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Revel Entertainment's Atlantic City Resort

A few weeks ago I mentioned the MGM Grand's big plans for Atlantic City, NJ. Their multibillion dollar resort is far from the only game in town. Another huge project, this one from Revel Entertainment just got preliminary site plan approval from the city planning board. The project includes two towers with almost 2,000 rooms each and a large casino exceeding 168,000 square feet. The project is estimated to cost in the $2 to $2.5 billion range and will welcome visitors with Revel Beach, a sandy area at the far corner of the complex next to the boardwalk that will feature a nightclub, retail space and dining options. The project also includes a 5,000-seat event center and another 600-seat theater as well as a spa and fitness center with indoor and outdoor swimming pools. The first phase is expected to open in 2010.

Gallery: Revel Resort

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MGM Goes Big In Atlantic City

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels

Atlantic City is on the rise again with a new massive plan from the MGM Mirage. The project, which could run up to $5 billion, includes three hotel towers with more than 3,000 rooms, the largest casino floor in the state, a theater, spa, convention center and retail space. There may be a residential component at a later date. The resort will also be the city's tallest building. Pending state approval, they plan to break ground on the project next year and it should be completed in 2012. This project will likely be called City Center East and it is the companion project to the huge project currently underway in Las Vegas.

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The $1,000 Brownie

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Filed under: Dining

In Atlantic City, you can eat dessert or you can eat Dessert. The dessert-centered restaurant Brulee at the Tropicana offers three pricey selections off their crystal menu. Each dessert is the centerpiece of a three part menu that includes an amuse sucree, the dessert and petit fours. The desserts include an arabesque and a mille-nuits each served on Baccarat crystal. The most decadent dish might be the Brownie Extraordinaire with Saint Louis which sells for $1,000. It is a chocolate brownie with Italian hazelnuts, ice cream and a St. Louis crystal atomizer containing 1996 Quinta do Noval Nacional Port. It sells for $1,000 and you get to keep the atomizer. Personally, I'd just rather have a full bottle of the Port which can be found for half that.

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The Borgata's Massive Expansion Plans

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Filed under: Dining, Luxury Travel & Hotels, Spas

The Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa, the resort that has made Atlantic City popular again has announced the second phase of its two-part expansion project. The $325 million hotel tower will be called The Water Club at Borgata. The new location has views of both the Atlantic Ocean and the bays and will have four pools. The hotel includes 800 rooms and suites, three residences, retail shops and a two-story, 36,000-square-foot "spa in the sky" with 25 treatment rooms. The tower is planned to open in the fourth quarter of 2007. The first phase of Borgata's expansion is a $200 million extension of the casino, a new nightclub, a food court called The Cafeteria and three fine dining restaurants. The three restaurants are Bobby Flay Steak which will be a Western steakhouse with a Lobster Bar that features a handmade cast glass bar front and lobster tanks. Wolfgang Puck American Grille which will offer Puck's classic comfort good gone luxe including sandwiches, pizza and pasta. Michael Mina will be making his East Coast debut with Seablue, a fish restaurant that will include "whimsical versions of classic American dishes" such as Maine lobster pot pie with truffled lobster cream and seasonal vegetables, lobster corn dogs with whole grain mustard, and desserts like Lemon Pudding Cake with creamsicle float and Chocolate Molten Cake with root beer float (sounds like a strange menu to me). The new restaurants will open later this year.

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