The press conference took a theatrical flair when the Philadelphia-based Blatstein arrived with a 14-foot albino Burmese python wrapped around his neck.
That includes a 25,000-square-foot sports bar complete with a 20 x 20 boxing ring. The project is billed as the largest arcade in the state, at 100,000 square feet. Just ahead of the busy summer season in Atlantic City, real estate developer Bart Blatstein last week announced that May 15 would be the grand opening of Lucky Snake at Showboat, a site that Mayor Marty Small Jr.