{"id":20645,"date":"2021-02-17T12:15:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T17:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/?p=20645"},"modified":"2021-02-17T12:15:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T17:15:40","slug":"one-time-jewel-of-trump-casino-empire-imploded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/2021\/02\/17\/one-time-jewel-of-trump-casino-empire-imploded\/","title":{"rendered":"One-time jewel of Trump casino empire imploded"},"content":{"rendered":"

People gathered to watch as the former Trump Plaza casino, once the jewel of\u00a0former President Donald Trump’s casino empire,\u00a0was imploded on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, in Atlantic City, N.J. The building fell into disrepair and was shuttered in 2014.<\/p>\n

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This July 24, 2014 photo shows the former Trump Plaza casino in Atlantic City, N.J. On Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small announced the city will auction off the right to push the button to dynamite the former casino, which is now closed, to raise money for a local youth charity. (AP Photo\/Wayne Parry)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This Sept. 10, 2014 photo shows a partially burned-out sign on the exterior of the Trump Plaza casino in Atlantic City, N.J. On Monday, Jan. 18, 2021, an auction house soliciting bids for the right to press the button to implode the shuttered casino stopped the effort after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from billionaire Carl Icahn, who owns the property. Icahn says the auction would have promoted something he considered to be a safety risk, and said he will replace the $175,000 that would have gone to the Boys Girls Club of Atlantic City. (AP Photo\/Wayne Parry)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This July 24, 2014 photo shows a partially burnt-out sign on the exterior of the Trump Plaza casino in Atlantic City, N.J. On Jan. 18, 2021, an auction house soliciting bids for the right to press the button to implode the shuttered casino stopped the effort after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from billionaire Carl Icahn, who owns the property. Icahn says the auction would have promoted something her considered to be a safety risk, and said he will replace the $175,000 that would have gone to the Boys Girls Club of Atlantic City. (AP Photo\/Wayne Parry)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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People watch the former Trump Plaza casino’s implosion in Atlantic City, New Jersey, on Wednesday, February 17, 2021. The city imploded the building after it fell into such disrepair that chunks began peeling off and crashing to the ground. (AP Photo\/Ted Shaffrey)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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People gather in a nearby parking garage to watch the planned implosion of the former Trump Plaza casino on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, in Atlantic City, N.J. After falling into disrepair, the one-time jewel of former President Donald Trump’s casino empire is reduced to rubble, clearing the way for a prime development opportunity on the middle of the Boardwalk, where the Plaza used to market itself as “the center of it all.” (AP Photo\/Seth Wenig)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The former Trump Plaza casino is imploded on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, in Atlantic City, N.J. (AP Photo\/Seth Wenig)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

People gathered to watch as the former Trump Plaza casino, once the jewel of\u00a0former President Donald Trump’s casino empire,\u00a0was imploded on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, in Atlantic City, N.J. The building fell into disrepair and was shuttered in 2014.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":20652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[203,7,9,4,132],"tags":[],"coauthors":[41],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/02\/AP21048535837677-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20654,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20645\/revisions\/20654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20645"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}