avenues & Pacific Avenue and the Boardwalk.

Resorts Casino Hotel, Atlantic City's first gaming attraction, has begun construction on a $115.5 million, 400- room hotel tower (right) on North Carolina Avenue. Resorts will boast 878 hotel rooms upon its completion in June 2004. Resorts made room for the new tower by demolishing the 41-year-old, 166-room North tower in early November 2002.

Park Place Entertainment, owner of The Shops on Ocean One (below), an ocean liner-themed shopping mall on the Boardwalk at Arkansas Avenue, will redevelop the mall into a Monopoly-themed shopping and entertainment attraction dubbed "Park Place on the Boardwalk." Once considered Atlantic City's most unique shopping attraction, The Shops on Ocean One will officially dock for good when it shut its doors on December 31.

The new $80 million facility will include nearly 60 major retail stores, dozens of restaurants and nightclubs, as well as three Monopoly-themed courts. Among the many attractions will be a $5 million Water Works venue, which will feature a 100-foot tall and 120-foot-wide glass cylinder on the end of the pier. The massive glass cylinder will come complete with pipes, pumps and fountains that will produce dancing water, smoke, steam and fire inside the cylinder. Powerful cannons will shoot ocean water nearly 200 feet into the air to the sounds of a musical ballet, which will be accompanied by the world's first autoaqua-pipe organ. An enclosed pedestrian bridge will connect Caesars Hotel Casino to the 900-foot pier, which is scheduled to officially open during Spring 2004.

Carnegie Library (right), a Beaux-Arts style building that was constructed in 1904 and served as the city's library until 1985, is being restored by the Casino Reinvestment Development Authority and Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. The learning institution will use the facility as a satellite campus and will house programs in hospitality management, business and educational technology. Once the $5 million restoration and 5,500-square-foot expansion project is completed, Carnegie Library's three floors will feature two classrooms, two seminar rooms, a computer lab, a 75-person lecture hall,