[miss marmelstein]

A two million dollar offer for a home is hardly stealing.

[Elderberry]

In the 1970s, Penthouse magazine publisher Bob Guccione offered Coking $1 million for her property in order to build the Penthouse Boardwalk Hotel and Casino. 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. The steel framework structure was finally torn down in 1993.

In 1993, Donald Trump bought several lots around his Atlantic City casino and hotel, intending to build a parking lot designed for limousines. Coking, who had lived in her house at that time for about 35 years, refused to sell. When Coking refused to sell to Trump, the city of Atlantic City condemned her house, using the power of eminent domain. Her designated compensation was to be $251,000, about one quarter of what Guccione had offered her 10 years earlier.

[Leto]

She didn’t want the offer so the big guy and state tried to bully the old widow.

It is what it is.

If you are fine with the rich connected taking property from an unwilling American citizen that is on you.

[Elyse]

Maybe her home was priceless to her. I can’t believe how many people are acting like this woman is an idiot for fighting to keep her property and telling the rich man to shove his money.