A video shown at the press conference announced performances will kick off July 5 with Third Eye Blind. The reconstruction will also feature a Howie Mandel Comedy Club and two separate arenas – one being the Hard Rock Live at the Etess Arena with a capacity of more than 7,000. Now, in nearly record time, the new Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City is slated to open June 28.ĭuring a press conference April 18 at Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square, Jim Allen, CEO of Seminole Gaming and Chairman of Hard Rock International, announced the 17-acre site includes a 400-seat Hard Rock Café, 150,000 square-feet of event space, 2,200 slots and 125 table games with 2,000 upscale hotel rooms. Wimberly and Ponce were so buried by building materials and debris that it took almost 10 months to recover Wimberly’s body and a couple of weeks longer to recover Ponce’s remains.It was only one year ago when Hard Rock International announced a multi-million dollar plan to purchase Donald Trump’s Taj Mahal Hotel. The men who were killed were in that part of the building where the collapse started, making it impossible for them to escape the sections that collapsed. Some suffered severe injuries, and Jose Ponce Arreola, Quinnyon Wimberly and Anthony Magrette were killed. Several workers inside the building weren’t so lucky.

Only four cars can be seen in the path of debris raining down on Rampart Street as they approached Canal, and they were able to quickly pull to the right and away from the danger.

The collapse happened on a Saturday morning when vehicle and pedestrian traffic was significantly less than normal at the busy intersection of Rampart and Canal streets. In addition to the heavy concrete poured on the rooftop five days before the collapse, a large amount of construction equipment can be seen along the Rampart Street edge of the rooftop.

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