Aerial view shows Miami’s Freedom Tower and adjacent parking lot set aside for the Trump Presidential Library following a vote by Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Cabinet. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
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"No monument can fully capture the scale of my father’s legacy, but this library will stand as a tribute to the leader who reshaped history and restored America’s strength," Eric Trump said in a statement.
No architectural plans have been released, but Eric Trump said it would not look like former President Barack Obama’s presidential center, which is slowly rising in Chicago.
"Consistent with our family's DNA, this will be one of the most beautiful buildings ever built, an icon on the Miami skyline — rest assured, it will not look like President Obama's ‘prison-like structure,’" Eric Trump wrote on X, referring to the Obama Center’s 235-foot-tall concrete museum at the site. At 19.3 acres, the Obama Presidential Center sits on a site more than seven times larger than Trump’s.
The Miami site is currently used as an employee parking lot for Miami Dade College's Wolfson Campus and is adjacent to the historic Freedom Tower, which served as a resource center for hundreds of thousands of Cubans who fled communism in the 1960s and 1970s and sought asylum in the United States. The 100-year-old structure is considered a symbol of the city’s vibrant immigrant heritage.
The site is surrounded by luxury high-rise apartment buildings and has waterfront views, facing directly at the Kaseya Center, home to the NBA’s Miami Heat, as well as Dodge Island, where many of the world’s largest cruise liners dock.
The 2.63-acre parking lot in downtown Miami, seen beside the Freedom Tower, has been designated as the site of the future Trump Presidential Library. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier)
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Locations associated with Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and Florida International University in suburban Miami had previously been floated as potential library sites. DeSantis signed a bill this year preempting local governments from blocking development of a presidential library, aiming to overrule potential opposition in liberal-leaning counties or municipalities.
The Trump Presidential Library Foundation's other trustees are Tiffany Trump’s husband Michael Boulos and Trump attorney James Kiley.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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