“I remember speaking to someone on that Saturday night who was questioning if a closing was really imminent - a nd then just like that, it was ,” Ocean Casino Resort CEO Terry Glebocki said. Phil Murphy for all nine casinos to close as of Monday evening, March 16. Those “moving goalposts” included a sudden order from Gov. “All of the operators kind of have been able to turn on a dime and react to some of the moving goalposts,” Caesars executive Jim Ziereis said during a Stockton University-led panel called “The Jersey Shoreview: Fall Tourism and Business Panel Discussion.”

Supreme Court ruling that opened the door for such legal gambling anywhere in the U nited States.īeyond that, the spring and summer have always served as the bellwether months for the casinos ever since Resorts C asino Hotel opened its doors in 1978 as the first casino outside of Nevada.īut, as the calendar turned to fall, for a variety of reasons the city’s casino industry held up better than most in New Jersey in the wake of the devastating effects of the pandemic. The South Jersey tourism destination was about to reap the benefits of large gatherings for the annual NCAA men’s basketball “March Madness” tournament, with a second year of legal sports betting at each casino in the wake of a mid-2018 U.S. Social distancing has been enforced at Atlantic City casinos since they reopened July 4 weekend.

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