The City Council in Atlantic City scrapped a vote at the last minute Wednesday that would have helped the former Showboat casino re-open as a college campus.
The proposed designation of the site as a redevelopment zone would prohibit it from being used for a casino and allow Stockton University to establish a campus there. It also could end a rival casino's attempt to block the conversion into a college.
No reason was given for the cancellation of the vote.
Trump Entertainment Resorts, which owns the Trump Taj Mahal casino next to the Showboat, is enforcing a 1988 legal covenant among it, the Showboat and Resorts, specifying that Showboat can never be used for anything other than "a first-class casino resort."
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