Mobster Al Capone’s former residence in Miami, USA has been demolished despite efforts by heritage groups to try to preserve it.
According to US press reports, citing a city government spokesman, the Miami Beach Board of Historic Preservation was considering granting the residence a “historic home” designation prior to the demolition.
However, the entry into force of a new law does not authorize the council to consider the practice without the consent of the village owner.
With a colonial style, the residence is located on the seafront of Palm Island and has two floors, eight bedrooms, eight bathrooms, a sauna, a spa and a large swimming pool, as well as being surrounded by palm trees.
The property was sold in October 2021 for $15.5 million to real estate developer Todd Glaser and investor Nelson Gonzalez. The duo’s goal had always been to tear down the place and erase the mobster’s legacy, but the matter had generated much debate in the community.
According to Glaser, the house sustained extensive damage, with part of the structure submerged in the flooding. “It sucks, it sucks for Miami Beach,” she commented.
The village originally belonged to Clarence Busch of the Anhueser-Busch dynasty, who once controlled the largest brewery in the world. However, the Chicago-born gangster bought the property in 1928 — six years after it was built — for $40,000.
In addition to having lived in the villa during his time on the run, the house was where he died, aged 48, of a heart attack and stroke. He is also believed to have masterminded the “Valentine’s Day” massacre, in which seven members of a rival gang were murdered in a Chicago parking lot by men disguised as police officers. .
Source: Terra
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