President Donald Trump’s future library and museum is one step closer to becoming a reality after the first renderings of the tower were revealed this week.
In a nearly two-minute-long video posted by one of the president’s sons, Eric Trump, on X, a skyscraper — bearing a striking resemblance to the One World Trade Center — emerges from the Miami skyline with the Trump name emblazoned near the top.
“This landmark on the water in Miami, Florida, will stand as a lasting testament to an amazing man, an amazing developer, and the greatest President our Nation has ever known. These images have never been seen by the public — until today,” Eric Trump, executive vice president of the Trump Organization, said in the Monday post on X.
The video displays renderings of visitors walking through a golden arch and underneath the presidential seal to enter the tower as well as re-creations of famous scenes from Trump’s two presidencies. Other renderings show a golden escalator, military aircraft, the Qatari-gifted Air Force One, an outdoor courtyard and a major indoor venue with views overlooking Biscayne Bay while a golden statue with the president’s lifted fist overlooks a stage.
It is unclear whether the images represent the final design plans for the tower. The renderings were created by Miami-based architecture firm Bermello Ajamil, according to the video. The firm didn't respond to a request to comment by CoStar News.
“The Trump Presidential Library will be one of the most magnificent buildings in the world and a living testament to the indelible impact President Trump has made on America and its people,” Davis Ingle, a White House spokesperson, told CoStar News in an email. Ingle did not confirm whether the plans represented the final design, and a timeline for the new tower was not provided.
The tower’s location has already been decided. Originally owned by Miami Dade College, state officials voted to deed the 2.63-acre parcel at 500 Biscayne Blvd. to the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation in September. The land is valued at approximately $67 million, per local property records.
The location sits at the edge of Miami’s downtown area zoned for supertall towers with a limit of 1,049 feet tall. The site is within walking distance of the supertall Waldorf Astoria Hotel and Residences that is under construction and the planned Delano Residences Miami, as well as next door to the Freedom Tower, where Cuban immigrants were processed throughout the 1960s following the Cuban Revolution.
While Eric Trump announced the location of the library last year, a judge temporarily blocked the sale of the land after a local activist sued Miami Dade College, alleging the state’s open government law had been violated. The case was dismissed in December. Property records were updated in February showing the new ownership under the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation.
Donald Trump, a native New Yorker, updated his residency to Florida in 2019. While the president spends much of his time at his Mar-a-Lago estate and private club in Palm Beach, Florida, the Trumps’ real estate holdings in the state also include the Trump National Doral Miami, a major golf resort in the Miami area that may see new towers of its own in the near future.