Billionaire Ken Griffin, CEO of the hedge fund Citadel, now officially owns an entire block of Miami’s Brickell financial district. This comes after the City of Miami Commission voted Thursday to sell the site of a historic cottage and home of a historic preservation agency to him.
Commissioners voted unanimously to approve the $3 million sale of the Jackson Cottage land to Griffin’s company, which will now build a new 54-story, multibillion-dollar global headquarters for Citadel.
The cottage was from the early 1900s office and home of Dr. James Jackson: Miami’s first medical doctor when the city was incorporated in 1896, and the namesake of Jackson Health System. Today, the city-owned property serves as the offices of the Dade Heritage Trust (DHT), a local historic preservation nonprofit…