By KATE PAYNE
A Florida choose on Tuesday briefly blocked the deliberate switch of prime downtown Miami land for Donald Trump’s future presidential library.
The transfer by Circuit Choose Mavel Ruiz got here after a Miami activist alleged that officers at an area faculty violated Florida’s open authorities regulation after they gifted the sizable plot of actual property to the state, which then voted to switch it to the muse for the deliberate presidential library.
The almost 3-acre property is valued at greater than $67 million, in response to a 2025 evaluation by the Miami-Dade County property appraiser. One of many final undeveloped tons on an iconic stretch of palm tree-lined Biscayne Boulevard, one actual property professional wagered that the parcel might promote for a whole bunch of tens of millions of {dollars} extra.
Marvin Dunn, an activist and chronicler of native Black historical past, filed a lawsuit this month in a Miami-Dade County court docket in opposition to the Board of Trustees for Miami Dade Faculty, a state-run college that owned the property. He alleges that the board violated Florida’s Authorities within the Sunshine regulation by not offering adequate discover for its particular assembly on Sept. 23, when it voted to surrender the land, and he’s in search of to dam the land switch.
Kate Payne is a corps member for The Related Press/Report for America Statehouse Information Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit nationwide service program that locations journalists in native newsrooms to report on undercovered points.
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