The CRDA blessed Harrah’s plan to use $800,000 in Casino Reinvestment Development Authority money to help with a restaurant upgrade complete with a celebrity chef.
According to the Press of AC, $800k was left over from the Harrah’s Waterfront Conference Center project, backed by $45 million in public funding via the CRDA.
CRDA’s mission is to use casino re-investments (special casino tax) as a catalyst for meaningful, positive, quality-of-life improvement efforts for the Atlantic City region.
Does a restaurant upgrade inside a casino with fixed taxes for the next 10 years, qualify as a quality of life improvement for Atlantic City taxpayers?
CRDA Chairman Robert Mulcahy was quoted as saying: “These celebrity chefs are a big deal these days.”
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