Photos: Former Trump Plaza Casino on Atlantic City Boardwalk Imploded Published February 17, 2021 • Updated on February 17, 2021 at 2:42 pm 9 photos 1/9 Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images People wait for the implosion of Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Feb. 17, 2021. The one-time jewel of former President Donald Trump’s casino empire will be gone, clearing the way for a prime development opportunity on the middle of the Boardwalk, where the Plaza used to market itself as Atlantic City’s centerpiece. 2/9 Matt Rourke/AP The former Trump Plaza casino is imploded Feb. 17, 2021, in Atlantic City, New Jersey. 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.” 3/9 Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino is imploded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Feb. 17, 2021. 4/9 Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Former Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino, which has been closed since 2014, is being demolished in Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States on February 17, 2021. 5/9 ayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino, which has been closed since 2014, is demolished in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Feb. 17, 2021. 6/9 Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images Spectators watch as Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino is imploded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Feb. 17, 2021. 7/9 Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images A pile of debris from the Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino after it imploded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Feb. 17, 2021. 8/9 Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images A pile of debris from the Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino after it imploded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Feb. 17, 2021. 9/9 Angus Mordant/Bloomberg via Getty Images Workers walk past a pile of debris from the Trump Plaza Hotel & Casino after it imploded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Feb. 17, 2021. More Photo Galleries Photos: Pro-Palestinian demonstrations on US college campuses Photos: Pro-Israeli, pro-Palestinian demonstrations clash at University of California, Los Angeles O.J. Simpson, a life in pictures The 2024 Solar Eclipse in pictures