Deep-pocketed Miami residents duke it out to evict a fuel terminal in the city’s wealthiest ZIP code

Nypost · Jun 02, 2026 · 554 words · By Zachary Kussin

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Deep-pocketed Miami residents duke it out to evict a fuel terminal in the city’s wealthiest ZIP code See more of our coverage in your search results.

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Deep-pocketed Miami residents duke it out to evict a fuel terminal in the city’s wealthiest ZIP code See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

Add The New York Post on GoogleA 10-acre parcel on Fisher Island — an affluent district located south of Miami Beach — has become the center of a bitter feud between some of Miami’s most powerful figures.

Common ground

The issue at hand, according to the Wall Street Journal, is a marine terminal that supplies fuel to cargo and cruise ships at PortMiami, which residents of the island — known as the wealthiest ZIP code in Miami, and the second wealthiest nationwide — claim is…

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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Claim 1: “Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava asked commissioners to grant her administration permission to buy the terminal — or grab it through eminent domain”

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Multiple sources confirm Mayor Daniella Levine Cava's pursuit of the terminal via purchase or eminent domain.

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web search NEUTRAL — Eminent domain is what Commissioner Oliver Gilbert suggested last October, when the county entered into mediation with the developer, w ho had already purchased the property. Read related: Eminent dom…
https://www.politicalcortadito.com/2026/06/06/daniella-levin…

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web search NEUTRAL — Commissioners directed Mayor Levine Cava to negotiate with HRP to purchase the property at market value via eminent domain. Then came the lawsuits.
https://www.wlrn.org/government-politics/2026-06-04/portmiam…

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web search NEUTRAL — Mayor Daniela Levine Cava announced the county is proceeding with an eminent domain action to acquire the fuel facility on Fisher Island, after negotiations with the property's owner "concluded withou…
https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/miami-dade-enacts-eminen…

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Claim 2: “They claim they had received rights to 4 of the 10 acres”

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Claim 3: “Fisher Island’s Community Association and a country club sued the county in federal court early this year seeking to halt the eminent domain proceeding”

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Web search results explicitly mention that Fisher Island's Community Association and a country club sued the county in federal court to halt the eminent domain proceeding.

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Claim 4: “A 10-acre parcel on Fisher Island — an affluent district located south of Miami Beach — has become the center of a bitter feud”

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Multiple web sources confirm a 10-acre parcel on Fisher Island (south of Miami Beach) is the subject of an eminent domain dispute and a 'fuel fight'.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. It is a principal city in the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida. The municipality is on natural and human-made…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miami_Beach,_Florida

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Venetian Islands are a chain of artificial islands in Biscayne Bay in the cities of Miami and Miami Beach, Florida. The islands are, from west to east: Biscayne Island (Miami), San Marco Island (…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venetian_Islands,_Florida

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Fisher Island is a census-designated place in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, located on a barrier island of the same name in the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida. As of the 2020 ce…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher_Island,_Florida

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Claim 5: “considered plans to remove the fuel depot and replace it with two luxury condo towers, whose home prices would reach $100 million”

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Multiple sources confirm the plan to replace the fuel depot with two luxury condo towers, with some mentioning top units reaching high price points (e.g., $150 million for penthouses).

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Happiness Realization Party (Japanese: 幸福実現党, Hepburn: Kōfuku Jitsugen-tō), abbreviated as Kōfuku (幸福), is a Japanese political party founded by Ryuho Okawa on 23 May 2009. The HRP is the politica…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happiness_Realization_Party

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Humanoid Robotics Project (HRP) is a project for development of general domestic helper robots, sponsored by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) and New Energy and Industrial Te…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Mandailing (also known as Mandailing Batak) people are one of the sub-ethnic groups of the Batak people, found mainly in North Sumatra and West Sumatra, Indonesia. They are found mainly in the nor…
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Claim 6: “HRP has agreed in principle to sell the terminal to Miami-Dade for $200 million and another $200 million payable over 20 years”

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Claim 7: “approval to take the land by eminent domain was granted one day after the sale to HRP closed for condo development”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results specifically confirming the timing of the eminent domain approval relative to the closing date of the HRP sale.

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Claim 8: “Developers and investors, including Related Group and HRP Group, bought the swath of land in 2025”

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Web search results confirm that HRP Group (and partners/Related Group) purchased the fuel depot, with one source explicitly mentioning the 2025 timeline for the agreement/purchase.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Violence against women (VAW), also known as gender-based violence, violence against women and girls, or sexual and gender-based violence, is violence committed against women or girls specifically beca…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Bipolar disorder (BD), previously known as manic depression, is a mental disorder characterized by periods of depression and abnormally elevated mood, lasting days to weeks, and in some cases months. …
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Claim 9: “they sued HRP from selling the site to Miami-Dade”

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Claim 10: “the joint venture of developers had reached an agreement to purchase the terminal for $180 million”

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Multiple sources confirm the terminal was sold/agreed to be purchased for $180 million.

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web search NEUTRAL — It all stems to 2024, when the fuel terminal operator TransMontaigne Partners put it up for sale. Come 2025, the joint venture of developers had reached an agreement to purchase the terminal for $180 …
https://nypost.com/2026/06/02/real-estate/fisher-island-resi…

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web search NEUTRAL — The terminal, which has an active capacity of approximately 700,000 barrels for marine fuel storage, was sold for $180 million.
https://tankterminals.com/news/transmontaigne-partners-sells…

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web search NEUTRAL — Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava rejected a $400 million deal on Friday to purchase the fuel yard at 1 Fisher Island Drive that keeps PortMiami's cruise and cargo ships running. The price was too…
https://traded.co/blog/miami-dade-rejects-400m-deal-for-port…

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Claim 11: “the fuel terminal operator TransMontaigne Partners put it up for sale [in 2024]”

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Multiple sources, including WorkBoat and Ship & Bunker, confirm TransMontaigne Partners put the facility up for sale in May 2024.

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web search NEUTRAL — Aug 22, 2024 · TransMontaigne, led by CEO Randy Maffett, acquired the Fisher Island fuel depot, as well as six other energy storage facilities, including at ...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Miami/comments/1eylphz/with_all_thi…

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web search NEUTRAL — The company initially put the 10-acre facility up for sale in May 2024 with a starting bid of $200 million. The Fisher Island terminal is the largest bunker fuel storage facility in the Miami area, wi…
https://www.workboat.com/transmontaigne-sells-miami-fuel-bun…

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web search NEUTRAL — Denver-based TransMontaigne Partners has put up its Fisher Island fuel depot up for sale, real estate news publication The Real Deal reported. The company acquired the facility in 2003.
https://shipandbunker.com/news/am/428105-key-miami-bunker-st…

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Claim 12: “a marine terminal that supplies fuel to cargo and cruise ships at PortMiami”

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Multiple independent sources confirm the existence of a marine fuel terminal on Fisher Island that supplies cargo and cruise ships at PortMiami.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Government Cut is a manmade shipping channel between Miami Beach and Fisher Island, which allows better access to the Port of Miami in Miami, Florida. Before the cut was established, a single peninsul…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Cut

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Claim 13: “residents of the island — known as the wealthiest ZIP code in Miami, and the second wealthiest nationwide”

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Multiple sources describe Fisher Island as the wealthiest ZIP code in the US (and thus Miami), specifically citing ZIP 33109.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The ZIP Code system (an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan) is the system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS). The term ZIP was chosen to suggest that the mail travels more …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_Code

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