Florida Mansion Claim to Greenness is Relative
Frank McKinney is a consummate salesman and he has a 15,000 square foot mansion to move.
Nestled among the palms on a 1.6-acre lot that strides a span from the Atlantic Ocean to the Inter-Coastal Waterway in Palm Beach, Florida, the asking price for his creation, which he calls Aqua Liana, is $24.3 million. That's down from its original asking price of $29 million.
Frank calls himself a "real estate artist," and thus his creations art. Calling a building art connotes an expectation of lasting appeal. Will anyone care about this house a hundred years from now? Check out this video and decide for yourself.
There is a slickness to this video. The property is actually not on the Inter-coastal Waterway. It's on the A1A Highway, across which is the ICW.
And its claim to greenness is relative in the extreme. Considering that the average home in the U.S. weighs in at less than 2,500 square feet, when Frank says Aqua Liana has the carbon footprint of a normal house one third its size, that's still more than twice as much as the average.
So if you're in the market for a 24-million-dollar mansion, keep these things in mind.
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