Hard Rock bought it in March 2017 after repeatedly testing the waters in Atlantic City. His friend and fellow billionaire Carl Icahn shuttered the Taj Majal in 2016, after failing to reach a labor agreement with Atlantic City's main casino workers' union. The Taj Mahal went bankrupt within a year of Trump's opening, and Trump lost control of it in a subsequent bankruptcy years later when bondholders took over. The resort plans to offer internet gambling and sports betting, if it is legalized. The casino will have no debt, being self-financed by Hard Rock and its local investment partners, Allen said. Carrie Underwood (June 29) and Pitbull (June 30) will be the first acts to perform there. That will fund over 300 nights of live music, comedy and drama. The casino has budgeted $30 million for entertainment in its first year, Allen said. Woman ran into raging NJ house fire to get her pets. 'It'll be a boost for the reinvention of Atlantic City.' 'What we have in store is going to blow people away,' said Jon Lucas, chief operating officer of Hard Rock International.

Casino officials say Hard Rock has received 50,000 applications for 4,000 jobs.

Together, the new casinos will restore as many as 6,500 of the 11,000 jobs Atlantic City lost when five of its 12 casinos went out of business since 2014.

The casino is set to reopen on June 28 - the same day as another shuttered Boardwalk casino, the former Revel property, that will open as the Ocean Resort Casino.

It is reopening the former Trump Taj Mahal. The Casino Control Commission granted a license to Hard Rock, the worldwide hotel, gambling and entertainment company owned by Florida's Seminole Indian tribe. Hard Rock had an easy time with New Jersey gambling regulators on Wednesday, gaining a license to reopen a casino and begin Atlantic City's recovery from a string of gambling hall closures on a property that President Donald Trump once hailed as 'the eighth wonder of the world.'

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