USA Today – Gov. Chris Christie isn’t planning to intervene within the closings of 3 Atlantic City casinos over the approaching weeks but says he’s committed to finding how to bolster the region’s economic health.
Casino workers facing jobs losses gathered outside the sea City Music Pier and chanted “save our jobs” and “five-year promise” because the governor arrived for a town hall meeting Thursday. Christie, in 2010, unveiled his first-term recovery plan for Atlantic City and said the tourism district needed five years to reverse its fortunes.
Christie told the audience that a Sept. 8 summit he has scheduled for the region’s stakeholders could have the ability to stem further job losses but conceded it’s probably too late to forestall the round of closings that begins with Showboat Aug. 31.
Christie said he can’t order Showboat to stick open and he didn’t mention offering any financial incentives, adding that he’s not “the CEO of Showboat.”
“I don’t wish to run Showboat,” he said. “I cannot and won't order any private enterprise that they've to stick open.”
Revel and Trump Plaza are slated to near in September. Revel officials announced that facility’s shutdown this week.
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