viral video<\/a> posted by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani that singled out the executive\u2019s $238 million penthouse in the Big Apple as a prime example of a proposed nonresident pied-a-terre tax.<\/p>\n\u201cWe went to Miami and revised our building plan to make it a bigger office building. \u2026 What the mayor of New York has made clear to my partners … and my New York partners \u2026 is that we need to double down on our bet in Miami,\u201d Griffin said.<\/p>\n
He said that the New York mayor\u2019s video demonstrated that the move to Miami was \u201cunquestionably\u201d the right choice. \u201cWhen we moved from Chicago, there was a debate between New York and Miami. \u2026 Mamdani\u2019s making it really clear, New York doesn\u2019t welcome success,\u201d Griffin said at the conference. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to be in a state that embraces business, that embraces education, that embraces personal freedom and liberty, and that embraces people having an opportunity to live the American Dream.”<\/p>\n
Ken Griffin, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chief Investment Officer, Citadel<\/p>\n
Miami-Dade County\u2019s building department has yet to upload the new plans, with the most recent documents available on the county\u2019s website, added in January, still showing a hotel planned for the tower\u2019s upper floors. A Commercial Observer report, citing a spokesperson for Citadel, stated that the firm\u2019s development efforts at 1201 Brickell were focused \u201csolely on commercial office space.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to be in a state that embraces business, that embraces education, that embraces personal freedom and liberty, and that embraces people having an opportunity to live the American Dream,\u201d Griffin said.<\/p>\n
The billionaire has become one of Miami\u2019s and South Florida\u2019s biggest boosters. In February, he partnered with New York and South Florida billionaire developer Stephen Ross to provide $10 million for a campaign from the Council of 100s \u2014 a pro-business nonprofit organization \u2014 meant to promote South Florida and recruit entrepreneurs and business owners to the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ken Griffin is doubling down on Miami as the billionaire CEO and founder of hedge fund Citadel and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-261483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}