In addition to 900 of the facility’s 1,600 useable hotel rooms being open that day, Straub said Revel will offer a rope-climbing course a zip-line ride an e-sports lounge where fans of online games can follow skilled players 13 beachfront cabanas, and the conversion of part of the parking garage into a 13-story bicycle endurance course. He laid out an ambitious schedule for the debut of amenities beginning next Wednesday. Straub, a polo-playing millionaire from Florida, originally cycled through a series of offbeat ideas for the site that included a medical tourism facility, a so-called “genius academy” where the world’s top minds would tackle society’s problems, an equestrian facility and even a temporary home for Syrian refugees. It was one of four Atlantic City casinos to close that year.

The casino went bankrupt twice under staggering amounts of debt that it never came close to paying, and shut down in September 2014.

It had high hopes of turning around Atlantic City’s declining casino market but it never caught on with gamblers. Revel opened in 2012 just as the stock market and the economy crashed. But he did give a hint, saying, “We have some Asian painters coming up with the artwork.” Straub won’t yet say what the new endeavor will be called.

Kerry Langan, a spokeswoman for the state Division of Gaming Enforcement, said the division is working with Straub’s company and its attorney “to secure all appropriate licenses and authorizations.” In an interview with The Associated Press, Straub would not identify the casino operator, saying it is receiving the final state approvals needed to run a casino. There is not yet a phone number or website for the new resort. He said people who learn the resort is open are welcome to check in. They will be occupied mostly by guests of a company he is hiring to operate the casino, which Straub hopes to have open by late August. Glenn Straub, who bought the $2.4 billion resort from bankruptcy court last year for $82 million - or about 5 cents on the dollar - said Thursday that 900 hotel rooms will open on Wednesday.

(AP Photo/Wayne Parry)ĪTLANTIC CITY - Revel, Atlantic City’s most spectacular casino flop, will begin to reopen Wednesday under new ownership that views gambling as only a tiny piece of the action. On Thursday June 9, 2016, Glenn Straub, the facility's new owner, said he will begin to reopen the resort, which shut down in 2014, under a different name on June 15, adding the casino portion could be open by late August. This Jphoto shows the exterior of the former Revel casino in Atlantic City, N.J.

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