Miami isn’t short on billionaires. But Ken Griffin is doing more than just living here. In 2022, he moved his hedge fund Citadel’s headquarters to Miami. And now he’s announced a plan to expand the office footprint at the tower the company is building in Brickell.
The decision to expand came days after New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s proposed tax on second homes worth more than $5 million. A video announcing the tax proposal showed a $238 million New York penthouse owned by Griffin, the Miami Herald reported.
“We have added several hundred thousand square feet of new space in our new [Miami] building,” Griffin said in a Tuesday interview on CNBC’s The Exchange. “We will add far more jobs in Miami over the next decade as an immediate and direct consequence of the mayor’s poor decision here with respect to his posting of that video.”…