As a child, Julian Ako would visit the house of his great-grandfather of his mother near Pilaa Beach in Kauai, Hawaii, where he and his family would collect edible fungi that would grow on Kukui trees and collect seaweed and fish from the reef.
For about a decade that Land Mark Zuckerberg of Meta CEO, which is building a huge connection at an estimated costs that are higher than $ 300 million. Wired can now reveal that the ownership of Zuckerberg is on top of a cemetery: the great -grandmother of AKO and her brother were buried on the land.
After months of discussions with a representative of Zuckerberg, AKO was successfully able to gain access to the property and to identify and register the graves at the Ministry of Land and Natural Resources, although he was unable to find remains of other ancestors that he thinks can be buried in the field. In a report that was shared with Wired, the state agency also confirmed “the probability (based on oral testimony) of extra cemeteries.” Visits to the graves of Ako's family are coordinated by the Zuckerberg Ranch team. AKO, who is in the Burial Council of Oahu Island, is worried about what could happen if further cemeteries are discovered because of the extreme secrecy around the compound.
Although NDAs are not unusual about billionaire construction projects, the scale of the Zuckerberg compound has led to dozens of local employees being forbidden to share what they do and for whom they work. “If all employees have signed these non -public making agreements, then they are in fact sworn,” says Ako. 'If they discover IWI– or bones – It will be a challenge to ever become public knowledge because they endanger their jobs. “
Asked about these funerals, recognized Zuckerberg representative Brandi Hoffine Barr that the estate had been informed of the family begrafenisplot in 2015, of which Hoffine Barr says they are fencing and maintaining. She adds that their employees are bound by regulations that report unintended discoveries from IWI.
In the meantime, Zuckerberg has quietly expanded his footprint on the island with a huge new land purchase, Wired can reveal. Earlier this year, Zuckerberg bought 962 hectare Prime Ranchland under a Hawaiian sounding LLC across the existing compound, which cost one person near the estimated sale more than $ 65 million. This purchase, previously not reported, will increase its Kauai Holdings from around 1,400 to more than 2,300 hectares – so that he places one of the largest landowners in the state.
The development in the ranch continues because Zuckerberg has spent millions on adding various new strange buildings to an already massive compound. Not far from the fishing tip of AKO, Zuckerberg has commissioned three large buildings on previously purchased country. According to planning documents released to Wired under a new request for public archives, they vary in size from 7,820 to 11,152 square foot – almost 10 times larger than the average house in Hawaii – and two are expected to cost between $ 3.5 and $ 4 million.
These new buildings differ from the lush mansions on the other side of the ranch, with few fun facilities and only one dedicated common space, a Lanai larger than 1,300 square foot. Two of them seem to be designed to house as many bedrooms and bathrooms as possible, and have 16 in between, set up as a Motel of Pension. As always, security is tight – with every new feature with cameras, key blocks and motion detection devices. Hoffine Barr described these new buildings as a short -term guest houses for family, friends and staff.
