Now his last namesake property there will shortly become a hole in the ground, possibly at your own button-pushing behest. Trump, meanwhile, had hugely overleveraged himself to build his, because the only people who’d lend him money charged high interest rates, and he spent the early 1990s scrambling out of the hole he’d dug. He perhaps did create some jobs, but they didn’t last the city stagnated, as the tacky gambling halls along the boardwalk seemed to funnel little revenue into few hands except those of their owners. “The money I took out of there was incredible.” That might even be true: Somehow he never ended up stuck with the final bill on Trump’s Castle (bankrupt, now the Golden Nugget) or the Taj Mahal (ditto, now the Hard Rock) or Trump Plaza (ditto, soon to be rubble). “Atlantic City fueled a lot of growth for me,” he told the Times shortly before he became president. with casino gambling and instead revitalized mostly himself, briefly. In the mid-1980s, Trump glommed onto the attempt to revitalize A.C. The auction estimate for the implosion-triggering is “$500 to $500,000.” If you can’t quite swing the top bid on the Trump Plaza kaboom, you can perhaps console yourself with one of Bodnar’s other lots, which are more typically along the lines of this Ziploc bag of mixed Indian Head pennies (current high bid: $25). It’s an endearingly local affair: Bodnar’s Auction Sales, “Central New Jersey’s largest auction house,” is handling the bidding (via the LiveAuctioneers platform).

As of Curbed’s publication time, it’s been bid up to $7,250. The AP reports that the city is treating the demolition as a charity fundraising auction for the local Boys & Girls Clubs. And you, Curbed reader with some disposable income, may be the one who can set off the dynamite. On January 29, nine days after he departs the presidency in a snit and holes up in Florida - though possibly not at Mar-a-Lago - to rage-tweet the final few years of his life, the old Trump Plaza casino-hotel tower in Atlantic City will be blown to bits. Really, the script for this presidency has gotten a little too pat. In the video, you can see smoke billowing out of the side of the tower before all 34 stories of the building come crashing to the ground in an instant.Photo: Eduardo MunozAlvarez/VIEWpress/Corbis via Getty Images As the Trump Plaza came down, viewers cheered. While some onlookers reportedly paid as much as $575 to watch the implosion with an oceanfront view and breakfast package up-close, others lined up in cars for a view of the explosion from afar. 17, 2021, people watched as the building was detonated by 3,000 sticks of dynamite at around 9 a.m.

The building, which Trump once said would ' determine the future of Atlantic City' and boasted clientele like Madonna and Muhammad Ali, officially closed its doors in September 2014. While Trump hasn't been chairman of the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino since 2009, when he cut ties with it due to high debt and bankruptcy filings, it was the first of three casinos he opened in the city and a crucial early addition to his real estate portfolio, according to The New York Times. Onlookers recorded the destruction of the once-iconic building via 3,000 sticks of dynamite, and this video of the Trump Plaza demolition has people applauding the symbolic end of the former POTUS' once-thriving gambling empire in the city. 17, the New Jersey resort town officially said goodbye to the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, which was originally opened in 1984 by former President Donald Trump.

It's the end of an era for one of Atlantic City's former boardwalk staples.

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