Former Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino to be imploded, mayor says

[durablend]

It's a start--now to expunge the rest of his existence....


https://www.fox29.com/news/former-trump-plaza-hotel-and-casino-to-be-imploded-mayor-says

ATLANTIC CITY - The building that formerly held the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino for more than three decades will be imploded, Atlantic City Mayor Marty Small confirmed during a Thursday conference.

Since ending operations in September of 2014, the building has fallen into a dangerous state of disrepair. Several instances have been reported citing chunks of building falling onto the tourist city below. City officials say a net will be placed around the building to catch falling debris.

Small says the plan is to implode the building's two large towers which will subsequently bring down the rest of the structure. A demolition date has not been set yet, but Small hopes to expedite the processes.

This news comes after a judge order building owners Icahn Enterprises in March to submit plans for the dilapidated structure within 45 days. Representatives told city officials last week that they planned on destroying the building, which was built in 1984.

[soothsayer]

1. Huzzah! Let it be a metaphor

Though, truth to tell, I really loved playing there.

[TheBlackAdder]

33. Watch out for all of the asbestos in it! And, I'm not shitting!

[soothsayer]

36. Actually, it was the Taj -- phew

Hated trump plaza. Too small and cramped and humid.

[ProfessorGAC]

38. You Bet

The ban on it didn't go into effect until the middle of 1989.
Alternative fireproofing was still WAY more expensive than asbestos in 1984.
I have no doubt they kept things cheap! Geez, they bought $1,400 grand pianos! Even 36 years ago, that was a piece of junk grand piano.
On the asbestos thing: I know some people in the implosion business.
With older buildings, after the building is down, they send certified asbestos guys from Laborers and treat every piece of debris as if it's asbestos. It literally adds 40% to the actual cost of the demolition! The disposal costs are enormous.

[TheBlackAdder]

39. It's super cheap, and a lot of materials were Chinese sourced, having banned chems & heavy metals.

.

And that was Chinese sourced when there was little supervision over what shit was imported into the country.

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[grantcart]

53. Doubtful Chinese asbestos was used

Canada was the main supplier of asbestos into the US (they even named a town Asbestos, Canada) before the ban (2012).

After that Russia was second and other SU countries were very large producers.

China was the third largest producer of asbestos, but less than half of Canada (900 tons vs 400 tons) but even more to the point China was the largest consumer of asbestos.

I recall (but may not be accurate) that within the last 12 months Trump overturned regulations that prohibited Russian asbestos being imported to the US.

[TheBlackAdder]

60. No, Chinese chemicals and heavy metals in products.

[malaise]

63. Don't the Russians have an asbestos company named after

the Con in chief?

[dhol82]

58. I think there was probably a lot of mob related cement in that structure.

Hope that makes it come down easier. Crap cement.

[Faux pas]

2. Kicketty Kickin'

and some Karma

[SBoy]

3. A Campaign Ad in waiting

[Squinch]

9. .

[lagomorph777]

4. It's falling apart already? Great construction, Trump!

I hope the sign is still on it when they blow it up. It'll make great campaign ads.

[customerserviceguy]

45. Trump

treats both buildings and countries as disposable.

[FightingIrish]

5. Raffle off the right to push the button on the detonator.

That would pay the cost of demolition. I'll take a dozen tickets.

[Ohiogal]

6. What a great idea!

[Newest Reality]

7. Me too!

That's a another "monument" so to speak that will have great symbolic meaning when it comes down.

All that money laundering, mob involvement and the famous Trump Bankruptcies, (face it, he wins anyway when he files for it and the money laundering is probably the payoff) are represented in his buildings.

I'll take some tickets, myself in that raffle

[bullwinkle428]

16. PHENOMENAL.

[nolabear]

21. What a fundraiser that would be! And sell off the rubble.

[IronLionZion]

24. Great idea

I'd buy a bunch of tickets. Dude has lots of enemies that he's screwed over. I bet they'd buy a bunch of tickets.

[sarge43]

28. Everyone who bought a ticket can show up and chant

"Tear it down! Tear it down!"

The money should go to a scholarship fund, a homeless shelter, food bank, etc.

[47of74]

35. Yeah I'd hop in line for that

Going to be a goddamn long line though

[Sanity Claws]

8. Good idea

Not enough sage or bleach to clear that place of its innate evil.

[sarge43]

29. Salt the ground. I'm a traditionalist. n/t

[Kahuna]

10. This will make a very nice visual for future campaign videos. nt

[durablend]

11. IDK once it comes down

Set fire to the remains and throw some Trump dolls and MAGA hats on the blaze?

[Brother Buzz]

12. Alex, I'd like to buy a vowel.....

Atlantic City needs to throw the name back up and make it a Pay-for-View moment. I guarantee the city's budget woes will be solved

[nolabear]

22. I swear I'd pay.

[lpbk2713]

61. If they had a sense of humor they would have taken the "T" down first.

And then gone to lunch or something.

[Brother Buzz]

62. That would have worked for me!

[NNadir]

13. Everything he touches dies. Unfortunately, he's touching our country.

[LuvNewcastle]

23. He's grabbing America by the pu$$%.

[tinrobot]

14. Can we put the "TRUMP" logo back on it before demolition? For old times sake?

[Brother Buzz]

15. GMTA

[PatSeg]

17. Everything Trump builds dies

[Paladin]

27. And everybody trump associates with turns to shit. (nt)

[PatSeg]

56. And I think he takes some perverse pride in that

He is a really sick man.

[Blue Owl]

18. A steaming heap of wreckage

The building’s gonna be a steaming heap too...

[patphil]

19. Perhaps they could implode it on the day before the election.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

20. Good

[mnmoderatedem]

25. wow, talk about a metaphor for his presidency

[mwb970]

26. A nice metaphor for trump and his wretched "presidency".

[3Hotdogs]

30. Trump Plaza, "In the center of Atlantic City" was their slogan.

[Javaman]

32. Life imitating life lol

If you notice while the orange asshole has always been a nut job, once he lost the casino, he really took a nose dive mentally.

I think the imploding of his former casino is an apt metaphor for is life and the path it’s taken since he lost it

[IcyPeas]

34. I like presidents whose buildings weren't imploded.

[PCIntern]

37. I'm going to tell you something funny about that place

I made more money at that casino in any other, and I’ve played Atlantic City since the gambling was passed in New Jersey way back in the late 70s. They had of course the table games were like everybody else’s table games, but if you knew where the hot slots were, you could make a fortune. And I did. The machine was called Double Dribble, a two coin machine. Ah the memories.

He’s still a prick.

[Grokenstein]

40. Wait for it...

"Those People are destroying another great monument to white history!! REEEEEEEEEEEEE"

(link: Amanda Chase's recent nonsense)

[JDC]

41. Like all of his businesses. they implode

[usaf-vet]

42. Maybe we could get him to inspect the facility first. He likes to inspect Bunkers.

[AllyCat]

43. Just like his "presidency"

Imploding

[kskiska]

44. The Trump building on Fifth Avenue will end the same way.

Sooner than we think, I hope.

[tinrobot]

57. That building should be declared a toxic waste dump by the EPA.

[ffr]

46. Quick, someone spray paint MAGA on it.

How symbolic would that be to see Trump Plaza razed with his brand going down with it.

[DFW]

47. "The building (that held the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino) has fallen into a....state of disrepair."

As goes his real estate, so goes his presidency..........

[fantase56]

48. can f&%kface personally inspect the implosion

from the inside the building, during the event??

[spanone]

49. they should also hold an exorcism

[Bernardo de La Paz]

50. November 2nd or 4th would be good dates. Inauguration Day 2021 would be another

2nd might have most symbolic impact.

4th might coincide with celebrations.

[Initech]

51. Now this is a 2020 cancellation I can get behind!

[NCjack]

52. Shoddy. Trump probably sourced materials and labor from Mafia. Quick

get in low and get out high with a fortune. Let the next owner deal with the rotten bones.

[BrightKnight]

54. Is that the one with the weird license approval? nt

[demtenjeep]

55. please be on TV

please please please

[OhNo-Really]

59. A National Raffle for pushing detonator!

Proceeds to go to......

New ACORN?

[Norbert]

64. That is the place Frank Sinatra was to perform

rump tried to rewrite the contract with less $$$ for Sinatra to perform. The con-man was told by Sinatra's manager to go fuck himself.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/frank-sinatra-donald-trump-new-book-f-himself-revealed-casino-a7988666.html