Showboat

And as a local university plans to open hundreds of rooms to students along the main casino strip, advocates for responsible gambling warn that younger minds have a better chance of getting hooked on addictive behaviors.

ATLANTIC CITY— Bart Blatstein, the Philadelphia developer who's been buying up distressed Atlantic City properties and re-opening them, has added three more Boardwalk parcels for about $6 million. Blatstein, who last year reopened the former Showboat casino as a non-gambling hotel, has added land nearby as part of the future development of the site...

An Atlantic City casino that went out of business two years ago is reopening as a hotel.

An Atlantic City casino that went out of business two years ago is set to reopen as a hotel.

The shuttered Showboat casino hotel will reopen next month -- this time as a non-gambling hotel, a developer said Friday.

The $23 million sale of Atlantic City's former Showboat casino to Philadelphia developer Bart Blatstein has been completed.

Restrictions on how Atlantic City's former Showboat casino can be used would be eliminated under a bill moving through the New Jersey Legislature.

Philadelphia developer Bart Blatstein says he is considering re-opening Atlantic City's former Showboat as a casino.

Records show Stockton University has spent nearly $8 million on the now-closed Showboat Casino since the school purchased the Atlantic City property last December.

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) -- Stockton University cast a wide net of blame Tuesday for its failed efforts to turn a former casino into a satellite campus, even as it seeks new buyers for the property. It released a report that assigned blame to many parties, including a former university president who failed to let the board know of a legal deal-breaker that had not been resolved...