Bids to push the button and implode Trump Plaza have topped $53,000 as of Monday morning.Â
Mayor Marty Small Sr. announced Thursday the launch of a live online auction to solicit bids on the right to push the button to demolish the vacant Boardwalk casino building. Proceeds of the auction will go to the Boys & Girls Club of Atlantic City.
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The demolition of the last remaining symbol of President Donald Trumpâs former Atlantic City casino empire was originally scheduled for Jan. 29. Due to safety concerns, Small said the implosion would now take place in February, but he did not disclose a date or time.
Construction crews have already started the process of preparing the Trump Plaza Casino in Atlantic City for its demolition
ATLANTIC CITY â Bidding on the chance to push the button that blows up the former Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino is up to $50,000 as of Saturday night, and one campaign to raise money for a bid would give that opportunity to one of the enemies of the buildingâs namesake.
A St. Louis man has set up a GoFundMe campaign to raise as much as $1 million toward the chance to hand the button over to porn star Stormy Daniels, who said she was paid off by President Donald Trumpâs lawyer to stay quiet about an alleged affair she had with him in 2006.
Atlantic City Is Offering Bidders The Chance To Blow Up A Former Trump Casino
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For about six years, the ghost of the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino has haunted the boardwalk in Atlantic City, N.J., its lingering vastness vacant of life.
But not for long: The skyline highlight-cum-eyesore is scheduled for demolition late next month, and the city is offering you the opportunity to bring it down with your own bare hands â sort of. We are selling the experience to push the button to implode Trump Plaza, says Bodnar s Auction, an independent auction house that the city has hired to collect bids for the building s planned implosion on Jan. 29 â just nine days after President Trump s term come to a close.
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