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ATLANTIC CITY - Mayor Lorenzo Langford is calling resort stakeholders to his office later this month to discuss the city's future weeks after one incoming casino operator implored the city's private and public entities to cooperate.

A spokesman for the mayor confirmed Tuesday that the mayor has invited members of the casino industry, civic organizations and state agencies to his office on Nov. 24.

"We are either going to have to stay in this boat and make it float or we're going to sink," Hall said.

The mayor's office gave few specifics about the meeting and those expected to be in attendance. Hall said invites went out to several casino executives, Casino Reinvestment Development Authority Director Tom Carver and representatives of some city neighborhoods.

One source with knowledge of the meeting said the scheduled summit is in response to the public plea for cooperation from Revel Entertainment Group's CEO Kevin Desanctis in late October. Revel is currently constructing a $2 billion casino hotel in the resort's dilapidated Inlet section.

Langford was not immediately available for comment.

See Wednesday's edition of The Press for complete coverage.

6 comments:

• BernieSchwartz (464) posts 9:14 pm

  B4Real- Spot on. I hope for the best but expect absolutley nothing, this being Atlantic City.

• JoeBrokeler (51) posts 7:36 pm

  Maybe Langford will make moron McDumbvitt his Gaming "czar". Maybe moron Mcdumbvitt will get Revel to buy his trailer trash house with the mangy dogs for a couple of million $$. Soon Borgata will renege on their contract with 54, wait and see. thats because hurley boy McDumvitt is so freakin smart. Haaaa ha ha ha ha!!!!

• JoeBrokeler (51) posts 7:30 pm

  Maybe Langford will make moron McDumbvitt his Gaming "czar". Maybe moron Mcdumbvitt will get Revel to buy his trailer trash house with the mangy dogs for a couple of million $$. Soon Borgata will renege on their contract with 54, wait and see. thats because harry boy McDumvitt is so freakin smart. Haaaa ha ha ha ha!!!!

• B4real (268) posts 3:58 pm

  I have to give Langford credit for at least responding, at least on the surface, to DeSanctis. In reality, Langford is a phoney, who was unemployed for 3 years (living off the illegal taxpayer settlement) prior to getting his city hall job back and a failed businessman. His qualifications to run a $200,000,000 a year resort budget?... he was a pit boss! He's just a windbag that knows a few fancy words that pass for intelligence with his largely illiterate voter base. The only reason he's in office is the color of his skin and city hall hand-outs. Langford will do and has done nothing to improve A.C. for taxpayers or visitors.

• WHISTLEBLOWER (37) posts 3:39 pm

  THE CASINOS WILL BE FINE BUT THATS MORE THAN I CAN SAY FOR THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL AS THE STATE AND FEDERAL INVESTIGATIONS WRAP UP!!!!!!!!!

• Thrush (103) posts 2:33 pm

  it's always amusing to watch Lord Langford & Marsh, LLC, try to comport themselves as a real mayor, and a real councilman, just as dem white fold do in the surrounding burgs. Two deadbeats, pontificating about "the city's future," while living off the $$$ they absconded with. Remember the hush-hush SUPERMARKET and BADER FIELD pollyanna promises? Nada. Zip. Abandoned runways looking like Pauline's Praire. And Lord Napoleon Langford, he's a dyed-in-the-woool RACIST to boot. Out of town developers must feel like they're in Lagos or Freetown to deal with the crooks and ex-cons and G.E.D underachievers in that cesspool at 1301 Bacharach. The operative word here for residents: SELL. The tide is ebbing quickly.

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