Once a Boardwalk staple, Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino has been closed since 2014. Just now: Former President Trump’s Atlantic City hotel is demolished. After negotiating a demolition deadline of February, Atlantic City then began auctioning off the chance to hit the trigger on the 3,000 sticks of dynamite that would bring the buildings down, but Icahn stepped in to quash the promotion, claiming it was a “health and safety” issue.
Months later in June, Mayor Marty Small declared that the entire plaza complex would be taken down, though the city was still in negotiation with Icahn, an “activist” investor and personal associate of Donald Trump, on the exact timeline. Last year, pieces of the 39-story tower’s concrete and stucco facade rained down on the Atlantic City sidewalk, leading city officials to cordon off the area around the crumbling building and install security guards to direct foot traffic. This morning, the Alan Lapidus-designed complex was razed, though the auction to hit the trigger was canceled by the building’s billionaire owner, Carl Icahn.
A year after Atlantic City, New Jersey, officials declared the crumbling Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino a public safety hazard, both towers of the building, which opened in 1984 but has sat vacant since September 2014, has finally come down.
