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The Atlantic Club Casino Hotel, formerly known as Golden Nugget, Bally's Grand,'' ''Atlantic City Hilton and ACH, was a casino and hotel located at the southern end of the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey, owned and operated by Colony Capital. It was the city's first and only "locals casino". The Atlantic Club permanently closed on January 13, 2014, at 12:01 AM. largely as a result of dwindling casino visitors to Atlantic City due to increased competition in neighboring states. A third of Atlantic City's boardwalk casinos closed the same year, the others being Revel, Trump Plaza, and Showboat. Redevelopment proposals include a water park.〔http://www.nj.com/atlantic/index.ssf/2015/06/water_parks_planned_at_former_atlantic_city_boardwalk_casino.html#incart_river〕〔http://www.nj.com/atlantic/index.ssf/2015/07/one_of_the_biggest_water_parks_in_the_country_approved_for_former_ac_casino.html#incart_river〕 On November 6, 2013, Atlantic Club owner (Resorts International Holdings, owned by Colony Capital) filed for bankruptcy 11 protection and a source revealed to the ''Wall Street Journal'' that a bankruptcy sale would occur. On December 23, 2013, Federal Bankruptcy Judge Gloria M. Burns approved the sale of Atlantic Club to Caesars Entertainment Corporation and Tropicana Entertainment.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=After Atlantic Club sale, who's next in A.C.? )〕 Tropicana acquired the gaming equipment and the data records of customers from Atlantic Club. Caesars acquired the Real estate and non-gaming assets.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Demise of Atlantic Club may be felt most by workers )〕 Caesars indicated that the closure is by its current owner, Colony Capital.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Caesars Entertainment Agrees To Acquire Non-Gaming Assets Of Atlantic Club in Bankruptcy Auction )〕 This returned ownership of the property to Caesars Entertainment, which sold it nine years before to Colony Capital as part of its acquisition by Harrah's Entertainment.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Harrah's, Caesars Sign Agreement to Sell Four Casinos to Colony Capital )〕 ==History== The Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino was built in 1980 by a partnership of Golden Nugget Companies and Michael R. Milken for $140 million. Steve Wynn bought the Strand Motel on Boston Avenue and the Boardwalk for $8.5 million and tore it down. Joel Bergman, who designed Wynn's other resorts, designed the Golden Nugget. It was Atlantic City's sixth casino after legalized gambling was passed in 1976. It had 506 rooms and at the time was the second smallest casino in the city. By 1983 it was the city's top earning casino. Its entertainment in the 500-seat Opera House included Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Dolly Parton, Lou Rawls and Don Rickles. Advertisements featured Wynn, including one where he delivered towels to Sinatra.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=AC History - Casino Connection Atlantic City )〕 It was Wynn's first major casino after establishing his reputation with resurrecting the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas. He had high-profile squabbles with state officials, and in 1987 he sold the casino for $440 million to Bally Manufacturing, which changed the name to Bally's Grand Hotel and Casino. Frustrated with state gaming regulators, Wynn publicly vowed he would never return to Atlantic City, though he had hedged his rhetoric with the purchase of an area by the Atlantic City Marina. Wynn left Atlantic City to build the Mirage Casino in Las Vegas that heralded the modern transformation of the Las Vegas Strip. After the Hilton Hotels Corporation acquired Bally Entertainment, the property was renamed Atlantic City Hilton. In 1998, Hilton Corporation spun off its casino properties into a new company initially called Park Place Entertainment. In 2000 Nicholas L. Ribis, in partnership with Colony Capital, LLC bought the poorly-performing Resorts Atlantic City for $140 million and created Resorts International Holdings. Then, in 2005, they set out to buy four casino properties across the U.S., including the Atlantic City Hilton, for a combined total of $1.24 billion. Through December 2009, Resorts Atlantic City and Atlantic City Hilton were managed as a single entity named "Atlantic City Hilton and Resorts Atlantic City", whose president was Anthony Rodio. On December 10, 2009, it was announced that Resorts International wasn't able to pay the mortgage for the Resorts Atlantic City property and made a deal to have the loan canceled and surrender the property to RAC Atlantic City Holdings L.L.C.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lenders and Resorts Atlantic City agree to takeover deal )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Atlantic Club Casino Hotel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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