Mark Zuckerberg DOUBLES size of his Hawaii property empire after spending $53m on 600 acres of beachfront land despite million-person petition calling for a ban on his 'colonization' of paradise island



The family bought the Kahu'aina Plantation first, then the Pila'a Beach plot, and now a new area


Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have almost doubled the size of their estate in Hawaii, purchasing a neighboring 600 acre plot for $53 million in a move likely to further enrage his island critics.

The Facebook founder, who began buying up chunks of the island in September 2014, added the additional land on March 19, according to Pacific Business News.

Kauai is the fourth largest of Hawaii's eight main islands, and home to 67,000 people.


Zuckerberg and Chan, worth an estimated $117 billion according to Forbes, have faced resistance to their spending spree in the past.

The California-based couple bought their first 357-acre chunk of the island in September 2014, purchasing the Kahuaina Plantation from California investment firm Falko Partners.

The couple, who also own properties in San Francisco, Palo Alto and Lake Tahoe, then bought 384 acres from the late Hawaii auto dealer James Pflueger.

In 2018 they bought yet more, meaning their landholdings total nearly 750 acres, according to local media.

His entities also acquired titles to dozens of smaller lots within the larger parcels that were known as 'Kuleana Lands' - land granted to Kanaka Maoli tenant farmers between 1850 and 1855.

Zuckerberg was accused by some of trying to force the tenant farmers from their historic plots, and in 2017 he apologized in the local newspaper, explaining that he was abandoning his quiet title actions and would 'work together with the community on a new approach'.

A petition was begun last year to 'stop Mark Zuckerberg from colonizing Kauai', and now has more than a million signatures.





The nonprofit, however, said they were delighted with the latest sale to their multibillionaire neighbor.

'The decision provides Waioli with the financial ability to be able to continue our critical conservation and historical work and ensure that Kauai's cultural history continues to be shared in the community for years to come,' said Sam Pratt, president of Waipoli Corporation, in a statement.

He said the organization chose Chan and Zuckerberg after seeing their 'dedication over the years to land conservation, protecting native species and working to preserve the natural beauty of Kauai.'

'We know that this land will remain in their trusted hands and that Mark and Priscilla will act as responsible stewards of Lepeuli today and in the future,' he said.


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Soon to become suckerberg island

The elites know that the dollar will be worthless in coming years and also know that real estate will hold it's value.

So I guess he thinks global sea level rise is bullshit, too.  

Otherwise, those are kind of a shitty investment.

Isn’t bill gates the largest land owner?  

They know somethings up.

Not if the islanders claim it back

At some point people will realize just how worthless online petitions are.

I can't say that I blame him.  Kaui is beautiful, and if "the lights went out" it would be a great place for primitive survival.

- CoC 4 and 7 -

Native Hawaiians want me to give a damn. Yet these same natives would treat me like crap if I was a visitor on the island. File this under I don't care. Maybe they can stop putting liberals in office.

Colonization seems like the wrong term for purchasing real estate that is for sale.

Wow, he must have really done something to you.  Sorry man...hope you can move on.

While I think robot boy is a direct threat to the republic but when a buyer and a seller agree to terms it is what it is. So who are these million people to object when the island only has 67,000 residents.

Volcanic island is home to an evil villain

Oh well.  Liberal-land.  Fuck it.

Good, fuck em, they get what they voted for.

Zuckerberg is one of the most dangerous fascists of our time. I hope things happen to him in the near future...

I didn't know he was married to a Chinese lady.

I'd have a coke if that Haloe had all his shit expropriated

Top secret.

Who was voting on what in this situation?

A small group of people could live on free range chicken for years, that's for sure.

They'd need guns to do that. The commies have disarmed the Hawaiian people.

Nope, the largest landowner in the U.S. is John Malone.  Gates does own the largest portion of farming land though.

Hey look! Another ignore lister.

Hawaiians have been voting for basically commies for years.

Now one of the central committee (who is white) is buying up land they think belongs to the ''people".

This. I did the same thing, but I could only afford a 900 square foot condo on a lake. Still, better to park my money there than have it sitting in the bank when the government starts printing $100,000 bills.

I imagine Zuck has a few hired guns on those grounds. Probably an understatement.

Local gov just needs to pass a 10% income tax and he’ll leave overnight.

I say give it back to the natives. they dont want us.

Silly peasants! He's nobility and above the law!

A member of the liberal elite!

Him and gates, soros etc are basically Bond villains at this point.

Out to destroy the world, psychopaths with billions pretending to be good

Can't say I blame Him. If I had his money I'd be buying land too.

I almost guarantee you nearly every one of those people bitching about it have a Facebook account

He really does need to be coc’ed.
He has sold out every American whether they have a Facebook account or not, several times over.

Not when his “neighbors” come after him in the dark.

He really is but he looks like a conservative next to that twitter commie twit.

Yes ma'am, I'd like to colonize a Mustard Whopper with cheese, an order of Mozzarella Sticks, and a 9 piece Chicken Fries.

Oh, and I'd also like to subjugate a large Diet Coke...

I hope someone does the needful.

Good, hopefully the natives will get restless....

I think Ted Turner holds that title.

Where else would they bitch?

If I had Billions, I would buy land too.

FMZ

He’s a piker.  Larry Ellison owns 87,000 acres in Hawaii.

Yeah, he has over 40 security contractors that work his residential properties currently....something tells me if he is considering this to be his consolidated location that they will have a contingency plan to deal with Moana and her retarded fucking chicken in a State where firearms are extremely difficult for most to attain...

Who really cares what he buys? It sounds like he's conserving the land, which should make them happy.

It's not like he's buying the land and planning to subdivide it into a bunch of mcmansions or start strip farming it.

This just sounds like class envy. I don't like him or Facebook either, but this seems to be a big none of my business.

Right, but that won’t stop him from telling you to change your lives for the betterment of his world.



If anyone in the world is racist it is native islanders in Hawaii.

Obama bought oceanfront too. They laugh in our faces.

If only they had a volcano to throw him in?