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AC Outlets The Walk features great outlet shopping at the base of the Atlantic City Expressway. The Walk's addition of 40 brand name retail stores is nearly complete with 100 stores now open. Nike Factory Store, Perry Ellis, Easy Spirit, Eddie Bauer Outlet, Jones New York, Big Dog Outlet and Totes/Sunglass World are just a sampling of the brands that join J. Jill, Borders Outlet, Nautica, Fossil, Banana Republic, The Gap, Oshkosh & more. Restaurants at The Walk include Applebee's, Starbucks, Cavo Crepe Café, Stewart's Root Beer, Subway, Ruths' Chris Steak, Ruby Tuesday and the AC Diner. The Longhorn Steakhouse is opening soon.
Harrah's Atlantic City made a big splash with the opening of The Pool, the Waterfront Buffet, a Red Door Spa and some savvy new retail shops. The Pool is a year round tropical paradise under a huge glass dome, complete with hot tubs, private cabanas for rent, a 50-seat bar and special events open to the public every week. The Waterfront Buffet provides an elegant setting for an expansive and unusual menu that includes a sushi bar, a pasta bar and a hibachi grill. When you need some pampering, the Red Door Spa – one of the largest in the chain – offers luxurious treatments, including poolside cabana massages. Shops include ladies' and men's shops as well as a Sony electronics store. 
Spice Road at Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort adds variety to your visit with new eateries and shops. Eateries with names like Candy and Burger speak for themselves, while Freeze offers frozen drinks and Plate offers American cafe food 24 hours a day. There's also Go for food on the run, Starbucks coffee and shops with clothing, Trump logo items and sundries. 
The newest water activity in town is parasailing, leaving daily from the docks at Gardner's Basin to give you a seagull-eye's view of the Atlantic City Skyline. Also, a dozen cottages are now part of the Arts and Crafts Colony that opened in Gardner's Basin in summer 2006. You'll find specialty items like watercolor paintings and hand-crafted puppets. And for the adventurer, the Web Feet Watersports store specializes in beach and water sports gear, and kayak and bicycle rentals. Aquarium exhibits include an octopus that opens its own food jar, and a diver who hand-feeds the sharks, rays and other sealife every Saturday morning. 
The Pier Shops at Caesars is a high-end retail, dining and entertainment complex on the Boardwalk and connected to Caesars Atlantic City via a sky bridge. It features a world-class roster of elite retailers including Gucci, Hugo Boss, Louis Vuitton, Armani A/X, Bebe, Burberry and Tiffany & Co. Restaurants include Sonsie, Trinity Irish Bar and Carvery, Game On!, Phillips Seafood, Souzai Sushi & Sake, Stephen Starr's Buddakan and The Continental, and the newest eatery, Piazza di Georgio. The end of The Pier Shops, hundreds of feet into the ocean, features a free, hourly indoor "dancing fountains" show choreographed to lights and music. 
Funded by the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority, the Atlantic City Boardwalk is receiving a face-lift as storefronts to four blocks are renovated to the tune of $100 million. The renovations will include the addition of decorative touches like brick and stucco facades, cupolas and new rooftop signs. Two blocks were completed in Spring 2007; work on two more will begin in Fall of 2007. Additionally, restoration of the historic Fountain of Light in Brighton Park at Park Place was completed in Spring 2007. 
Adding to Atlantic City's hot nightlife scene, Providence Nightclub in The Quarter at Tropicana features a one-of-a-kind atmosphere with twin DJ towers, bottle service and cushy VIP lounges. Owned by Metronome Hospitality Group, a New York Based event planning company with nightlife venues in New York and Brazil, the club promises to provide chic New York City style. 
The Circus Maximus Theater at Caesars Atlantic City has reopened after expansive renovations. Originally designed as a dinner theater, it now offers theater-style seating for 1,600 in an elegant atmosphere. The theater also now offers enhanced modern sound and lighting systems, plus a fully equipped bar for pre-show drinks. 
Tropicana Casino & Resort in July 2007 completed $15 million in hotel renovations in the South Tower. All 507 rooms in the tower now feature large televisions, showers for two, lavish bedding and high-speed Internet access. With the completion of the South Tower, every room in the hotel has been renovated within the last three years. 
Spirit Airlines implemented direct, non-stop service between Las Vegas and Atlantic City in June 2007. Previously, Spirit resumed service from Detroit beginning in May 2006, with connecting service to Las Vegas, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Also, Delta Air Lines began offering non-stop service between Delta's largest hub in Atlanta and the Atlantic City International Airport in June 2006. These flights connect customers from nearly 200 worldwide destinations via Atlanta. In the works is a 1,400-space parking garage to be completed in mid-2008.
Borgata, Harrah's Entertainment and the New Jersey Casino Reinvestment Development Authority have teamed up to form ACES, a corporation that will bring light rail service to the Atlantic City area. Express trains will operate on weekends, Friday afternoon through Sunday night, between New York Penn Station and the Atlantic City Rail Terminal.
When it opens in late 2007, the $325 million Water Club at Borgata will be a 43-story hotel tower featuring 800 guest rooms and suites, 18,000-square-feet of meeting space, and six retail shops. But the tower's motif is water, and it's centerpiece will be a two-story, 36,000-square foot spa including 15 treatment rooms, 25-yard lap pool and fitness center. In fact, guests will have the choice of two indoor swimming pools and two outdoor heated swimming pools. 
When completed in 2008, Harrah's $550 million expansion will include 172,000-square feet of retail and entertainment space, a, 500-seat coffee shop, a new nightclub and additional slot and table games. The centerpiece of the project is a 47-story, 964-room hotel tower featuring 183-suites and 13-super-suites for high rollers. When completed, Harrah's will be the tallest hotel casino in Atlantic City. 
Expected to be completed in summer 2008, Trump Taj Mahal recently broke ground on a $250 million, 39-story hotel tower. The tower will feature 786 hotel rooms including 70 ocean view suites and 716 standard guest rooms that will be unusually large at 500-square feet. Ongoing renovations of the existing hotel include refurbishment of the pool and spa areas to include tanning beds, a swimsuit dryer and plasma TVs, new retail shops, and addition of Bice Grand Café of Florida and New York, and McFadden's Sports Bar and Restaurant. 
In 2006, Pinnacle Entertainment, of Las Vegas, purchased the Sands Casino Hotel and surrounding property for $250 million. The Sands closed in November 2006. Pinnacle plans to demolish the building in the Fall of 2007 in preparation for the development of a luxurious $1.2 billion megaresort. Pinnacle expects to break ground in 2008, with an anticipated opening in 2011. 
The Atlantic City Hilton Casino Resort is designing an addition to include a 1,000-room hotel tower with 60,000 additional square feet of casino space. The expansion will also include a 3,500-seat theater, a 3,000-space parking garage, restaurants and retail shops. The expansion is estimated to cost between $1 billion and $1.2 billion.
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