Mark Zuckerberg is expanding his secret Hawaiian compound. Part of it is located on the cemetery
When I was a kid Julian Ako will visit his great-grandfather’s home near Pilaa Beach in Kauai, Hawaii, where he and his family will collect edible fungi that grow on kukui trees and collect seaweed and fish from the reefs.
For about a decade, the land has been owned by the Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, who is building large compounds at an estimated cost of more than $300 million. Wired can now reveal that Zuckerberg’s property is located at the burial site: Arco’s great-grandmother and her brother were buried on the land.
After months of discussions with Zuckerberg representatives, Ako successfully entered the property and identified and registered the grave with the National Department of Land and Natural Resources, although he was unable to find the remains of other ancestors, he thought it could be buried on the property. In the report shared with Wired, state agencies also confirmed the “probability of other burial sites (based on oral testimony). The team at Zuckerberg Ranch coordinated visits to the grave of Ako’s family. Ako, who sits on the Oahu Island Funeral Commission, is worried about what might happen if further burial sites are found, as the extreme secrecy surrounding the compound is kept.
While NDA is not uncommon on billionaires’ construction projects, the scale of Zuckerberg’s compound has resulted in dozens of local workers being banned from sharing their work and their staff. “If all the workers signed these non-disclosure agreements, it was basically sworn in,” Ako said. “If they found out,” IWI– or bones – This will become a challenge as they put their work at risk, which will become public knowledge. ”
When asked about the funerals, Zuckerberg representative Brandi Hoffine Barr admitted that the estate had realized the family burial plot in 2015, and Hoffine Barr said they fenced and maintained the legacy. She added that their workers were subject to regulations that needed to report unintentional discovery from IWI.
Meanwhile, Zuckerberg quietly expanded his footprint on the island through a large amount of new land purchases. Earlier this year, Zuckerberg purchased 962 acres of Prime Ranchland from Hawaiian-Sunding LLC, an existing compound. The previously unreported purchase will increase his Kauai shares from about 1,400 to 2,300 acres, placing him among the state’s largest landowners.
Developments within the ranch continue as Zuckerberg spent millions of dollars to add several new weird buildings to the already huge compound. Zuckerberg is not far from the fishing spot in Ako and commissioned three other major buildings on the previously purchased land. They range in size from 7,820 to 11,152 square feet, 10 times larger than the average home in Hawaii – estimated cost for two people is between $35 and $4 million.
Unlike the luxurious mansions on the other side of the ranch, these new buildings have few interesting facilities, only a dedicated public space, a lanai larger than 1,300 square feet. Two of them seem to have designed as many bedrooms and bathrooms as possible, each with 16, queued up like a motel or boarding house. As always, security is tight – each new property comes with a camera, keyboard lock and motion detection device. Hoffine Barr describes the new buildings as short-term guest housing for families, friends and employees.
