| Thousands of Lost Atlantic City Casino Jobs Are Coming Back |
Thousands of Atlantic City casino jobs lost during a brutal three-year stretch when five casinos shut down are coming back.
Since 2014, casino closings eliminated 11,000 jobs and devastated the economy of the Atlantic City region. But for many laid-off workers, the first step on the road to recovery started Tuesday, when the shuttered former Trump Taj Mahal casino began interviewing job applicants for its reincarnation this summer as a Hard Rock casino resort.
The event was for former Taj employees. About 1,600 such workers were invited to apply for jobs, and 1,400 did. Hard Rock plans additional job recruiting events in the coming weeks for people who applied online and did not necessarily work at the Taj Mahal.
“This is the first brush stroke of the renaissance,” said Matt Harkness, president of the Hard Rock, which plans to open this summer.
The casino will create more than 3,000 jobs. And it will be joined by another shuttered casino that’s reopening its doors this summer: The former Revel casino, which closed in 2014, will reopen as the Ocean Resort casino, adding thousands more jobs.
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