A meeting will be held in the coming days as city officials figure out the best way to speed up the permitting process. The demolition of the former Trump Plaza casino will become a fundraiser to benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Atlantic City that the mayor hopes will raise in excess of 1m. Per NJ.com, Icahn Enterprises has been “extremely cooperative” in the process. (Nightscream/ WIkimedia Commons) After being declared a public safety hazard this past March. The Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino pictured in 2006.
It’s nerve-wracking for us when we get high winds. Atlantic City’s Trump Plaza slated for demolition. “We’ve been responding to this building many times, mostly for debris falling from the building. “Vacant buildings are not good for a city, especially high rises,” Atlantic City fire chief Scott Evans told reporters in March. The Superior Court judge gave Icahn Enterprises 45 days to produce plans to commence demolition, and those plans materialized last week. When the dangerous nature of the building, which is shedding chunks of concrete and debris, became apparent earlier this year, city officials filed an injunction with a New Jersey Superior Court in hopes that by officially declaring the structure an “imminent hazard” would hasten its demolition.
And so, demolition permit deadlines have come and gone. As previously noted, a 2018 attempt to demolish the hotel-casino stalled after Icahn failed to receive state funding via the Reinvestment Development Authority that would have been used to cover the cost of the demolition. Still, getting Icahn Enterprises to commit to the building’s demolition is a major step in the right direction. “By the end of the year, or late February, and time for cleanup for next summer season,” he added of the ideal timeline. My administration’s goal is to get it down,” Small said at the press conference, calling a June 2021 demolition “not acceptable.” “That’s smack dab in the middle of our season. Investor Carl Icahn, the blighted property’s current owner, is pushing for an implosion a year out from now although Small, who, along with other officials, has been vocal about razing the “biggest eyesore in town” since at least late 2017, wants it to happen as soon as possible. Designed by Alan Lapidus, the oceanside hotel/ casino opened in 1984 and, after decades of financial troubles, shuttered for good in September 2014.Īs reported by NJ.com, it’s still unclear when exactly the demolition, which will include the implosion of both towers in lieu of just the original hotel tower as initially planned, will take place. That stake was extinguished when the billionaire Carl Icahn took ownership of the company out of bankruptcy court in February 2016.After being declared a public safety hazard this past March, the quickly deteriorating Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino will be demolished as announced by Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small at a press conference late last week. Trump cut most ties with Atlantic City in 2009 aside from a 10% fee for the use of his name on what were then three casinos in the city.
The third casino Trump used to own here, Trump Marina, was sold to the Texas billionaire Tilman Fertitta in 2011 and is now the Golden Nugget. That property has since reopened as the Hard Rock casino. It closed in 2014, one of four Atlantic City casinos to shut down that year, followed by another former Trump casino, the Taj Mahal, in 2016. It was the site of many high-profile boxing matches, which Trump would regularly attend. Trump, then a real-estate developer, opened the casino in a prime spot at the center of Atlantic City’s Boardwalk where the Atlantic City Expressway deposited cars entering the resort. A photo of the Trump Plaza casino in October 2020.
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