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$2.4B Revel casino to shut down early Tuesday

Revel employees Joe Lucchetti, of Turnersville, N.J., left, and Robert Fitting, of Berlin, N.J. remove letters from a sign at Revel hotel-casino, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014, in Atlantic City, N.J. The hotel closed Monday and the casino will close on Tuesday. (AP Photo/The Press of Atlantic City, Michael Ein)
Revel employees Joe Lucchetti, of Turnersville, N.J., left, and Robert Fitting, of Berlin, N.J. remove letters from a sign at Revel hotel-casino, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014, in Atlantic City, N.J. The hotel closed Monday and the casino will close on Tuesday. (AP Photo/The Press of Atlantic City, Michael Ein) Revel employees Joe Lucchetti, of Turnersville, N.J., left, and Robert Fitting, of Berlin, N.J. remove letters from a sign at Revel hotel-casino, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014, in Atlantic City, N.J. The hotel closed Monday and the casino will close on Tuesday. (AP Photo/The Press of Atlantic City, Michael Ein)

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) – Little more than two years after opening with high hopes of turning around Atlantic City’s struggling casino market, Revel will close its doors Tuesday morning.

The 6 a.m. casino shutdown follows the closure of its hotel on Monday.

By mid-September, four of Atlantic City’s 12 casinos will have gone out of business, but none will be a costlier failure than Revel.

It started construction just before the Great Recession hit, and had to take on so much debt it never could turn a profit.

The Showboat closed on Sunday, Trump Plaza is closing Sept. 16, and the Atlantic Club closed in January.