“I surfed right in front of this place as a kid,” he said. Mack, who was raised in nearby Margate, got a job at the Dover Downs casino in Delaware but jumped at the chance to return home. “You knew the end was coming and you had to find another job in Atlantic City, and there weren’t a lot of jobs there,” he said.
George Mack was a casino shift manager at the Taj Mahal when it shut down, a day he recalled as “very gloomy.” “It’s never a dull moment at my table,” she said. The former Revel casino is reopening around the same time as well as the Ocean Resort casino, adding thousands of jobs to a market that lost 11,000 since 2014 due to casino closings. Tuesday’s event was for former workers at the Trump Taj Mahal, which closed in 2016 but will reopen this summer as a Hard Rock casino resort. Applicants for jobs at the soon-to-open Hard Rock casino in Atlantic City N.J.
