Billionaire Ken Griffin Wants to Move a Historic Home off His Miami Property. Preservationists Aren’t Happy.

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A proposal by billionaire hedge-funder Ken Griffin to relocate a historic home on a site he purchased in Miami for $106.875 million last year has preservationists concerned. 'This is not just some house.'

relocate his company Citadel to Miami

last year, some predicted his presence—and subsequent bet on the local real-estate market—would shape the future of the city. Now, some local preservationists say Mr. Griffin is being cavalier about protecting the city’s past. A proposal by Mr. Griffin to relocate a historic home on a site he purchased in Miami’s Coconut Grove fhas become controversial in the community. Preservationists say a property of that level of historic designation, built around 1913 for three-time presidential candidate and onetime Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, shouldn’t be moved, outside of extreme circumstances. Mr.

 

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This what's called bored money action. Why relocate when he can build exactly the same one?!

If you want to preserve the house, buy the fucking house

This is what you call free publicity, right?

The preservationists should be thankful he’s willing to relocate it, or they can EABFD.

I think it's like taking out a heart and putting it in someone else's body.

Are there any locals in Miami?

Griffin should be allowed to move it. Right now it has little benefit to the public. If it was a former US President’s home, then it would be a different story. Also, it was only built in 1913 and then extensively restored by the previous owner less than 15 years ago.

Boring

Rich people's problems

Ken Griffin ..the biggest white color criminal in the hx of the world...and it's not even close!!!and SEC is payed all the way off

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