Atlantic City mayor wants former Trump casino 'eyesore' torn down

[Dennis Donovan]

https://www.nj.com/atlantic/2020/01/atlantic-city-mayor-wants-former-trump-casino-eyesore-torn-down.html

Updated 12:01 PM;Today 9:21 AM


Trump Plaza Hotel Casino in Atlantic City is shown in an Oct. 12, 2010 file photo. Atlantic City's mayor wants to demolish the vacant casino.AP

Atlantic City’s mayor wants to demolish the former Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino.

Mayor Marty Small said in a speech Thursday to a business group that knocking down the vacant casino once owned by President Donald Trump is one of his main goals for 2020.

It is currently owned by billionaire Carl Icahn, who assumed ownership of Trump's former casino company from bankruptcy in 2016.

Trump cut most ties with Atlantic City in 2009, and he sued to have his name removed from the shuttered Plaza building in October 2014, a month after it closed. His last remaining interest in the city, a small stake in the company in return for the use of his name, has since been extinguished.

The other two casinos Trump once owned are operating under new brands: the Golden Nugget (once Trump Marina) and Hard Rock (the former Trump Taj Mahal).

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Think of how cathartic a gigantic bonfire would be!!

[calimary]

1. It could be called "The NEW Bonfire of the Vanities".

[Jersey Devil]

2. That ugly eyesore is front and center

If you have ever driven into Antlantic City you'd know that Trump Plaza is dead center in front of you when you enter Atlantic City. So they don't want it torn down because they dislike Trump, but because it makes the skyline as you enter the city look ugly.

[Dennis Donovan]

3. Sad there wasn't a way for them to preserve old AC back before it was too late

[lunatica]

5. This photo is great fun to enlarge and study

You have to move it around to get a good look at all the parts, but you get a much closer and intimate view of the people. It’s fascinating! It actually enlarges very clearly and sharply to the point you can see people’s faces and expressions.

Good find!

[Sanity Claws]

12. The beach has eroded since then

I don’t know when that photo was taken (1900?) but last time I was in Atlantic City, about ten years ago, the sandy part of the beach was a much thinner strip.

[Jersey Devil]

18. At one point they built it back up again

About 4-5 years ago the beaches were all filled in with sand

[bdamomma]

17. It was the place to be

back in the day.

Really enjoyed watching "Boardwalk Empire" when it used to be on.

[dalton99a]

4. Tear it down

[Newest Reality]

6. That's the style!

Tacky, garish, aggressive, showy, brassy flash. Something from a game of pin the tail on the style. It is like an incarnation of the vulgar trying to feign something it imagines to be class.

[Scarsdale]

11. Sort of like marrying a former "escort"

then comparing her to Jackie O?

[Newest Reality]

13. !

[progressoid]

7. I doubt Icahn will let that happen.

Icahn served as special economic adviser on financial regulation to U.S. President Donald Trump briefly in 2017

[Brother Buzz]

15. He's cool demolishing it, but....

he's angling to do it on the state's nickel (Hell, that sounds like it came straight out of the orange anus' game book).

[NCjack]

8. Keep it, as a reminder of what happens when Trump sells a deal too good to be true. nt

[CaptYossarian]

9. With the cheap materials Trump forgot to pay for, a Ford Maverick could just bump into it and

wipe it out.

There's more shoddy construction there than just wet, moldy Chinese sheetrock.

[Scarsdale]

10. I look forward to seeing

the ugly eyesore in our White House removed.

[Blue Owl]

14. Ugly as sin

Just like the man himself

[bdamomma]

16. Get the

dynamite please.