When you collect your $200 after passing Go, you might want to use it to pay for a night at The Top Hat, a Monopoly-themed hotel coming to New Jersey’s Atlantic City in 2025.
Art Imitates Life, and Vice Versa
Baltic Avenue, Oriental Avenue, Park Place, and Boardwalk aren’t just colored squares on a popular board game; they’re actual spots in this Jersey Shore city, a favorite destination of Monopoly’s creator, Charles Darrow.
If you’re unfamiliar, Monopoly players move their pieces over a colored trail of properties in a quest to own them and collect rent from other players. The player with the most money at the end of the game wins, and winning usually correlates with collecting the most properties, all named after roads in the real Atlantic City.
Now, a local developer wants to take iconic images from the game and bring them to life in a boutique hotel.
Tipping Their Hat to an Icon
RMS Capital is developing The Top Hat, a 1,400-square-foot mix of commercial space, a rooftop deck with Atlantic City views, and six Monopoly-themed rooms for up to 12 guests. They plan to decorate each with a unique Monopoly theme, so you'll fall asleep dreaming of those fond times you had as a real estate tycoon lording your holdings over your friends.
The hotel will be located right on Tennessee Avenue, an orange square in the board game and a three-block spot by the beach filled with restaurants and bars in real life.
The Top Hat should be easy to find since plans call for it to feature a large Monopoly hat token on its roof and a recreation of the car token protruding from its façade.
Revitalizing Atlantic City
“The Top Hat at The Orange Loop is a game changer for Atlantic City,” Mark Callazzo, the managing partner of RMS Capital, who has developed other projects in the city’s “Orange Loop” told a local radio station. “We're not just building a structure—we're creating a space that will serve as a landmark for residents and visitors alike.”
So, are you game? Start saving your cash (and we mean the green kind, not the multicolored bills that are easier to come by in the game than in real life).