A Miami activist has filed a lawsuit claiming city officials violated Florida’s open government law in gifting a downtown parcel to the state, which was then transferred to the foundation behind Donald Trump’s future presidential library.
The Associated Press reports the nearly 3-acre property is valued at more than $67 million and is one of the last undeveloped lots on an exclusive stretch of Biscayne Boulevard. Marvin Dunn, an activist and chronicler of local Black history, filed his lawsuit in a Miami-Dade County court against the Board of Trustees for Miami Dade College, claiming the board ran afoul of Florida’s Government in the Sunshine law by not providing sufficient notice for its special meeting on Sept. 23, when it voted to present the land for the Trump library.
Dunn is seeking to block the land transfer and his lawsuit argued, “No one not already in on the deal would have had any idea from this ‘notice’ of what the District Board of Trustees was actually planning to do.”
Neither Miami Dade College nor the office of Gov. Ron DeSantis offered an immediate comment on the lawsuit.
