Meet Jeff Bezos’ New Neighbors On Miami’s Billionaire’s Bunker

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🗓️ 8 December 2023

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After nearly three decades in the Seattle area and some two years after stepping down as CEO of Seattle-based Amazon, Jeff Bezos is leaving the Pacific Northwest for Miami, he announced Thursday on Instagram. The world’s third richest person has purchased two homes on Indian Creek, Miami-Dade County’s luxury island community, in the past five months, snapping up a $68 million mansion in an off-market transaction in June and a $79 million pad right next door in October. Indian Creek is a 294-acre man-made barrier island with just 41 homes all on one road, Indian Creek Island Road. The population was last tallied at a total of just 84 people, which includes a host of high-profile residents and billionaire landowners. What is so attractive about this area of luxury real estate? Forbes wealth reporters Phoebe Liu and Giacomo Tognini meet on ‘Forbes Talks’ to break down the migration of the uber-rich to this secluded Miami island. Stay Connected Forbes newsletters: https://newsletters.editorial.forbes.com Forbes on Facebook: http://fb.com/forbes Forbes Video on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/forbes Forbes Video on Instagram: http://instagram.com/forbes More From Forbes: http://forbes.com Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Indian Creek is a 294 acre man-made barrier island with just 41 homes all on one road, Indian Creek Island Road.
0:08.0	The population is tallied at a total of just 84 people in the last census, which includes a host of high profile
0:14.8	residents and billionaire land owners.
0:17.0	Hi everybody, I'm Jack Magnini reporter here at Forbes.
0:24.0	Today I'm joined by my colleague Phoebe Lou
0:26.0	who recently penned an article about Indian Creek Island,
0:29.0	a luxurious billionaire bunker in Miami.
0:31.0	Hi Phoebe, welcome, how are you?
0:33.0	Hi, Jockeman. I'm good, thank you for having me.
0:35.0	So Forbes has published various articles about millionaires and billionaires on Indian Creek.
0:41.0	Can you tell me a little bit more about the article and sort of what prompted it?
0:45.0	Yeah, so I guess Indian Creek is a man-made island, as you said, off the coast of Miami.
0:50.5	It was originally, I guess, built in the early 1900s when they dredged the bay that it's
0:58.2	bordering and no one really lived there for a long time then during the Great Depression all these really
1:04.2	wealthy people from out of town were like let's go make a retreat for ourselves
1:09.2	when everyone's suffering on this island. So in the 1930s they kind of built it out with the 41
1:16.0	homes. They made like a country club and a golf course and incorporated it in
1:20.8	1939. So ever since then it's kind of been branded this exclusive getaway for
1:28.0	really wealthy people slash famous people kind of looking for a place to be, I guess, if that makes sense.
1:36.0	Yeah, so I guess the reason we decided to look into this again right now is because Amazon's Jeff Phasos or currently the world's third
1:46.4	richest person announced earlier this month that he was moving to Miami and had recently purchased two really expensive properties in this very
1:56.8	exclusive island. Can you kind of say more about why specifically this place?
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