixing the brickwork at the bottom of the building. Great to see the restoration of an old building.
http://11floor.com/ACphotos/IMG_0135.jpg
http://11floor.com/ACphotos/IMG_0137.jpg


I was at the HOB over the weekend and saw the Revel progress and was impressed. It's moving really quickly. All of this is going on while Pinnacle projects stalls.

Pacific Ave may be a nightmare really soon if they don't convert to one way. With anywhere from 2-5 major projects going on at the same time. The mayor is against it but only because the Jitney association is too. Everyone else is pushing for it and will make traffic around town much smoother.

[christopher1]

Great Shots!!!!

Keep em coming!

[njbeliever777]

i love the chelsea and those new shops. very nice. and revel really is progressing quite nicely. its good. any more pics?

[bryson662001]

i love the chelsea and those new shops. very nice. and revel really is progressing quite nicely. its good. any more pics?I always loved the Ocean Club towers........so sexxy.

[christopher1]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3184/2742524140_6b750ebb20.jpg?v=0

[Lecom]

Is Chairman Tower taller than Trump Taj?

[christopher1]

Is Chairman Tower taller than Trump Taj?

Yes, about 50 feet taller.

It is 480' tall.

[twicedead]

This reminded me to mention that MGM has been pushed. Probably until early 2010. I guess that's not really unexpected based on what's been going on, in the credit markets and their major project in Vegas. It was supposed to break ground spring 09.

I've been to the Chelsea and the rooms are great, nice and big with lots of modern amenities. The fifth floor is a lot of fun, but it's going to be tough to be profitable and cater to the crowd they want without a casino revenue. Lets see if they still stock every room with Kiels products by the spring.

They do have a really cool game room, with a LA Athletic Club feel if you've ever been there.

The old Howard Johnson portion isn't open yet and I don't think will for the summer or early fall. I didn't bother to ask anyone but I could see it from the pool area. You can hang out at the pool at night with the cabanas, and open air bar, it has a very nice lounge feel.

[Renton]

Didn't know the Revel Construction started. I'll have to check it out when i'm down there in the next month...

[christopher1]

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/185/story/238369.html

[Scruffy]

first time ever in AC last night. AWESOME!!! The new Taj tower looks very cool. Took a bunch of pics that I'll upload. The new tower at Harrahs was doing this light show that made it look like a 500ft flag waving in the wind. Very cool and high tech. I saw some construction north of Showboat, i just thought it was some condos, i didn't realize that was the Revel site. wish i had made my way up there to get closer pics. Im trying to see if I can get back there in the next couple weeks to get some followup shots.

Very cool place. And much bigger than I thought it'd be.

[MasonsInquiries]

the new taj is gonna' be a real beauty!!!

[Renton]

Might have to rename this thread to non boom. I see in todays Star Ledger that the MGM project is all but canceled. As with most of A.C.'s projects. Only this Revel project is moving ahead.

[Renton]

Might have to rename this thread to non boom. I see in todays Star Ledger that the MGM project is all but canceled. As with most of A.C.'s projects. Only this Revel project is moving ahead.

[Scruffy]

MGM Mirage halts $5 billion Atlantic City project
by Judy DeHaven/The Star-Ledger
Wednesday October 29, 2008, 11:16 AM

The credit crunch has claimed another victim: MGM Mirage's plans for a $5 billion mega-resort in Atlantic City.
AP Photo/MGM Mirage Inc.A rendering of the MGM Grand project in Atlantic City.
http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/new-jersey/atlantic-city/images/s/mgm-grand-atlantic-city.jpg

http://www.atlanticcitytripping.com/images/cityboom/mgm-grand-atlantic-city-sideview.jpg

MGM today said it is halting the project, which would have risen on land next to the Borgata, the glitzy casino the company operates jointly with Boyd Gaming. The announcement came on the same day MGM Mirage reported a 67 percent plunge in third-quarter earnings, largely because of sluggish revenue from its properties on the Las Vegas strip.

"We continue to believe Atlantic City represents an important market for further development," Terry Lanni, MGM's chairman and CEO, said in a statement. "We intend to resume development at such time as economic conditions and capital markets are sufficiently improved to enable us to go forward on a reasonable basis."

[Lincolndrive]

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j214/Lincolndrive/revelclemmyurrayphiladelphiainquire.jpg
photo from Clem Murray of the Philadelphia Inquirer

http://www.philly.com/philly/business/homepage/20081120_Third_casino_project_of_four_now_on_hold.html

[hail2skins]

Apparently Revel is being impacted by the economic woes. They are laying off 400 workers and are stopping work on the resort's interior until they can get additional funding. Construction on the exterior will continue.

[bryson662001]

Apparently Revel is being impacted by the economic woes. They are laying off 400 workers and are stopping work on the resort's interior until they can get additional funding. Construction on the exterior will continue.Someone told me recently that all construction has stopped everywhere, all the casinos are laying off people and every one of them is getting ready to file for bankruptzy. I told her she must be exagerating, but then I haven't been to AC in more than a year myself.

[Renton]

Been reading in the Star Ledger. All projects that haven't started have been postponed or canceled. The Revel project has stopped work at there site. A.C. had its worse year in 2008 since the casino's opened. With the economy continuing to slide, even this new train from NYC to A.C. starting up soon, it won't help much.

[AC11]

Been reading in the Star Ledger. All projects that haven't started have been postponed or canceled. The Revel project has stopped work at there site. A.C. had its worse year in 2008 since the casino's opened. With the economy continuing to slide, even this new train from NYC to A.C. starting up soon, it won't help much.

Revel has not halted construction. The structure and exterior is still going, it is only the interior work that has been halted for now.

[Scruffy]

How tall is Revel currently?

[AC11]

On estimate, in the mid 20th floors, around 300ft

[Renton]

Someone post some pics of it.

[Scruffy]

Got em yesterday. Revel from top down. Give me until tonight or tomorrow morning to post em. Tower 1 is real tall. It looks shorter than it is because its so long. But from a distance (Trump Marina Parking structure) you can tell that it is taller than the Trump Taj Ambassador Tower and about even with the Chairman's tower. The parking stucture for Revel is virtually done, the podium on Oriental Ave is massive. Towers over the tiny 1 family houses on (i think it was Metropolitan). the boardwalk frontage is equal to the frontage of Taj Mahal and Showboat combined. Really large and all wavy reflective glass. There isn't anything like this anywhere else on the boardwalk. Im actually not sure if im a big fan of it. When the sun hits it directly in the sunrise it should be awe inspiring.

Tower 2 has stopped. It hasn't risen at all since the last time i was down in AC in early September. It was a bad choice to even start that tower in my opinion. Wait until you are up and running before you start a second. Borgata waited a couple years before Waterclub came along. That seems to be the better way. Hell look how long it took Taj Mahal to get a second tower. Anyways, im sure that decision will be scrutinized. It was a fun trip, even if I got stopped by the cops for running across Brigantine Ave between Trump Marina and Borgata. They were not jerks, they were polite and were just doing their job. They thought i was taking pics of the bridges instead of the hotels. In my defense though, it AC had built crosswalks or even sidewalks between those three hotels, i would have gladly used them. anyways, gonna go clean up pics and post.

[Scruffy]

Revel-Part 1 of 3

From a distance
From the Borgata
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From Harrahs
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/Scruffy88/new%20cam/IMG_9429.jpg

From Trump Marina
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/Scruffy88/new%20cam/IMG_9461.jpg

The tower is taller than Taj's Ambassador tower and running even with the new Chairman's tower
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[Scruffy]

Revel Part 2 of 3
Western front of the complex

Look how much the base dominates the tiny homes across the street
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The Oriental Ave frontage
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Oriental Ave
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The parking structure almost entirely completed
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Main entrance
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The distance relationship with Showboat
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[Scruffy]

Revel 3 of 3
Boardwalk frontage

The boardwalk frontage is very wavy reflective glass. unlike anything else on the boardwalk.
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You can tell there will be some sort of atrium here with a glass ceiling and an elevator bank at the opening

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The 2nd tower is on the right and is completely stalled out. It was at this height the last time I came to AC 7 months ago
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The enormous Revel boardwalk frontage looking down to the other casinos down south
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The entire Revel boardwalk frontage from the beach
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Possible retail locations on the boardwalk
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/Scruffy88/new%20cam/IMG_9750.jpg

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/Scruffy88/new%20cam/IMG_9751.jpg

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/Scruffy88/new%20cam/IMG_9752.jpg

Revel mixed in with Showboat and both Taj Mahal towers
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/Scruffy88/new%20cam/IMG_9817.jpg

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[Empire Builder]

Amazing - thanks for the updates Scruffy! Glad this project is still progressing

[JACKinNYC]

I estimate 40-42 floors right now, and it looks like it will top out at about 50. A new tallest for AC?

[Scruffy]

Emporis has it pegged at 70 floors. Don't know how reliable that is. If it does hit 70 it absolutely is the new tallest. It'd be the tallest building in Jersey outside of Jersey City. But they might be splitting the floor count like Tropicana does. The Tropicana West tower has floors 1-35 or something like that and the Havana tower's floors are labeled 36-69. Even though it's virtually the same height.

But if you counted 40-42 floors than thats not the case. i don't know. i'm hoping for 70.

[iionev]

There are approximately 50 floors in the tower (the last occupied hotel floor is 47). There are a few mechanical floors above the last floor. The highest point of the tower parapet is somewhere around 700' above the ground.

What you see built for Tower 2 is its base. Parts of the podium (casino,restaurants, hotel lobby, etc) are in the portion that was built. If Revel decides to go ahead with Tower 2 they can build up from this 'base', even if they decide to do this after it opens.

Appreciate these pictures. I worked on this job, but got laid off last year. Its great seeing parts of the building that I sat in meetings and discussed at great lengths actually being built.

[Plokoon11]

Holy cow 700 feet? Trump Chairman Tower is like 450 ft. Comparing that picture with the other towers this will blow it away.

[Renton]

Not bad. I wonder what those people living right there next to the project who didn't take the buy out offers are thinking. They were offered descent market value a few years ago. Now they must be sitting in there now very dark alleyway houses saying, wtf. Haven't been to A.C. since they built the new Trump tower next to the Taj. Man, its allot taller than I thought. Going to be in the 80's this weekend, maybe I'll take a ride down there and check it out.

[Plokoon11]

Anymore pictures? My grandfather told me they completely stopped building.

[toebone7]

i drive by the site every day on my way to work. they are still going vertical. by the looks of it revel is going to top out pretty soon.

[Plokoon11]

we need pictures of this beast.

[toebone7]

revel has topped out. rumblings about them getting the rest of their financing are out.

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/business/20090911_Chinese_builder_signed_to_complete_A_C__casino.html

[Scruffy]

I was there last weekend and got some pics that ill load within a week. it doesn't seem topped out. it looks like its not a flat room. its steps and there are still a little to go on the western edge. you can tell there are many floors but the height doesn't look like 700 feet at all. from the street it does look taller than chairmans but not by much. this may be an optical effect because its so wide that it visually reduces the height

[Plokoon11]

Aww there goes my hopes for it being a monster, but I'll have to see with the pictures. We gotta get this thread rolling people!

[Junkyrddg1]

I was there last weekend and got some pics that ill load within a week. it doesn't seem topped out. it looks like its not a flat room. its steps and there are still a little to go on the western edge. you can tell there are many floors but the height doesn't look like 700 feet at all. from the street it does look taller than chairmans but not by much. this may be an optical effect because its so wide that it visually reduces the height

The concrete portion topped out at elevation 645 ft 6 in on 25 August (the basic ground floor is about elevation 12.0, the sidewalk is about 9.0) and the steel framing that is presently being erected to finish out the parapet walls will extend to elevation 710 ft 6 in. The concrete does step down from North to South, as will the parapet (see the renderings elsewhere in this thread)----it is indeed taller than the Chairman's Tower by a good amount........

[Plokoon11]

Wow man, you made me very excited! ^ AT City's first 700 footer. Thats around the height of Bell Atlantic Tower in Philly.

[Plokoon11]

Has this topped out yet?

[toebone7]

they are putting up the last few beams of the parapet ...its just about topped out... it dominates the skyline. look at how it makes showboat look puny. keep in mind revel is further away from trump at this angle. caught this cellphone pic from the connector today.

http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/7392/1020091726.jpg

[stormkingfan]

Jeez, I've been out of touch! Last time I was in AC, they were at the 20th floor. At least a year ago, I guess.

[Plokoon11]

Poor chairman tower, it was just built and now just looks very small compared to Revel.

[BUILDER5000]

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[BUILDER5000]

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[banned]

Thanks for the (great) updated pics! Haven't been down there in years (when there were pile drivers in the ground)

Lots of progress made. I wonder if they are still planning on leaving an empty shell and finishing the inside later.

[toebone7]

you can see in those pictures of revel that they started taking down one of the cranes, the one closest to the ocean. its just about completely gone now.

[slow-v6]

We stayed in the Harrahs Waterfront tower last weekend ( the new tower) and it was amazing. It looks like they started construction on the Revel 2nd tower. The 1st tower is just about finished. We didnt head down to the boardwalk due to the Cold weather.

[Plokoon11]

Apparently a idea was proposed to put windmills on Steel Pier, they have renderings somewhere but its going to be passed and start soon.

[Plokoon11]

In some news, the crane on Revel collapsed and fell over from the strong winds of the Noreaster rain storm.