ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - The dilapidated building that once housed the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino came crumbling to the ground on Wednesday morning as onlookers came from near and far to watch the implosion of an Atlantic City staple.The property, now owned by billionaire Carl Icahn, was brought down around 9 a.m.
Crowds of people gathered on the beach to get a front row seat of the implosion, others congregated at Bader Field over 2 miles away from the blast site.
To complete the implosion, demolition crews positioned explosives at strategic points along the building’s support structures designed to knock its legs out from under it, bringing the building down on itself, with the debris falling in a slightly north-northeast direction, Fire.