Thursday, July 14, 2005

ATLANTIC CITY Moves Closer To LAS VEGAS

(From The USA Today -- By Gene Sloan)

The transformation of ATLANTIC CITY continues.

Two years after the opening of the much-ballyhooed BORGATA HOTEL CASINO AND SPA, the city's first LAS VEGAS-STYLE MEGA-RESORT, the long down-at-the-heels gambling getaway welcomes a LAS-VEGAS-SIZE ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX overseen by THE HOUSE OF BLUES.

Making its debut this weekend with EMINEM and COUNTING CROWS concerts, THE HOUSE OF BLUES complex is the chain's largest. It has a 2,500-capacity music hall, a themed restaurant, members-only club and the first HOUSE OF CLUES casino floor. There's also a 35-table poker room designed to host WORLD SERIES OF POKER events.

HOUSE OF BLUES' only location in THE NORTHEAST, attached to THE SHOWBOAT CASINO on THE ATLANTIC CITY BOARDWALK, is just the latest in a steady stream of the VEGAS-STYLE nightspots, restaurants and stores that are opening in the wake of BORGATA's successful debut in July 2003. The casino has smashed revenue records set by the city's 11 other casinos and is credited with drawing a hipper, younger crowd to the city.

For more information about THE HOUSE OF BLUES at THE ATLANTIC CITY BOARDWALK, call 609-236-2583 or visit www.hob.com.

Atlantic City Moves Closer To Las Vegas

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