![]() With the assistance of the Institute for Justice, Coking fought the local authorities and eventually prevailed. She was offered $251,000, Ī quarter of what she was offered by Guccione 10 years earlier. As a result, the city condemned her house, using the power of eminent domain. Coking, who had lived in her house at that time for 32 years, refused to sell. ![]() In 1993, Donald Trump bought several lots around his Atlantic City casino and hotel, intending to build a parking lot designed for limousines. The steel framework structure was finally torn down in 1993. She declined the offer, and Guccione started construction of the hotel-casino in 1978 around the Coking house, but ran out of money in 1980 and construction stopped. In the 1970s, Penthouse magazine publisher Bob Guccione offered Coking $1 million ($5 million in 2023) for her property in order to build the Penthouse Boardwalk Hotel and Casino. ![]() In 1961, Vera Coking and her husband bought the property at 127 South Columbia Place as a summertime retreat for $20,000. History Coking house at 127 S Columbia Pl, between the steel framework of the planned Penthouse Casino photographed by Jack Boucher for Historic American Buildings Survey, c.1991 The Vera Coking house was a boarding house owned by a retired homeowner in Atlantic City, New Jersey that was the focus of an eminent domain case involving Donald Trump. ![]()
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