The renovation of Bally’s Atlantic City hotel rooms is slated to begin on Sept. 17, a company official testified at a recent public hearing of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission.
But amid numerous other details offered about the now $100 million in promised upgrades, Bally’s executives at the all-day hearing also had to respond to some good old-fashioned blunt observations by commission leaders.
Take Vice Chair Alisa Cooper, who noted: “This is a building that’s over 40 years old. I don’t say that with any disrespect. It was opened in 1979. I know over the years improvements have been made, updates, et cetera.
“But it’s still 40 years old. It’s a big building. My concern is, moving forward, do you have sufficient resources to — if you run a little short on the capital expenditures that — you know, it’s not, ‘Okay, we’re only going to carpet this section or we’re going to paint this?’ Is there money there … if you run a little short … in regard to the Atlantic City property?”
