{"id":33264,"date":"2025-11-04T20:27:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/33264\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T20:27:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:27:10","slug":"college-appeals-ruling-blocking-miami-land-transfer-for-trump-presidential-library-sun-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/33264\/","title":{"rendered":"College appeals ruling blocking Miami land transfer for Trump presidential library \u2013 Sun Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"

The board of a South Florida college is appealing a judge\u2019s ruling temporarily blocking officials<\/a> from giving away a parcel of prime real estate in downtown Miami to be used for President Donald Trump\u2019s future presidential library<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Attorneys for the District Board of Trustees of Miami Dade College filed a notice of appeal in Florida\u2019s 3rd District Court of Appeal on Tuesday, challenging a lower court\u2019s injunction that bars the transfer of the property \u2014 at least for now.<\/p>\n

Last month, Circuit Judge Mavel Ruiz sided with a Miami activist who alleged that college officials violated Florida\u2019s open government law when they gifted the sizable plot of real estate to the state. Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis<\/a> and other top Florida officials then voted to transfer the property<\/a> to the foundation for the planned library<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Marvin Dunn, an activist and chronicler of local Black history, filed the lawsuit<\/a> arguing that the college board violated Florida\u2019s Government in the Sunshine law<\/a> by not providing sufficient notice for its special meeting on Sept. 23, when it voted to give up the land.<\/p>\n

The nearly 3-acre property is a developer\u2019s dream and is valued at more than $67 million, according to a 2025 assessment by the Miami-Dade County property appraiser. One real estate expert wagered that the parcel \u2014 one of the last undeveloped lots on an iconic stretch of palm tree-lined Biscayne Boulevard \u2014 could sell for hundreds of millions of dollars more.<\/p>\n

The parties are expected to appear before the Miami-Dade judge again on Nov. 24, when attorneys for the college plan to ask that court to stay its proceedings, pending the appellate court\u2019s review.<\/p>\n

Kate Payne is a corps member for The Associated Press\/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America<\/a> is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The board of a South Florida college is appealing a judge\u2019s ruling temporarily blocking officials from giving away…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[28,29,114,123,125,124,373,115,99,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-33264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-news","10":"tag-latest-headlines","11":"tag-miami","12":"tag-miami-headlines","13":"tag-miami-news","14":"tag-miami-dade-county","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-social"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33264","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=33264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}