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Opening 2026

SummerlandBallroom

Located in The Pier at Caesar’s  ·  On The Ocean  ·  Atlantic City, New Jersey

“Everything dies baby thats a fact but maybe everything that dies someday comes back” — The Boss – Atlantic City

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A TRANSFORMATION IS UNDERWAY THE PIER AT CAESARS ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY 2,500 — 3,000 CAPACITY WALL OF SOUND · LIVE CONCERTS · EVENTS A NEW ERA FOR LIVE MUSIC A TRANSFORMATION IS UNDERWAY THE PIER AT CAESARS ATLANTIC CITY, NEW JERSEY 2,500 — 3,000 CAPACITY WALL OF SOUND · LIVE CONCERTS · EVENTS A NEW ERA FOR LIVE MUSIC
The Summerland Ballroom
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Wall of Sound Rendering Mezzanine
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The Rebirth

Something Legendary Once Stood Here

There are places that become more than venues — they become sacred ground. Stages where sound becomes transcendence, where strangers become family, where a single night changes everything you know about music.

The space you’re looking at has known many lives. It has absorbed decades of sound, sweat, and memory into its walls and its bones. And now, it is becoming something new — something that honors everything that came before while stepping boldly into tomorrow.

We are not just changing a name. We are completing a transformation.

The Homage

In the Spirit of Winterland

San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom was more than a concert hall — it was the spiritual home of an era. The Grateful Dead made it legendary. New Year’s Eve, 1978: the final night, a farewell that became mythology.

Summerland is our answer to that cold, dark, beautiful hall across the country and across the decades. Where Winterland was ice and fog and the West Coast winter, Summerland is warmth, salt air, and the eternal Atlantic.

The name is deliberate. The intention is eternal. The music will never stop.

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The Centerpiece

The Wall
of Sound

The most famous sound system in rock and roll history — the Grateful Dead’s revolutionary Wall of Sound, designed by Owsley “Bear” Stanley — will live again inside Summerland Ballroom as a full scale permanent installation.

The images shown are artist renderings of how the Wall of Sound will appear in the space. The venue is complete and ready — the Wall is currently under construction.

Built By Anthony Coscia

Connecticut-based luthier, lifelong Deadhead, and the world’s foremost Wall of Sound builder. Coscia made the front page of the Wall Street Journal in 2020 after building a working 1:6 scale model during the pandemic — a 7-foot tower of 390 tiny speakers that went viral worldwide. He has since completed 1:4 scale and 1:2 scale versions, the latter standing 17 feet tall by 30 feet wide. Summerland Ballroom will be home to his crowning achievement: the first full scale Wall of Sound built for a permanent home.

Coscia’s journey began with $1,000 and salvaged phone speakers. It ends here — on a pier jutting into the Atlantic, inside a ballroom built to hold the sound. His 1:4 scale raised $100,000 for HeadCount. The full scale Wall of Sound at Summerland represents a $1 million plus investment in live music history.

$1 Million Plus Investment

The Space

2,500 — 3,000 Capacity
2 Levels of Floor + Mezzanine
3rd Floor Production & Broadcast
Steps from the Atlantic — Pier Promenade
Wall of Sound Mezzanine View Artist Rendering
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The View From the Mezzanine

The Wall of Sound Awaits

✦   A Love Letter   ✦

From Winterland’s Last Night
to Summerland’s First Morning

On December 31, 1978, the Grateful Dead took the stage at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco for the last time. Bill Graham had roasted turkey and scrambled eggs for the 5,400 fans who had stayed through the night. The band played until 4 AM. People wept.

Summerland is not a recreation of that night. It is a continuation of that spirit — brought to the Jersey Shore, built on a pier jutting into the Atlantic, surrounded by salt air and possibility. A ballroom that believes what those fans believed: that live music is the closest thing we have to magic.

The Dead played their final Winterland show on New Year’s Eve. We open at the dawn of a new season. Summer never ends here.

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Summerland Ballroom Interior
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The Doors
Open Soon

For booking inquiries, press, partnership opportunities, and general information about Summerland Ballroom, reach out directly to our team.