{"id":33676,"date":"2025-11-05T01:54:36","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/33676\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T01:54:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T01:54:36","slug":"miami-dade-college-appeals-ruling-blocking-land-transfer-for-trump-presidential-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/33676\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Dade College appeals ruling blocking land transfer for Trump presidential library"},"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 (1.2-hectare) 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

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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":33677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1107,1881,409,113,1882,28,477,1137,1105,4175,123,125,124,99,412,4227,1110],"class_list":["post-33676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-courts","tag-domestic-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-education","tag-fl-state-wire","tag-florida","tag-general-news","tag-kate-payne","tag-legal-proceedings","tag-marvin-dunn","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-politics","tag-ron-desantis","tag-trump-lawsuits","tag-u-s-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33676","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=33676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}