'We're another part of that entertainment. 26.īlackhurst, who was mayor of Las Vegas in the 1990s as the city began transforming itself from a gambling mecca to an entertainment and convention center with broader appeal, said Atlantic City's slump gives her no worries about the Baltimore project. Caesars also leads the corporate group that plans to open the Horseshoe Casino Baltimore on Aug. 'Atlantic City is in the process of determining what it wants to do to become a destination,' said Jan Jones Blackhurst, executive vice president of government relations and communication for Caesars Entertainment Corp., which owns the Showboat and three other Atlantic City casinos. Too late for the Atlantic Club, which closed in January and for the Showboat, which plans to shut down next month and for Trump Plaza and the Revel, which are expected to close in September if no one buys them.
Everybody's finally starting to realize that, but it's too late.' 'The problem is, that 'build it and they will come' mentality works,' but only until more casinos are built closer to where your far-flung customers live, said Woinski, whose company publishes newsletters on the gambling industry.
