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Team LeFrak and Soffer to the rescue?

SoLe Mia would occupy a parcel where development has been stymied since the 1970s.
SoLe Mia would occupy a parcel where development has been stymied since the 1970s.

From the October issue: In March, shortly after Richard LeFrak bought out former partners Michael Swerdlow and Ezra Katz and brought in Aventura’s Soffer family to develop the 183-acre Biscayne Landing site in North Miami, the billionaire New York developer moved quickly to rechristen the project SoLē Mia, a play on the new owners’ names and Miami.

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“I wanted nothing to do with what the other guys did,” LeFrak said during an animated phone interview. “That’s why we don’t use the name.” [more]

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