[deport]

Carl Icahn bought it at acution for $530,000 with property records showing:

Property records online show the transfer Sept. 9 from the
Coking family to IEH Investments.

http://articles.philly.com/2014-11-20/news/56313332_1_trump-plaza-vera-coking-carl-icahn

[deport]

The Penthouse Casino owners tried to puchase the property to no avail. So they went ahead
with construction of their casino but financial problems occurred and it wasn't completed.

I never understood how they were building in the space above the
house since they didn't own the land below.

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

[kiryandil]

Thanks, deport. :)