The Related Group has offered to donate hundreds of thousands of ancient artifacts and other relics unearthed at the site of a long-buried Native American town in Brickell to universities across the country — drawing sharp rebukes from archaeologists, some Native American activists and at least one of the schools.
Related, which has two residential towers under construction on the Brickell site, agreed under considerable public pressure in mid-2023 to work with the city of Miami’s historic preservation program on a long-range plan to preserve and exhibit the rich trove of finds from the Tequesta Indian village, estimated by its own experts to date back some 2,000 years, and possibly further back.
But Related has now missed two deadlines imposed by the city for a fleshed-out plan, and the developer’s representatives told the city this week in a public hearing that it would take much longer to complete the task, though they remain committed to it…