The latest Atlantic City casino numbers were just released. Internet gambling and sports betting are doing great. In-person gaming, not so much.
NOTE: Most Internet gaming revenue goes to 3rd party, online gaming platforms.
AC casino in-person gaming revenue. Year-over-year numbers:
- Ocean up 17.3%
- Bally’s up 4.2%
- Tropicana basically flat.
- Golden Nugget down 1%.
- Borgata down 4.5%
- Resorts down 5%
- Hard Rock down 6.5%
- Caesars down 9.6%
- Harrah’s down 10.3%
No longer easy getting customers to drive into Atlantic City as of late.
Experts agree, in-person gaming brings the most benefit to the regional Atlantic City economy. Especially for mom n pops, the small business operators. The non-casino business community.
Foot traffic is essential life blood of non-casino retail, attractions, restaurants and bars in Atlantic City.
Ocean Casino Resort dominating Atlantic City.
Ocean Casino Resort is classy and fun. Easy to park. Great brand offerings. Location is strong, less congested on that end of the Boardwalk.
Bally’s showing signs of a real turn-around while the other 7 casinos languish. All 7 delivered mix of flat to poor results.
Surprising to see Hard Rock slip. Primary focus on ESG initiatives may have played role.
Why in-person gaming revenue decline? Dark and dangerous streets. Boardwalk chaos. Fix that stuff and you might just get back a vibrant business environment in AC.
Crime and dark, unpaved streets in the Tourism District. Boardwalk allows legal, open drinking with the stench of marijuana everywhere.
10 pm curfew siren reminds visitors that Atlantic City still has a major teen crime problem.
Remnants of Summer 2020 BLM riots remain. Empty businesses.
Why keep a needle exchange within the Tourism District?
Borgata and others others fall by similar or even higher numbers than Hard Rock, but you single out ESG as perhaps played a role at Hard Rock?
How about it’s not that nice a place and is basically the same old, decayed venue it replaced with some new paint and carpet?
Perhaps offer SOME semblance of balance in your comments.
Atlantic City continues to hang on but they really blew it with casino gambling.
A new generation of cell phone gamblers seems to be the latest and greatest for the casinos, not so much for the gamblers as they continue to lose.
The city should be much nicer from the generated gambling revenue.
SMH.
One big turnoff: outrageous parking fees. Casinos should reach out to the downbeach crowd and offer reasonable parking rates.
Parking use to be free.
Some still are free but most do charge.
I live about an hour away but still have family there and visit.
Sadly, the old saying about Atlantic City…the last one out, turn off the lights…
I’ve been here for 31 years. Atlantic City Boardwalk…feels very unsafe during the day and extremely uncomfortable walking at night.
So, we stopped going there about 5 years ago.
A shame. All the revenue being brought in by the casinos for so many years.
think it would be at the least, safe to walk.🙁
Never go into Atlantic City. Too dangerous. The state needs to exert even more control over the city and with a heavy hand clean up the crime. Making AC a pot capital is the dumbest thing ever. Just what AC needs, more drugs.