Market

The Lowenstein Family

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

The Lowenstein family of successful entrepreneurs—father Alfredo, mother Diana, and children Diego, Paula, Flavia, and Carla—founded Lionstone Development, which began acquiring an impressive portfolio of properties on Miami Beach five decades ago. The hospitality division is behind the Ritz-Carlton South Beach and a slew of international properties, while the development arm is responsible for the …

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Leticia & Miky Grendene

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

The tale of how they met seems as if it was written for a romantic comedy script. (Cruising through South Beach on a Vespa, Italian real estate investor Miky mistook model Leticia for a friend of his and stopped. He quickly realized it wasn’t his friend but was so struck by Leticia’s beauty, he called …

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David Edelstein

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

A former taxi cab driver who made it big in the real estate industry, Edelstein’s golden investment is the Lincoln Road pedestrian mall, while his current portfolio includes two world-class buildings on New York’s Central Park West. This 2009 Haute Living Miami cover subject is the principal of Tristar Capital, which joined with developer Aby …

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Barton G. Weiss

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

He’s proudly flying his flag at the famous Versace Mansion, formerly known as Casa Casuarina but now dubbed The Villa by Barton G. His namesake company started in corporate event planning before opening the celebrity-studded Barton G. restaurant on Miami Beach, followed by Prelude by Barton G. at the Adrienne Arsht Center. The Villa by …

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Don & Jeff Soffer

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

Don opened his first shopping mall with his father when he was 24 years old. He then came down to South Florida and purchased almost 1,000 acres of marshland in northern Dade County in 1967, filled the area, and created what is today Aventura. His son Jeff followed in his footsteps into real estate and …

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