What Mark Zuckerberg’s $170 Million ‘Bunker’ Purchase Reveals About Florida and Doomsday

And what Ivanka Trump, Jeff Bezos, and Larry Page have to do with it.

BY VICTORIA SALVES, EDITORIAL FELLOW

Mark Zuckerberg. Illustration: Inc.; Photos: Getty Images; D Ramey Logan via Wikimedia Commons

This week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, officially closed on a $170 million purchase in the South Florida island community known as “Billionaire Bunker.”

The 28,000-square-foot limestone mansion is partially completed and located in Indian Creek Village AKA Billionaire Bunker—an island community known for its fortress-like security and exclusivity.

With 200 feet of waterfront access, 9 bedrooms and 11 full bathrooms, according to the Miami-Herald, Zuck’s new mansion is also reportedly outfitted with a hair salon, gym, massage room, 1,500‑gallon aquarium, and a library with a secret passageway. Originally listed in November for $200 million, the mansion is billed as the largest residence ever created in the village.

Indian Creek Island itself is man-made and sits in Biscayne Bay. The island is only accessible through a single gated bridge, and is home to the upper echelon of the business world including Jeff Bezos, Carl Icahn and Larry Page, as well as celebs like Ivanka Trump. 

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Indian Creek Village Sewage Controversy

Equipped with its own police and fire department, the island has conjured up controversy recently when it proposed a plan to route its sewage through the neighboring town of Surfside.

Surfside officials originally proposed a $10 million fee for the sewage pipeline allowance, citing the money would cover the “historical cost of a system that Surfside created and maintained,” according to the New York Times. The leaders of the billionaire-inhabited island disputed the fee, reportedly calling it extortion, and thus ensuring a sewage battle between the communities of billionaires and millionaires.

That was until, Gov. Ron DeSantis “tacked a clause onto an unrelated state bill, allowing Billionaire Bunker residents to steamroll their neighbors,” Yahoo News wrote. 

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