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The Willy Wonka of US real estate

“When the definitive chronicle of this gilded era is written”, there’ll be a special place in it for Gil Dezer, Florida’s king of ultra-luxury towers, says the Financial Times, if only for his invention of “The Dezervator”. The elevator – a major feature of Dezer’s Porsche Design Tower on Sunny Isles Beach – whisks car and driver from the garage directly to their apartment

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