Andy Ansin

The billionaire Ansin family owns Miami’s WSVN-Channel 7, the Fox affiliate famous for fast-paced, crime-heavy news coverage. Edmund and Sidney Ansin started the TV station’s parent company, Sunbeam Television, which counts Sunbeam Properties as a real estate arm.  Andy, Edmund’s son and Sidney’s grandson, now heads the family business, and seems to be taking a page on pace from the local news operation and superimposing it on the real estate side. 

He’s supercharging development with two megaprojects. In North Bay Village, wedged between Miami and Miami Beach, Sunbeam Properties plans a 7.3 million-square-foot project with nearly 2,000 residential units, a hotel and retail space. The project scored height approval in 2022 and will replace Channel 7’s decadeslong home studio, which is expected to move to Miramar later by 2027. 

The younger Ansin has charge of the 5.5 million-square-foot Miramar Park of Commerce as a legacy in the Sunbeam Portfolio, and now plans Park Miramar, with nearly 3,000 residential units, another hotel, and more than 500,000 square feet of retail, dining and office space, and 32 acres of parks. 

Yet, he could be pressing his bet with Normandy Shores, a residential Miami Beach neighborhood near North Bay Village where he apparently hopes to draft off his prior work. Ansin paid a combined $32.6 million in 2022 and 2023 for properties he could develop with luxury homes for the CEOs whose firms lease offices at Sunbeam’s North Bay Village.