{"id":71240,"date":"2025-12-04T16:46:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/71240\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T16:46:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T16:46:21","slug":"despite-legal-challenge-miami-dade-college-votes-again-to-transfer-land-for-trump-presidential-library-sun-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/71240\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite legal challenge, Miami Dade College votes again to transfer land for Trump presidential library \u2013 Sun Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"

The board of the South Florida college that\u2019s giving away a valuable piece of property for Donald Trump\u2019s future presidential library<\/a> revoted to transfer the land on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The board of Miami Dade College faces a lawsuit<\/a> filed by a local activist and a trial set for August<\/a> over allegations it violated the state\u2019s open government law<\/a> when it first voted to gift the parcel. The lawsuit said the board failed to provide sufficient notice for its special meeting on Sept. 23, when it voted to give up the nearly 3-acre (1.2-hectare) property in downtown Miami<\/a>. A judge has temporarily blocked<\/a> the college from formally transferring the land, while the lawsuit plays out<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The site 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

On Tuesday, the board held a new meeting at its campus in Hialeah, a predominantly Cuban American and Republican-leaning suburb of Miami. Dozens of students, professors, alumni and local officials packed the meeting to weigh in on the land transfer, an opportunity some felt they were denied when the board initially voted on the matter.<\/p>\n

An agenda released ahead of the September meeting simply stated the board would consider conveying property to a state fund overseen by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet, but provided no details on which piece of property was being considered or why. Unlike the majority of the board\u2019s other meetings, neither the September vote nor Tuesday\u2019s redo were livestreamed.<\/p>\n

A week after the initial vote, DeSantis and other top GOP officials voted to transfer the land again, effectively putting the property under the control of the Trump family when they deeded it to the foundation for Trump\u2019s library. That foundation is led by three trustees: Eric Trump, Tiffany Trump\u2019s husband; Michael Boulos; and the president\u2019s attorney James Kiley.<\/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 the South Florida college that\u2019s giving away a valuable piece of property for Donald Trump\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[28,29,225,227,226,123,373,115,99,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-71240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-florida","9":"tag-florida-news","10":"tag-hialeah","11":"tag-hialeah-headlines","12":"tag-hialeah-news","13":"tag-miami","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\/71240","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=71240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}