The billionaire American property designer that once controlled Atlantic City's Sea Hotel Casino, Bruce Deifik (pictured), apparently passed away on Sunday night after experiencing an obvious heart arrest while driving home alone from a baseball video game in Denver.

Struck down while driving:

Inning accordance with a Monday record from the Associated Push information solution released by The Denver Post paper, 64-year-old Deifik skilled the deadly clinical episode succeeding to watching the Colorado Rockies handle the Los Angeles Dodgers at Coors Area. Emergency situation teams found the Colorado native in an subconscious specify soon after his vehicle had left the roadway at reduced speed and struck a light post in midtown Denver.

Despite succeeding initiatives to revive him, the Denver-born entrepreneur was later on pronounced dead at nearby Saint Joseph Medical facility with the local clinical inspector said to carrying out an examination right into the event.

Enthusiastic aims:

A previous Head of state for realty development firm, The Greenspun Company, Deifik paid approximately $229 million to purchase the then-shuttered Revel Resort Casino view unseen in January of 2018 before reopening the 1,399-room property some 6 months later on as Sea Hotel Casino. However, the New Jacket location was not able to catch a considerable share of Atlantic City's nine-casino market and eventually started operating up financial obligations that presently total up to about $22.7 million.

Sale proceeding:

This specify of events apparently led Deifik via his AC Sea Stroll enterprise to concur an offer in February that's to see New York City-headquartered Luxor Funding Team take control of bulk control of the having a hard time casino property. This arrangement is supposedly expected to be finished quickly to leave the now-deceased businessman's estate with a minority risk in the giant Atlantic City property.

The paper reported that a trustee is currently supervising all procedures at Sea Hotel Casino until this deal is finished while a representative for the location, Diane Spiers, stated that she was ‘saddened' to learn of Deifik's passing.

Spiers commented…

"The Sea family is thankful for Bruce having actually the vision to resume this beautiful oceanfront property and utilizing over 3,000 participants of our community. Our ideas and prayers are with his family."