![]() The margins are better if you can lure a plane from Hong Kong than a bus from Port Authority. The Atlantic City airport would be the hub for jumbo-jet charters from Asia. Crandon’s group and the Chinese were betting that Macau, the Asian gambling mecca, was tapped out, amid a Chinese government crackdown on corruption and gambling, and that travellers from mainland China would soon be including South Jersey on their U.S. “ Crandon says he spent a marathon weekend in town and in New York wooing representatives from a Chinese real-estate firm that had been buying up properties around the United States. There has been talk of repositioning the Revel as a destination for Chinese gamblers.The latest New Yorker, out today, has a story by reporter Nick Paumgarten about “ The Death and Life of Atlantic City ,” taking a sprawling look at the city’s recent decline - and focusing fairly closely on the role Florida developer Glenn Straub, who now owns the bankrupt Revel Casino, and his possible plans for its future.
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