Posted on 05/01/2021 4:06:22 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
Facebookâs billionaire CEO and his wife have nearly doubled their land holdings on Kauai with a recent purchase of 597 acres stretching from the mountains to the sea.
A company owned by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan recently bought the tract of agricultural and conservation land for $53 million from Waioli Corp., a nonprofit established by descendents of historic Kauai sugar plantation firm Grove Farm, started by the Wilcox family.
The land borders roughly 700 acres Zuckerberg and Chan bought around 2015 for about $100 million to establish a secluded estate in an effort that later angered numerous Native Hawaiian families and other residents when Zuckerberg had lawsuits filed a year later to force the owners of several small parcels within the larger property to sell their land at auction.
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Zuck will never be able to build on that island.
Zuckerberg is responsible, in part ( large part) for throwing 2020 to Biden. And we let him get away with it.
Now, he is in follow-up mode.
Islands have some nice advantages if you’re wealthy enough.
He already has, and will do whatever he wishes.
He is pissing off the wrong locals.
I am not sure how that solves anything or helps in any way. LOL
I don’t think anyone think amazon is too big because of its “web services” It wouldn’t matter one iota if that were a separate company.
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