Following a legal battle on whether Miami-Dade College could gift prime downtown real estate for President Donald Trump’s future presidential library, the foundation for his library now owns it, property records show.

According to the Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser, the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation Inc. now owns the property at 531 NE 2 Ave.

In January, the District Board of Trustees of Miami-Dade College, the previous owners of the land, transferred the property to the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund of the State of Florida for $10, records showed.

The state board is overseen by Gov. Ron DeSantis.

A month after Miami-Dade College President Madeline Pumariega transferred the property to the state, the board on February transferred the property to Trump’s presidential library foundation for $10 in a quitclaim deed, records showed.

As part of the quitclaim deed, the foundation must have started construction on the library within five years.

Timeline of proposed Trump Presidential Library

DeSantis, on Sept. 23, announced the proposal of an item to create the presidential library for Trump near the Freedom Tower.

In his proposal, DeSantis said a 2.63-acre parcel at Miami-Dade College’s Wolfson Campus that is owned by the college would be the site for the presidential library.

Seven days after DeSantis’ announcement, the state board, made up of the attorney general, the chief financial officer and the commissioner of agriculture, voted unanimously to give the parcel appraised at more than $66 million to the foundation planning the president’s post-administration archives.

After the board voted to gift the land for Trump’s presidential library, a lawsuit was filed in October by a Miami activist, who alleged that city officials violated Florida’s open government law when they gifted the plot of prime downtown real estate to the state.

Marvin Dunn, an activist and chronicler of local Black history, filed a lawsuit Monday in a Miami-Dade County court against the Board of Trustees for Miami Dade College, a state-run school that previously owned the property. He alleges that the board violated Florida’s Government in the Sunshine law by not providing sufficient notice for its special meeting on Sept. 23, when it voted to give up the land, and he’s seeking to block the land transfer.

A judge then temporarily blocked the transfer of the downtown Miami land for Trump’s presidential library, and a trial for the lawsuit seeking to block that transfer was set for August 2026.

As the process played out in the courts, Miami Dade College trustees on Dec. 2 voted unanimously to transfer the land.

The case was ultimately thrown out by a Miami judge on Dec.18 after he ruled in favor of Miami-Dade College.

Eric Trump has pledged the future library will be “one of the most beautiful buildings ever built” and “an Icon on the Miami skyline.” Under local zoning rules, the best use of the property would be a towering condo building, according to one Miami real estate expert, who described the site as a potential “cash cow.”