The South Florida College Board of Directors is donating a valuable piece of property to Donald Trump Future presidential library The vote on transferring ownership of the land took place on Tuesday.
He faces the Miami Dade College Board of Regents lawsuit Filed by a local activist and prosecuted Set for August Due to allegations of state violations Open government law When you first voted on the gift of parcels. The lawsuit said the board failed to provide sufficient notice for its special meeting on Sept. 23, when it voted to abandon the roughly 3-acre (1.2-hectare) property in Downtown Miami. The judge has Temporarily blocked The college is unable to officially transfer ownership of the land until the lawsuit is filed He plays with it.
The site is a developer’s dream and is worth more than $67 million, according to a 2025 appraisal conducted by a Miami-Dade County property appraiser. One real estate expert bet that the parcel — one of the last undeveloped parcels on a landmark stretch of palm-lined Biscayne Boulevard — could sell for hundreds of millions of dollars more.
On Tuesday, the board held a new meeting at its campus in Hialeah, a predominantly Cuban, Republican-leaning suburb of Miami. Dozens of students, professors, alumni and local officials packed the meeting to comment on the land transfer, an opportunity some felt they were denied when the board initially voted on the issue.
The agenda released before the September meeting simply stated that the board would consider transferring the property to a state fund overseen by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida government, but did not provide any details about which piece of property was being considered or why. Unlike most other board meetings, neither the September vote nor Tuesday’s rerun were broadcast live.
A week after the initial vote, DeSantis and other senior GOP officials voted to transfer ownership of the land again, effectively putting the property under the control of the Trump family when they turned it over to the Trump Library Foundation. This foundation is led by three trustees: Eric Trump, Tiffany Trump’s husband; Michael Boles; and the president’s attorney, James Kelly.
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Kate Payne is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America It is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.