It’s an embarrassment, it’s blight on our skyline, and that’s the biggest eyesore in town. 'That’s not accepted in any other city but Atlantic City. “My administration’s goal is to tear Trump Plaza down,' Small said. (Reuters) - Workers began removing the large letters spelling out the Trump name from the shuttered Trump Plaza casino in Atlantic City on Monday after real-estate mogul Donald Trump. His effort to obtain funding from a state agency toward the cost of demolition did not succeed. Trump Plaza was considered for demolition at least two years ago, but Icahn has not obtained a demolition permit, The Press of Atlantic City reported.
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). 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.
Trump cut most ties with Atlantic City in 2009, and he sued to have his name removed from the shuttered Plaza building in Oct. It is currently owned by billionaire Carl Icahn, who assumed ownership of Trump's former casino company from bankruptcy in 2016. 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. The odds of Carl Icahn unloading his shuttered Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City and selling the Boardwalk resort built in the early 1980s by President Donald Trump might be increasing. Atlantic City's mayor wants to demolish the former Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino.
