Blatstein bought the former Pier Shops from Caesars Entertainment for $2.7 million and reopened it in 2015 as The Playground shopping and entertainment complex. Since then he has added an indoor arcade and go-kart track there.Īnother attempt at non-gambling attractions did not fare so well.
He bought the Showboat, a former casino hotel, from Stockton University in 2016 and operated it as a non-gambling hotel. We all benefit from this.”īlatstein, president of Tower Investments, whose Keystone State projects include the mixed-use Northern Liberties development in Philadelphia, has been particularly active on the non-gambling front in Atlantic City.
We have nine casinos, 300 great restaurants and 20,000 hotel rooms.
“Statistics show people will travel up to seven hours to go to a water park,” he said.
