Demolition Permit Submitted For Al Capone’s Former Miami Beach Home

A demolition permit is now pending for the Miami Beach home that Al Capone once lived in.

Building Department records show that a permit for total demolition was applied for on September 28 and is moving through the approval process.

The former Capone home was built in 1922 but was not labeled as architecturally significant.

Previously, Miami Beach made it difficult to demolish homes built before 1942.

Under a new law passed by Florida’s legislature this year and signed by Governor Ron DeSantis in May, the city cannot prevent private homeowners from demolishing their homes, unless they had been previously designated historic.

 

(photos: florida memory)

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Anonymous
4 months ago

Good

Jerome
4 months ago

I think it could have been turned into a Museum, maybe honoring law enforcement of the time. Such a waste to tear down historic architecture simply because it was built for a criminal.

Anonymous
4 months ago

Boy, that guy sure was ugly.

Anonymous Hippo
4 months ago

Sad.

will
4 months ago

Lets keep a crappy old house bc a murderer lived there!

Drac
4 months ago

Yeah.. lets just keep making money off of his name because people love gangster movies.

You’re a joke will.

anon
4 months ago

Thats actually an old photo. It’s a beautiful estate.

Hotel
4 months ago

No. You will never get it.

Anonymous
4 months ago

Demolishing the house is architectural murder. It’s not the house’s fault Al Capone lives there.

MM305
4 months ago

Star island has always been a rich person’s playground. They never have to worry about historic designation, but every house in Coral Gables north of bird road is on the chopping block

Armando
4 months ago

The house is on Palm Island not Star Island.

Downtown Vagabond
4 months ago

Need to hurry up

Anonymous
4 months ago

Somebody alert Geraldo. I heard there’s an underground stash.

Melo is sigma and Chad
4 months ago

Could be a airbnb

Anonymous
4 months ago

What’s the replacement, another McMansion…-I mean spec house that looks exactly like every giant concrete box built in the last ten years?

delicious
4 months ago

oh you mean those mcMansions that look like modern community college libraries around florida or san diego…bland and concrete…with nice stainless steel kitchens tho

Anonymous
4 months ago

This is why HOAs and historic districts/designations matter. The fact the city never designated it is crazy.

Sgt Sapingo
4 months ago

They can move it over by Vizcaya and start an old wives tale that the two houses were owned by real estate developers back in the day who each wanted to show off their immense wealth and real estate prowess by building dualing waterfront mansions and the battle is still going on today. 🙂

Name
4 months ago

bro we could have made it like a small museum accessible from boat so we wouldn’t have to make parking lots everywhere

Alcoholiotic
4 months ago

Look, I’m the king of Florida and I say it has to go.

– Gov Ron DeSantis

NotElon
4 months ago

Are you a former Twitter content curator?

Alcoholiotic
4 months ago

I leave stuff like that to small fry Elon Musk.

– Gov Ron DeSantis

Anonymous
4 months ago

That’s God Ron DeSantis to you peon!

Alcoholiotic
4 months ago

That’s next when I become “God” of the entire USA!

Hotel
4 months ago

That would have been cool. Turn a former mobster’s house that used to live in Miami Beach into a cool museum. As crazy as it sounds. But no, we don’t value historical landmarks.

MINDSET
4 months ago

Look at what they did with the Orange Bowl… do you see it standing anymore?

Hotel
4 months ago

My point precisely.

Anonymous
4 months ago

Thank goodness, I’ve seen better looking homes in Hialeah!

MINDSET
4 months ago

But far, far more worse looking.

anon
4 months ago

This shouldn’t be knocked down. It’s a piece of Miami History.

Anon
4 months ago

I guess Miamians hate their history

Pleezzee
4 months ago

Uhhh, I thought this was U.S.A history?..

Pleezzee
4 months ago

I guess me and Anon should just Shut Up!

anon
4 months ago

Miamians hate history. They want to demo the whole city and replace with glass boxes. They’d be happy to totally erase their past (judging from the comments on this site)

Ana
4 months ago

Make way for new history. Every great city wouldn’t exist without some demolition and rebranding. Stop trying to Model Miami after European cities that are crumbling inside out and have stagnant growth. Look at how badly they’re hurting right now with inflation. A large part of that is because they are stagnant.

alcools
4 months ago

uh no

Hotel
4 months ago

And I totally agree with you.