The most luxurious casino-hotel ever built, the Taj Mahal is Atlantic City’s foremost gaming facility. Opened on April 2, 1990, it has been awarded the prestigious Mobil Five Star award and the AAA Five Diamond award. It has 125,000 square feet of casino space, making it the largest casino in Atlantic City, as well as 1,250 guest rooms, including 237 exotic suites, eleven restaurants, six lounges, 144,000 square feet of convention space, and the sixty-three-thousand-square-foot Mark G. Etess Arena, which seats six thousand.
Donald Trump’s first foray into gaming, Trump Plaza is a five-star, five-diamond casino-hotel located on Atlantic City’s famed Boardwalk, adjacent to the Convention Center. This thirty-one-story, 557-room luxury property features sixty thousand square feet of casino space, eleven restaurants, four lounges, and the 750-seat Cabaret Theatre. It has received worldwide recognition as a favored venue to such mega-events as the World Heavyweight Boxing Championships.
Formerly Trump’s Castle, the newly renovated Trump Marina is located on the beautiful Atlantic City Marina waterway. It is a Mobil Four Star casino hotel. Its twenty-six-story hotel tower contains 725 guest rooms, while the principal public area provides fifty-three thousand square feet of convention and exhibit space, nine restaurants, two lounges, and seventy thousand square feet of casino space.
This elegant casino-yacht, which opened in June of 1996, is nestled in Buffington Harbor, Indiana, just outside of Chicago. Donald Trump’s first gaming venture outside of Atlantic City, it is the largest floating riverboat in the world at an astounding 290 square feet long and 76 feet wide.
In 2002, Mr. Trump entered into an agreement with the Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Luiseno Mission Indians to manage the Trump 29 Casino, his first foray into gaming on the West Coast.
The Mar-a-Lago Club, Palm Beach, Florida.
This famous and historic twenty-acre waterfront estate, formerly owned by Marjorie Merriweather Post and E. F. Hutton, was acquired by Donald Trump in 1985. Designed by the renowned Viennese architect Joseph Urban, Mar-a-Lago was designated a National Landmark by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 1972. It is the only property to receive this distinction in the state of Florida. It was converted by Mr. Trump in 1995 to a private ultra-luxury club that features a world-class spa, renowned dining, tennis, pool, and private beach. The club also functions as an international meeting place for world leaders in government, finance, business, and the performing and fine arts. In 2003, Mar-a-Lago was named by the American Academy of Hospitality Sciences as the best private club in the world.
Designed by the esteemed golf course architect Jim Fazio, Trump International was opened in November 1999 and is already a landmark course that features waterfalls and landscapes unique to the state of Florida. In 2002, it was presented with the Five Star Diamond Award for achieving the highest standards for the greatest golf course in Florida. A spectacular fifty-five-thousand-square-foot clubhouse was also built and based on the Moorish style of the Mar-a-Lago Club.
Mr. Trump entered into a joint-venture agreement with Hollinger International, Inc., owner of theChicago Sun-Times newspaper, to build a luxury, mixed-use development on the site of the currentSun-Times building. Located along the Chicago River, the proposed ninety-story, glass curtain–wall building has been designed by the world-renowned architectural firm of Skidmore Owings and Merrill (SOM). The building will contain approximately 2.2 million square feet, with 470 residential condominium units and 200 hotel condominium units, in addition to 125,000 square feet of retail space, more than a thousand parking spaces, and retail shops and restaurants, along a three-story river walk. Residential and hotel condominium sales commenced in September 2003, and it is anticipated that the project will be completed in 2007 as the fourth-tallest building in Chicago and one of the most luxurious buildings in the world.
Mr. Trump and his Korean partners have built three superluxury, residential high-rise buildings in the heart of Seoul, showcasing the best finishes, amenities, and services. Mr. Trump and his partners are now building a magnificent four-building complex in Busan, Korea, known as Trump World Centum, which will include more than five hundred residential units.