Apparently The Sands in AC is beign raized to make room for a new casino hotel. The new casino, owned by Pinnacle Entertainment, will have about 2000 rooms, a four hundred-fold increase over the existing Sands which has only 500 rooms
Although The Sands doesn't have a highly desired and vitally important connection to the famous boardwalk, the additional purchase of the land adjanct to it (site of the Traymore) will overcome this and connect them all
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