A casino worker walks out of The Boardwalk entrance to the Revel Hotel Casino early Tuesday, Sept. 2

Casino workers and customers walk out of The Revel Hotel Casino together early in the morning Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014, in Atlantic City, N.J. The casino section of the Revel closed at 6:30 a.m.Tuesday. Revel is shutting down a little over two years after opening with high hopes of revitalizing Atlantic City s struggling gambling market. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
Casino workers and customers walk out of The Revel Hotel Casino together early in the morning Tuesday, car rental deals for utah Sept. 2, 2014, in Atlantic City, N.J. The casino section of the Revel closed at 6:30 a.m.Tuesday. Revel is shutting down a little over two years after opening with high hopes of revitalizing Atlantic City s struggling gambling market. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
A casino worker secures a plastic chain across The Boardwalk entrance to the Revel Hotel Casino early Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014, in Atlantic City, N.J. The casino section of the Revel closed at 6:30 a.m.Tuesday. Revel is shutting down a little over two years after opening with high hopes of revitalizing Atlantic City s struggling car rental deals for utah gambling market. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
People walk on the beach near The Boardwalk entrance to the Revel Hotel Casino early Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014, in Atlantic City, N.J. The casino section of the Revel closed at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday. Revel is shutting down a little over two years after opening with high hopes of revitalizing Atlantic City s struggling gambling market. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
A casino worker walks out of The Boardwalk entrance to the Revel Hotel Casino early Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014, in Atlantic City, N.J. The casino car rental deals for utah section of the Revel closed at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday. Revel is shutting down a little over two years after opening with high hopes of revitalizing Atlantic City s struggling gambling market. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
A damaged letter R and a missing letter E are seen on The Boardwalk sign for the closing Revel Casino Hotel, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014, in Atlantic City, N.J. The most spectacular and costly failure in Atlantic City s 36-year history of casino gambling began to play out Monday when the $2.4 billion Revel Casino Hotel emptied its hotel. Its casino will close early Tuesday morning. Revel is shutting down a little over two years after opening with high hopes of revitalizing Atlantic City s struggling gambling market. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)
The property that debuted at sunrise on April 2, 2012, with its then-president joining car rental deals for utah New Jersey Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno in a blueberry smoothie toast, quietly ended operations as the last handful of gamblers, who never turned out in great enough numbers car rental deals for utah to keep Revel alive, filed out of the sleek glass tower.
When I started, it was promising. We had high hopes, said Liditze Diaz, a restaurant worker at Revel. Then we started hearing rumors, but I thought, No way this place is going to close. It s too new, too pretty. car rental deals for utah It s hard to believe.
car rental deals for utah Revel became the second Atlantic City casino to shut down over Labor Day weekend, joining the Showboat, which closed its doors Sunday afternoon. Trump Plaza is closing on Sept. 16, and the Atlantic Club closed in January.
Atlantic City, which started the year with 12 casinos, will have eight before summer is over. Many casino analysts car rental deals for utah and industry executives say they expect the remaining casinos to fare better financially with less competition.
It s a shame, said Ruthie Fenimore of Warren, New Jersey, one of the last gamblers to play at Revel on Tuesday. I really love this place. This place would be perfect if it was in Las Vegas. It would be right up there with Wynn. All the restaurants were awesome and HQ is the best nightclub I ve ever been to in New Jersey. I remember the first time I came here, I was lying on the bed opening and closing the curtains with a remote control. It blew my mind. The bathroom was bigger than my home.
Revel had been slated to close at 6 a.m., but staff shut it down 35 minutes early, pulling yellow chains across its entrances, and herding the small handful of gamblers that remained inside toward the doors. A pre-recorded announcement programmed in advance blared through loudspeakers car rental deals for utah precisely at 6 a.m., saying Attention: Revel Casino is now closed. Immediately, lights began snapping off inside the glass-covered building, built to appear as it if had been sculpted by waves.
But Revel had gone mostly dark hours earlier. Its hotel, shaped like the 1950s cartoon character Gumby, was closed on Monday, car rental deals for utah and it was virtually invisible in the early morning darkness. The iconic ball atop the building, designed by the son of actor Frank Gorshin, car rental deals for utah who played The Riddler on the Batman TV series, was also turned off, and the only illumination was two emergency red lights at the very top of the structure to warn away approaching aircraft.
The casino broke ground just before the Great Recession. It ran out of money halfway through construction and had to drop its plans for a second hotel tower while scrambling for the remaining $1 billion or so it needed to finish the project. When it opened, it was so laden with debt that it couldn t bring in enough revenue to cover it.