Erik Rutter and David Weitz

Rutter and Weitz made their first known Miami investment in 2018. The real estate community paid little attention to the novices.

Their Oak Row Equities has since joined the highest echelons of Miami real estate. Partly financially backed by Weitz’s father, Perry Weitz, who made his wealth as an attorney for asbestos plaintiffs, Oak Row bought Aimco’s 4.25-acre bayfront Brickell assemblage for $520 million with OKO Group in late 2025. The property, home to an office building and an apartment building, can be developed with supertalls totaling more than 3.1 million square feet. 

In Edgewater, Oak Row is developing two apartment towers. It also scored approval for another rental high-rise in North Miami Beach, and it plans the First & Fifth apartment tower in downtown Miami. 

Oak Row opened Oasis Wynwood, an office-retail property with a courtyard, and Wynwood Plaza, an apartment and office project in Miami’s Arts District. The latter was built in partnership with L&L Holding Company, Shorenstein Properties and Marcelo Claure’s Claure Group. Bank OZK has financed Oak Row’s construction. A law firm co-led by the elder Weitz and Claure Group have leased offices at Wynwood Plaza, as has Amazon. Spotify is at Oasis Wynwood, and Equinox preleased at 2600 Biscayne. 

— Lidia Dinkova